Avatar V price silently jumped from 20 to 70 credits/min? Support has no ETA. What is everyone doing?
Has anyone else noticed their Avatar V generations suddenly burning through credits like crazy? Over the last couple of days, it went from the standard 20 credits/min all the way to 70 credits/min with zero announcement or warning. No extra toggles, no expressive motion, nothing.
I messaged support to ask what was going on and got the classic non-answer:
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They threw 150 "courtesy credits" at me (which doesn't even cover a single 3-minute video at this rate) and basically said they have no ETA for a fix, just that "hopefully" it goes back to normal.
The math on this is completely broken now. If you're doing something like 30 short 5-minute videos a month (150 mins total), you're looking at 10,500 credits. That easily puts you in the $500–$600+/month range.
At $600 a month, what’s even the point of an AI avatar? You can literally jump on Upwork or Fiverr and hire a real UGC creator or spokesperson from Colombia or Eastern Europe to read your script on camera. You get zero weird AI artifacts, natural body language, and you don't have to stress about TikTok or YouTube flagging your account for synthetic content.
Is this happening across everyone's dashboard or just specific accounts? For those running serious volume, what are you guys planning to do if this stays? Dropping back to Avatar III/IV, setting up open-source stuff (EchoMimic/LatentSync on RunPod), or just hiring actual people?