A cheap music video for independent artists

What you get for the money

"Cheap" only matters if the result is usable. Every paid tier makes a video for the whole song, exported at 1080p without a watermark, with word-by-word karaoke lyrics. The difference between tiers is how much moves and how polished the shots are. Priced by song length: Standard from $5, Plus from $19, Premium from $39. Standard / Plus / Premium: a 2-minute song $5 / $20 / $39, a 4-minute song $14 / $30 / $69, a 6-minute song $21 / $39 / $100. Pro has its own length table from $100. Premium for songs over 10 minutes is on request — write to us from the Contact page. You see the exact price for your song before you pay.

• Standard (from $5) — the full song with a scene for every lyric line, full motion, word-by-word karaoke lyrics, 1080p without a watermark.
• Plus (from $19) — everything in Standard (full motion, a scene for every lyric line, word-by-word karaoke lyrics, 1080p without a watermark), plus your singer lip-syncing the chorus with your vocals (2–3 shots).
• Premium (from $39) — full motion with the best image and motion models, extra quality checks on every shot, and real lip-sync on up to 12 singing shots.

Why it costs this little

A traditional video is expensive because people spend days on it: a director, a camera operator, a location, an editor, a colourist. Clipbeat replaces the shoot with AI image and video models and replaces most of the editing with automation that reads your song — lyrics, timing and beats — so there is no crew to pay.

The price is fixed per video before you pay, so you know the cost up front. We set it so each tier covers the AI models it uses on a song of that length, which is why longer songs and higher tiers cost more instead of quietly getting worse.

Which tier to choose on a tight budget

Start with Standard ($5) if you need a video for a release date and want to spend as little as possible: every lyric line still gets its own scene, in full motion. Pick Plus ($19) if you want your singer lip-syncing the chorus to your vocals. Pick Premium ($39) only if the singer is on screen a lot, because its main extra is real lip-sync on the singing shots.

A practical approach many artists use: make the full video once, then cut the chorus out as a vertical clip for TikTok, Reels and Shorts from the same project. One payment, several posts.

What comes before you pay and what does not

Before you pay: uploading your song, the lyric transcription and the brief. Paid: a short lip-synced preview of your chorus comes with the $5 credit pack — after it you see the full scene-by-scene plan — and the finished AI video is from $5. If you would rather build the video yourself from your own photos and clips in the editor, placing your own media costs nothing and any credit pack (from $5, one-time) unlocks 1080p without the watermark.

An example at Premium quality

"Move The Street" is an afrobeats / afro-pop demo song, 1:35 long, made into 12 scenes on Premium ($39). Watch it on this page to see the upper end of what the tiers produce; Standard and Plus use the same scene plan with less motion and no lip-sync.

What to watch out for with cheap video tools

Low prices can hide limits. Before you pay anywhere, check these:

• Full song or only a short clip? Clipbeat covers the whole song.
• Watermark or clean export? Paid videos are 1080p without a watermark.
• Subscription or one-time? Clipbeat is one-time per video; nothing renews.
• Do the scenes follow your lyrics, or is it generic footage? Here every lyric line has its own scene.
• Can you edit the result? Every scene stays editable on the Studio timeline.