VideoStarPricing

Get your video API key

VideoStar generates video and images on your own MiniMax account, so you pay published rates with no markup. This takes about five minutes, once.

Why MiniMax? One key covers both the video model and the storyboard image model used by this app, and sign-up works in most regions with just an email. Support for BytePlus (Seedance) and Kling is coming soon.
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    Create a MiniMax account

    Go to platform.minimax.io (the international platform) and sign up with your email or Google account. A personal account is enough — no company details are required.

    Screenshot: MiniMax sign-up screen
  2. 2

    Top up a small balance

    MiniMax is pay-as-you-go: open Billing in the console and add a small balance — $10 is plenty to start. As a reference, one 768P video clip costs roughly $0.05–0.10 per second, so a full short film lands in the $1–3 range.

    Screenshot: MiniMax billing / top-up page
  3. 3

    Create an API key

    In the console, open API Keys and create one. Copy it immediately — the full value is only shown once.

    Screenshot: MiniMax API key creation dialog
  4. 4

    Paste it into VideoStar

    Open Settings → API Keys, paste the key under MiniMax Hailuo, and save. This one key covers both video (MiniMax-H3) and storyboard images — no second provider needed. It is encrypted before storage; afterwards you will only ever see its last four characters.

    Screenshot: VideoStar API key settings page
  5. 5

    Set a spending alert (recommended)

    In the MiniMax console, set a balance alert so you are notified before funds run low. This caps your exposure no matter what happens — a habit worth keeping with any API key you hand to a hosted tool.

Coming soon: other providers

These providers are on our roadmap — their key fields are visible in Settings but not yet accepting input.

BytePlus ModelArk (Seedance)

Sign up at console.byteplus.com and enable dreamina-seedance-2-0-mini (video) and seedream-5-0 (images) in ModelArk, region ap-southeast-1. Available in 190+ countries, but not in mainland China.

Kling Global

Available at app.klingai.com/global/dev . Note that Kling requires a separate API subscription — regular membership credits do not work with the API.

What happens to your key

  • · Encrypted before it is written to the database.
  • · Displayed to you only as its last four characters.
  • · Never written to application logs.
  • · Decrypted only to sign your own generation requests.
  • · Deleted immediately when you remove it — generation stops using it at once.

As with any hosted tool that calls an API for you, our server does handle the key in memory at request time. A spending alert in your provider console keeps your worst case bounded.