How much does Genjutsu cost, really?

The plans at a glance

• Lite - $19 a month, 100 credits: the first recast on your own clip.
• Starter - $99 a month, 600 credits: creators recasting regularly; $89 per month effective on annual billing.
• Standard - $199 a month, 1,500 credits: teams shipping a video every week; $169 per month effective on annual billing.
• Premium - $299 a month, 3,000 credits: studios running campaigns at scale; $249 per month effective on annual billing.
• Every tier includes both modes, reference clips from 3 to 30 seconds, up to 40 reference images per project, and watermark-free downloads. The difference is generation volume, not model access.

What a credit actually buys

Credits pay for generation, and the cost of a run is shown in the generator before you confirm it. Nothing is spent while you browse, prepare a clip, or set up references - credits are only consumed when a render starts.

Run cost scales with the work done, and clip length is the biggest lever. That is why the guides here push short test clips: they let you calibrate references and prompts at the lowest possible price before you commit to longer renders.

What drives your cost per finished video

• Clip length: a 3 to 6 second run is far cheaper than a 30 second one, and the best place to learn.
• Runs per keeper: strong references and one-change prompts are what keep the retry count down.
• Mode: recasting a whole scene and swapping a single element are different amounts of work.
• Series reuse: once a reference set and prompt pair is proven, every new clip in the series is a first-attempt run instead of an experiment.

Monthly or annual

Annual billing lowers the effective monthly price by roughly 15% on every tier - Starter drops to $89 per month effective, Standard to $169, Premium to $249 - and is billed once for the year. Monthly is the flexible option: subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled from billing settings at any time, with access continuing to the end of the period already paid for.

The practical rule: if you are still discovering the tool, start monthly on Lite; if recasting has become part of your regular production, annual billing on your current tier is the better rate.

The cheapest sensible path to your first recast

• Prepare for free: study the example pairs, pick a prompt from the library, and trim a clip down to a single clean take.
• Start on Lite and keep the first runs to 3 to 6 seconds, one change at a time.
• Review before rerunning. Fix one variable per attempt instead of changing the clip, references and prompt together.
• Upgrade only when your monthly runs consistently outgrow the credits - the model does not get better with the plan, you just generate more.

Is Higgsfield Genjutsu free?

No. Genjutsu runs on GPU time and every generation consumes credits, so there is no unlimited free tier and no free render. What is genuinely free: the example gallery, the prompt library, the guides, and signing in to preview what a run would cost.

If the free question is really about the watermark, the answer lives in the download guide: any active plan produces watermark-free files, from Lite upward.