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AI UGC Video Pricing Explained: What $50, $250, $400 and $1,500 Actually Buys
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Fixed-price content is unusual enough in this category that the reasonable first question is what the number covers. This is the line-by-line answer.
Why the prices are fixed at all
Almost everyone else in this category prices per video or per month. Per video looks transparent and isn't, because the number excludes the strategy and the rights. Per month looks predictable and isn't, because it commits you before you know whether the work is any good.
Fixed-scope packages are neither. You know the price, the deliverables and the date before you pay, and when it's delivered the arrangement is over unless you buy another one.
First batch — $50
One angle, two finished videos, three business days. Plus a one-page read on what we’d actually do with your account. No subscription, no card on file, no call. If you carry on, the $50 comes off your next package.
This exists to be risked rather than evaluated. At $212 average per freelance video (PPC.io), this is a quarter of one video's cost for two finished ones plus a written read on the account. It's covered at length in the first-batch post.
Test — $250
For brands finding out whether this works at all. Delivered in 5 business days.
- Content strategy for the batch
- 2 new angles
- 4 finished videos
- Delivered in 5 business days
- Email support
Growth — $400
For brands who want the full plan and enough volume to test it. Delivered in 5 business days.
- Full strategy and posting calendar
- 3 new angles
- 7 finished videos
- Delivered in 5 business days
- Built off your organic and paid results
- Shared Slack channel
Partner — $1,500
For brands running more than one product, or launching. Delivered in 10 business days.
- Everything in Growth
- 8 new angles
- 25 finished videos
- Up to 3 products covered
- Delivered in 10 business days
- Dedicated strategist
- Priority queue and rush requests
What the same deliverables cost elsewhere
Take the Growth package — three angles, seven finished videos, a posting calendar, and the results read that decides the next batch. Priced as freelance UGC at the survey average, seven videos alone is roughly $1,480 before usage rights, and usage rights add 30–75% (chanceecom). Strategy and the calendar are not included at any price — that's not what a creator is selling.
Priced as an agency retainer, you're into four figures a month with a minimum term, and the thinking is bundled with an account team you're also paying for.
This is not an argument that we're better than either. It's an argument that the comparison people run — our price against a per-video rate — is comparing a program to a component.
Where the ceiling is, and why
$1,500 is the top of the list on purpose. Past it, what you need stops being a bigger checkbox and starts being a conversation — more products, a launch, a different cadence. That gets quoted rather than packaged. See the packages.
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One angle, two finished videos, three business days. $50, one-off, and you own every file.