Updates that matter when you build

From 9 October 2026, both Vidu Q4 Preview endpoints cost about 17% less, the same per-second rates as Vidu's own list price.

Prices are per second of output, for vidu/q4-preview/image-to-video and vidu/q4-preview/reference-to-video.

• Nothing to change on your side. Requests, resolutions and durations are unchanged, and the estimate before you submit and the charge afterwards use the new rates. Sound on or off and the number of references still do not change the price.
• Vidu tightened image to video the same day. A request for an intimate scene between two adults, which came back only implied on 8 October, is now refused, and refused requests are not charged. Topless and consensual restraint still came through in our retest.

Lip sync (spicyapi/lip-sync-v1/lip-sync) now counts the seconds of the audio you send, not the seconds of the video it returns. The returned clip usually runs about half a second longer than the audio, and that extra time is no longer billed.

The rate is unchanged: $0.012 per second, rounded up to the whole second, with a 3-second minimum. A 4.5-second voice clip is now billed as 5 seconds, $0.06; counted on the returned clip, it could come to 6 seconds, $0.072. Your requests stay the same, and the same rule applies in Spicy Studio.

From 23 September 2026, both Wan 2.2 LoRA image-to-video endpoints are 15% off, with no end date set.

Prices are per second of output.

• Nothing to change on your side. The discount is applied when a request is priced, so the estimate before you submit, the charge afterwards and the price cards all show the new figure. Resolutions, durations, content behaviour and request shape are unchanged.
• This gives back most of the 20 September increase. The condition behind that increase has since moved in our favour, and we are passing it on. At $0.0204 the price is still 2% above where it was before the increase, not below it.
• No end date is set. If that ever changes, the date will appear on the price card.

Since 20 September 2026, both Wan 2.2 LoRA image-to-video endpoints cost 20% more per second of output.

Nothing else about them changed: same resolutions, same durations, same content behaviour, same request shape.

Why we are telling you rather than letting you find it on the invoice. These two were priced against an assumption that turned out not to hold for them specifically, and we corrected it rather than keep a price we cannot sustain. A rate that quietly stops covering its own cost does not stay available for long, and an endpoint that disappears is worse for you than one that costs 20% more.

One visible side effect: the Spicy endpoint no longer displays a struck-through reference price. We show one only where we are genuinely below the reference, and at $0.024 we no longer are. The reference price itself did not move — we did.