$76.84 in generation costs. Here’s the bill.

$76.84 tracked generation costs / 2,674 tracked calls / 66% of spend goes to images

A finished Short looks like a minute of content. Its receipts tell a longer story: images I tried, lines I recorded again and characters I’m preparing for later episodes.

Images account for $50.55. Voice is $18.13, generated video $6.12, music $1.76 and text about $0.27. Images and voice take roughly 89% of the tracked budget.

A call is often just a line

There are 2,103 voice calls and 455 image calls in the record. Those aren’t finished videos. A call might produce a sentence, a new take or one visual. Counting calls as output would make the production look much bigger than it is.

All-time tracked costs, with logged charges and estimates shown separately.

Some costs also belong to preparation: a character, a channel’s artwork or a voice test that may serve several episodes. Dividing the full bill by the public video count would mix that setup work with episode production.

Inside You: visuals and narration around one explanation.

Farid & Fatima: reusable characters, dialogue and reactions.

What’s missing from this bill

$60.51 is logged in the receipts and $16.33 is estimated. My time, hosting and other subscriptions aren’t included. The next useful number is the cost of an accepted episode, including its retries. I don’t have that breakdown yet.

Sources: snapshot 25 Oct 2026 at 22:26, Brussels. Reports processed through 23 Oct 2026.