Pricing, client trust, and tool spend when AI reshapes how you deliver video.
Work out what an AI model actually costs per month from your token usage, and compare the major models side by side.
Compare a flat monthly chat subscription against the equivalent API usage and find the break-even point where one overtakes the other.
If your machine cut, transcript-based rough assembly, and auto-captions now save you a day per project, hourly billing quietly punishes you for it.
A short, honest AI-use note on your deliverables protects the client, protects you, and is quietly becoming a thing serious editors are expected to provide.
AI editing subscriptions creep up on you five and fifteen dollars at a time; a 30-minute quarterly review turns that drift back into deliberate spending.