Editing Openai/69557275-0da8-8004-a03a-8eb02e10a61f (section)

===== Your kid asks for a custom video: “Make our dog a knight fighting a dragon.” =====

Your AI replies:

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Ten seconds is $1–$5.
Two minutes is $12–$60.
A two-hour bespoke movie at $0.50/sec is $3,600. OpenAI Platform<ref>{{cite web|title=OpenAI Platform|url=https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing|publisher=OpenAI Platform|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>

Now zoom out:
* Free tier: you get intelligence, but you wait and you get limits. ChatGPT<ref>{{cite web|title=ChatGPT|url=https://chatgpt.com/pricing/|publisher=chatgpt.com|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $20/month tier: you stop feeling rationed. Reuters<ref>{{cite web|title=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-projected-least-220-million-people-will-pay-chatgpt-by-2030-information-2025-11-26/|publisher=reuters.com|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $200/month tier: you live in “maximum” mode. Reuters<ref>{{cite web|title=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-projected-least-220-million-people-will-pay-chatgpt-by-2030-information-2025-11-26/|publisher=reuters.com|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $20,000/year tier (this is the real jump): you’re basically renting a serious chunk of GPU time. At ~$2–$4 per H100 GPU-hour, one always-on H100 is roughly $17.5k–$35k/year. IntuitionLabs<ref>{{cite web|title=IntuitionLabs|url=https://intuitionlabs.ai/pdfs/h100-rental-prices-a-cloud-cost-comparison-nov-2025.pdf|publisher=intuitionlabs.ai|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $200,000/year tier: you have a small cluster (think ~8 H100s worth of always-on capacity), i.e., a personal studio. IntuitionLabs<ref>{{cite web|title=IntuitionLabs|url=https://intuitionlabs.ai/pdfs/h100-rental-prices-a-cloud-cost-comparison-nov-2025.pdf|publisher=intuitionlabs.ai|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>

Outer rings: compute becomes a coveted good because it buys agency: faster models, more memory, richer worlds, longer context, better video, more autonomous tasks. People start talking about it like water pressure:
* “Run a cheap pass first.”
* “Don’t burn Pro minutes on a joke.”
* “Save the 4K tier for family movie night.”
* “I’m on a cluster plan—send me the big file.”