A fifteen-second vertical ad — three five-second standard clips, one speech transition, a music track from the library, and a 1080p render — comes to 2,285,550 tokens at the base rate. That's under seven dollars with the Starter Pack, about three with the 18-million Power Pack, and less than half of a Basic plan's monthly allowance.
Every price comes from the Lodos token table and the pricing page, verified on 2 September 2026. The steps were run one by one in Yeşilçam Studios the same day.
Why fifteen seconds and why three clips?
Fifteen seconds is a format limit. On Google Ads the ad format is set by duration — bumper ads run up to 6 seconds, standard skippable ads between 7 and 15, and 16 to 30 seconds moves the video into a connected-TV format. On TikTok the recommended placement is vertical 9:16, 540 by 960 pixels and up, with square and landscape also accepted.
Three clips is arithmetic. Draft and Standard produce five or ten seconds, so fifteen is either three fives or one ten plus one five. The Cinema tiers produce four, six, or eight, and no combination of even numbers reaches fifteen — the Cinema version falls to fourteen or sixteen.
The recipe, step by step
- The look is locked in stills. Three draft images at 29,750 tokens each settle the product, the light, and the framing without paying for any clip. The approved still then opens the clip as the source with Pick from library.
- Three beats are generated. Hook, product, offer. Each five-second standard clip is 665,000 tokens. 9:16 is chosen before the first clip, because the ratio is baked into the shot and a 16:9 version later means three more generations.
- Audio is added. In Flow Studio each scene has a Speak window with a list of forty voices — English and Turkish among them — and a speech field capped at 500 characters. One transition is 175,000 tokens at the base rate. The Speech ready shot switch in Create frames the character for this: a forward-facing face and a closed mouth.
- Music is chosen. Opening a track from the audio library is 1,000 tokens. Generating a track is 122,500, and Flow Studio's music switch takes a description of the score — in its own example, tense strings and a slow tempo. For an ad, the library costs less than one percent of a generated track.
- The offer goes on the text lane. Cinema Studio has a text-and-graphics lane and a watermark control. Prices, names, and the call to action belong there, not inside the generation, and the token table lists no charge for them.
- It's merged and rendered. The merge transition is 24,500 tokens, the 1080p render 800. The music lane ducks on its own while speech plays, and because transitions and the mix are applied at render, it's worth taking a 400-token 720p check copy before the master.
What does the plan change?
- Pro, $99, 15,000,000 tokens a month and a 20 percent discount on every transaction. The ad is 1,828,440 tokens, so eight ads fit in a month.
- Basic, $30, 5,000,000 tokens a month, base rate. Two ads a month, with 428,900 tokens left over.
- Standard, $0, 250,000 tokens a month, 30 percent above the base rate. The ad is 2,971,215 tokens, and free users can buy only the one-million Starter Pack at $6 — so one ad is three packs, $18.
Where the recipe stops
Here's the limit: the ad exists in a single aspect ratio. A 16:9 cut for in-stream placement is three new generations, another 1,995,000 tokens, because cropping isn't a rescue plan. The timeline renders at 30 fps only. And the Speak window attaches speech to a single scene, so a voice flowing under all three beats isn't one setting — it's a 175,000-token transition per speaking scene.
The product has to come from somewhere too. A real product photo enters as the source with Upload image — the image-to-video or text-to-video article covers this — and a product described only in words is a slightly different product in each of the three clips.
FAQ
Can I make the ad silent? Yes. The speech transition is dropped and the message goes on the text lane. The bill falls to 2,110,550 tokens at the base rate.
Is the draft tier enough for an ad? Draft clips are 490,000 tokens each, which brings the visuals to 1,470,000 and the ad to 1,760,550 tokens. Draft is the tier where the three beats are tested; when to move up for the final shot is covered in the quality-tier guide.
How much does the Cinema version cost? Cinema clips are four, six, or eight seconds, and fifteen can't be built from even numbers. Three six-second Cinema clips give eighteen seconds with 3,150,000 tokens of visuals before audio, music, and render.
