Usage-based AI by QuickStream AI
Put AI to work across your entire catalog.
Everything the platform can do with your content automatically — captions, translations, chapters, artwork, highlight clips and more — priced in a single pool of credits you buy once and draw down as you use it.
At a glance
- One credit balance for every AI feature
- From 2 credits per hour of content
- Calculated per minute — pay for what you process
- No monthly AI subscription or minimum commitment
- Credits never expire
- Failed jobs are never charged
Every AI feature, one credit balance.
Switch on captions alone, or run the full set — every feature is independent, and you are only charged for what you turn on.
Captions & languages
4 features
2 credits per hour
AI captions
A full subtitle track generated from the spoken audio, time-aligned and ready to publish. Captions are the single highest-impact thing you can add to a catalogue: they make content watchable with the sound off, searchable inside your app, and accessible to viewers who need them.
Typical use: Run on everything, automatically, at ingest.
3 credits per hour
Caption clean-up
Takes an existing caption track and tidies it — corrections, formatting, and optional profanity filtering that masks or removes flagged language. Lets you publish one edit of a title for general audiences and another for a stricter market without recaptioning.
Typical use: Preparing a family-safe or broadcast-compliant version.
6 credits per hour, per language
Subtitle translation
Translates an existing caption track into another language, preserving timing. Each language is charged separately, so you control exactly how far a title travels. Adding two or three languages to a catalogue is routinely the cheapest way to open a new market — no re-shoot, no voice work, no new masters.
Typical use: Three languages on hero titles, one on the long tail.
Metadata & discovery
3 features
3 credits per hour
Summarization
Writes a synopsis of what the asset actually contains, along with descriptive tags. Fills in the metadata nobody has time to write by hand — the single biggest cause of thin, unsearchable catalogue pages — and gives your editorial team a draft to work from instead of a blank field.
Typical use: Populating catalogue pages and improving in-app search.
5 credits per hour
Chapter generation
Splits a title into named chapters with timestamps, so viewers can jump straight to the part they want. Chapters measurably improve completion rates on longer content and turn a two-hour file into something people will return to rather than restart.
Typical use: Films, documentaries, interviews, lectures and long episodes.
5 credits per hour
Smart thumbnails
Scans the whole title and ranks the frames that work hardest as artwork — faces, action, clean composition — instead of grabbing an arbitrary frame. Artwork is the main thing standing between a title and a click, and this replaces a slow manual job with a shortlist your team picks from.
Typical use: Every new title, and refreshing artwork on an underperforming back catalogue.
Clips & promotion
2 features
10 credits per hour
Auto-clipping & highlights
Finds the strongest moments in a title and cuts them into short, self-contained clips sized for social feeds and in-app discovery. One long title becomes a month of promotional material, without an editor scrubbing a timeline.
Typical use: Social promotion, trailers, in-app teaser rails.
2 credits per clip
Clip export (MP4)
Renders a selected clip as a downloadable MP4 for use off-platform — ad campaigns, partner channels, press kits. Clips played inside your own apps need no export and cost nothing extra.
Typical use: Handing assets to a social or marketing team.
Analysis & compliance
3 features
8 credits per hour
Scene & shot detection
Marks every scene and camera-shot boundary across a title. This is the structural layer that makes precise editing, frame-accurate clipping and automated ad-break placement possible — instead of guessing where a break won’t interrupt a line of dialogue.
Typical use: Ad-break planning on long-form, and precision clipping.
8 credits per hour
Content moderation
Samples the footage throughout and flags material that may breach your content policy or a platform’s store rules, with timestamps so a reviewer can go straight to it. Turns moderation from watching everything into checking a short list.
Typical use: User-generated or licensed-in content, and app-store compliance.
3 credits per hour
Engagement insights
Scores which parts of a title are most likely to hold attention, before it is published. Useful for choosing what to clip, where to place a break, and which titles deserve a promotional push.
Typical use: Deciding where to invest promotion.
Priced separately
2 more
Quoted per project
AI dubbing
A full spoken-language track in a new language — quoted per project, as scope varies widely with voice casting and review.
In development
Conversational Video Q&A
Lets viewers ask questions about what they are watching. In development, and will be added to the rate card on release.
How credits work
There is one currency for every AI feature. You buy a pack of credits, switch on the features you want, and credits are deducted as content is processed. There is no monthly AI subscription, no per-feature licence and no minimum commitment.
Credits are quoted per hour of content and calculated per minute, so you pay for the length of what you actually process — a 12-minute episode costs a fifth of what an hour costs.
Credits never expire. They sit in your balance until you use them, so a quiet month costs you nothing.
Before any job starts, the platform checks the length of the asset and your remaining balance. If there aren’t enough credits, the job doesn’t run — you can never be billed for more than you hold.
Every feature is independent. Switch on captions alone, or run the full set — you are only charged for what you turn on.
Failed jobs are never charged. If processing doesn’t complete, no credits are deducted.
Content under five minutes is calculated as five minutes, and each feature deducts a minimum of one credit per asset.
Credit packs
Packs are a one-time purchase. Buy more whenever you need them — larger packs carry a better rate, and the rate is fixed at the moment you buy.
STARTER
$100
500 credits
$0.200 per credit
GROWTH
Save 5%
$475
2,500 credits
$0.190 per credit
SCALE
Save 10%
$1,800
10,000 credits
$0.180 per credit
ENTERPRISE
Save 15%
$8,500
50,000 credits
$0.170 per credit
Mix and match freely. Many customers buy a large pack to process an existing catalogue, then top up with smaller packs to cover new releases.
Rate card
What each feature costs, per hour of content processed.
Two further capabilities are priced separately. AI dubbing — a full spoken-language track in a new language — is quoted per project, as scope varies widely with voice casting and review. Conversational Video Q&A, which lets viewers ask questions about what they are watching, is in development and will be added to this card on release.
| AI feature | Credits | Charged |
|---|---|---|
| AI captions | 2 | per hour |
| Summarization | 3 | per hour |
| Caption clean-up | 3 | per hour |
| Engagement insights | 3 | per hour |
| Chapter generation | 5 | per hour |
| Smart thumbnails | 5 | per hour |
| Subtitle translation | 6 | per hour, per language |
| Premium captions | 6 | per hour |
| Content moderation | 8 | per hour |
| Scene & shot detection | 8 | per hour |
| Auto-clipping & highlights | 10 | per hour |
| Clip export (MP4) | 2 | per clip |
What it costs in practice
Three real-world catalogues, from a small short-form slate to a full film library.
Example 1
Short-form vertical drama — 60 episodes a month
A vertical drama studio publishing around 60 new episodes a month, each roughly three minutes. Every episode gets captions, a synopsis and artwork automatically; the strongest twenty are cut into social clips.
A Starter pack at $100 covers two and a half months — about $40 a month, or 67 cents per episode fully processed.
| What runs each month | Volume | Credits each | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI captions | 60 episodes | 1 | 60 |
| Summarization | 60 episodes | 1 | 60 |
| Smart thumbnails | 60 episodes | 1 | 60 |
| Auto-clipping for social | 20 episodes | 1 | 20 |
| Monthly total | 200 credits |
Example 2
Regional streaming service — 30 episodes a month
A service publishing around 30 half-hour episodes a month. Everything gets captions, synopsis, chapters and artwork; the ten strongest titles are translated into two languages and cut into highlight clips.
A Growth pack at $475 covers more than six months — about $72 a month. A complete AI pass on a half-hour episode works out at $1.71.
| What runs each month | Volume | Credits each | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI captions | 30 episodes | 1 | 30 |
| Summarization | 30 episodes | 2 | 60 |
| Chapter generation | 30 episodes | 3 | 90 |
| Smart thumbnails | 30 episodes | 3 | 90 |
| Subtitle translation (2 languages) | 10 episodes | 6 | 60 |
| Auto-clipping & highlights | 10 episodes | 5 | 50 |
| Monthly total | 380 credits |
Example 3
Film library — 300 titles, plus new releases
A film service bringing a 300-title library onto the platform, averaging around 100 minutes a title, then adding eight new films a month. Every film gets the complete treatment — captions, synopsis, chapters, artwork, scene data, moderation, highlight clips and three subtitle languages.
One Enterprise pack at $8,500 processes the entire 300-film library and covers nearly two years of new releases — $17.34 per film for a complete AI treatment in four languages.
| What runs on each film | Credits | Running total |
|---|---|---|
| AI captions | 4 | 4 |
| Summarization | 5 | 9 |
| Chapter generation | 9 | 18 |
| Smart thumbnails | 9 | 27 |
| Scene & shot detection | 14 | 41 |
| Content moderation | 14 | 55 |
| Auto-clipping & highlights | 17 | 72 |
| Subtitle translation — 3 languages | 30 | 102 |
| Full treatment, one film | 102 credits |
Across the whole library, and the new releases that follow:
| One Enterprise pack — 50,000 credits | Credits | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Onboarding 300 films | 30,600 | $5,202 |
| New releases — 8 films a month, 23 months | 19,400 | $3,298 |
| Total | 50,000 | $8,500 |
Good to know
- Credits are deducted only when a job runs successfully. Cancelled and failed jobs cost nothing.
- Your balance, consumption by feature and a full job history are visible in the CMS at any time.
- Credits apply across your whole catalogue and every front-end platform — web, mobile and TV apps draw on the same balance.
- Features can be enabled and disabled per title, per collection, or set to run automatically on everything you ingest.
- Larger commitments and annual arrangements are available. Talk to us about volumes beyond the Enterprise pack.
Credit rates per feature may be adjusted on 30 days’ notice. The price you pay per credit is fixed at the moment of purchase, and credits already in your balance are never repriced.
See It Running Before You Commit
Thirty minutes with the team behind the platform — not a sales deck. Bring your content, your target devices and your timeline, and leave knowing exactly what your launch looks like.
- A live walkthrough of the platform and the admin behind it
- A launch plan mapped to your catalog and your target platforms
- Straight answers on timeline, cost, and what we would not recommend
