AI balance, costs and the launch limit

All paid Content Factory operations (ElevenLabs voice, HeyGen avatar, AI script, images and animation) are charged from your AI balance — the same one used by the recipe AI assistant. You can top it up on the AI balance page. If there are not enough funds, the video will not start — you will see a clear message. The cost of each video (voice, avatar, AI) is shown on its page; summaries by project and period are in “My finances” and “Statistics”. Pexels stock is free. For orientation: voicing a 6-minute clip costs roughly 5–8 kr. Launch limit (may be enabled by the administrator): no more than N videos per sliding window of M minutes per user — protection against endless or mistaken launches. When the limit is reached you will see in how many minutes the next one can be started. Autopilot is not restricted by this limit (it has its own protection — a pause after 3 failures). The queue is shared: rendering runs one video at a time, the rest wait their turn. The AI balance is MONEY (the real cost of the chosen mode: stock is cheap, avatar/studio cost more) — it is not the same as your tier\u2019s monthly minutes quota for finished video (see the \u201cTariffs and limits\u201d article and the \u201cMy limits\u201d section on the left) \u2014 these are two independent counters: even with a full AI balance a video will not be built if the monthly minutes quota is exhausted, and vice versa.