Arcads pricing in 2026, and what one ad costs
Arcads charges $110 a month and up, bills its AI actors by the started minute, and hides its prices behind a signup, so the number that matters is what your ad length costs.
Arcads does not publish its prices. Its pricing page answered 404 when we checked on 22 September 2026, and when we searched "arcads pricing" two days earlier, all nine results were pages written by other small AI video tools. Those pages disagree with each other, mostly because Arcads changed how it bills between June and July of this year, and a few of them never caught up.
Arcads sells AI-generated User Generated Content: short vertical ads in which an AI actor talks to the camera the way a customer would. We build the same kind of product, so read this page knowing where it comes from. Our own price is on it, stated plainly, and so is the case where Arcads is the better buy.
We read Arcads' homepage, its terms in force since 21 August 2026 and the two most detailed ranking pages, and came away with one opinion. The plan price matters less than the unit Arcads bills in, because the unit decides what a 15 second ad costs you.
How much does Arcads cost?
Arcads costs $110 a month on Starter, $220 on Creator and $550 on Pro, with bigger volumes quoted by email. Those are list prices as reported by wireflow.ai on 14 July 2026 and confirmed by shhots.ai on 9 August 2026, because Arcads itself shows them only inside the app.
Each plan is a monthly bucket of credits: 8,000 on Starter, 16,000 on Creator, 40,000 on Pro. Both pages report the same price per credit on every tier, so a bigger plan buys more room and more features rather than cheaper videos. Starter leaves out captions and background removal, Creator adds them, and Pro adds API access and actor cloning.
Two discounts float around. Several pages report a 30 percent monthly promotion that puts Starter at $77, Creator at $154 and Pro at $385, and shhots flags it as unverified by Arcads. Annual billing is reported at 20 percent off list, which makes Starter $88 a month paid yearly.
If you have read "$110 for 10 videos" somewhere, that is the older scheme. eesel.ai, last edited on 17 June 2026, still describes one credit per video. The per-minute credit rates only show up in pages written from July onward, which is the simplest explanation for why the ranking pages contradict each other.
Why does Arcads hide its prices?
Arcads has not said why, but its terms route every standard offer through the app, so the prices appear only after you sign up. Section 7.1 of the terms in force since 21 August 2026 states that the details of a standard offer "will be shown directly on the Platform", and arcads.ai/pricing returned a 404 on 22 September.
Every Arcads number on this page, and on every page that ranks for the query, is therefore second-hand. Check the figure inside the app before you enter a card.
One detail the ranking pages have missed. Every one of them says Arcads has no free trial, and the Arcads homepage we loaded on 22 September carries the line "Free trial available" above its headline. The terms explain the likely shape of it: a section on Promotional Credits, which expire at the end of their usage period, work only on the models and features the offer names, and have no cash value. So expect a trial made of limited credits rather than a free plan, and read the offer conditions before you rely on it!
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What does a 15 second ad cost on Arcads?
About $11 on Starter, the same as a 60 second ad, because Arcads bills talking actors by the minute and rounds up. wireflow and shhots both report the rate as 800 credits per minute, per actor, and at $110 for 8,000 credits that is $11 for any single-actor video up to a minute long.
A 15 second ad costs $11. A 30 second ad costs $11. A 90 second ad costs $22, and a two-actor dialogue of any length under a minute also costs $22, since the rate applies per actor. Captions add 80 credits more, and Starter cannot add them at all.
Most paid social ads are nowhere near a minute. TikTok's own creative guidance for advertisers recommends 21 to 34 seconds for in-feed ads, and hook tests run on shorter cuts still. Five 15 second hook variants on Arcads use 4,000 credits, half of the Starter month, for 75 seconds of finished video.
That is our main reservation about the price, and it has nothing to do with the dollar amount. A per-minute unit rewards the one long ad and charges full price for the many short ones, while the way paid social actually gets tested runs the other way. If you plan to buy Arcads, price your month by counting the ads you will make, never by counting the seconds!
How does Go Rocket price the same ad?
We charge by the 15 seconds: $9 for your first video, $19 for a single video after that, or $99 a month for 10 credits, where one credit is one 15 second video in one language. A 30 second video is 2 credits and a 60 second one is 4, as our pricing page stated when we read it on 22 September 2026.
The unit follows the work. Our pipeline generates a video in 15 second segments, one take each, so a 15 second ad is one unit of work and one credit, and a longer one is simply more segments. Each language version of the same ad is one more credit.
Three other differences sit outside the per-video number. You can buy one video without a subscription, so the smallest possible spend is one video and no monthly commitment. You see a free preview in about a minute before you pay anything. And failed generations are refunded automatically, where shhots reports that on Arcads a failed render uses its credits unless support accepts it as a technical fault within 30 days.
The honest arithmetic cuts both ways. If your ads run a full minute and you make a lot of them every month, Arcads' minute is the better unit, and you should buy it.
What do the Arcads terms say about credits and cancelling?
Unused credits disappear at the end of each period, the plan renews itself, and you have to cancel at least 72 hours before the period ends. All three rules are in the terms in force since 21 August 2026, which name the operator as FRESHR, a French simplified joint-stock company.
The credit rule is explicit: credits you have not used at the end of the period "will be lost and cannot be carried forward or refunded", and the same applies when you downgrade or terminate. If you run out of credits on a standard plan, the terms give you two choices, wait for the renewal or ask for a customized offer, and the API is available only on a customized offer.
The terms also cover what you may do with the finished video. The licence is non-exclusive and runs for the legal duration of the rights, so a video you made stays usable after you cancel. Arcads says another client could produce a similar or identical video from the same script and actor. Edits are limited to a listed set such as cropping, music, subtitles and b-roll, anything else needs written approval, and the video may not be fed into other AI tools that change the image or the voice.
For the disclosure rules that apply to AI presenters in ads, see are UGC ads legal.
When is a human creator still worth $500?
When the ad works because a real person really used the product, and says so. An AI actor on any platform, ours included, cannot truthfully claim three months of use, a result on their own skin or a problem the product solved for them.
We enforce that line in our own software. The script validator that checks every ad we generate rejects invented usage history and measurable personal results, because an AI presenter saying "I lost four kilos" is a fabricated testimonial. That sentence is exactly the one a genuine customer with a camera can say, and the brands that need it should pay for it.
Paying for it means rates in the hundreds. Most working creators charge $150 to $300 for one vertical video, and usage rights for running it as a paid ad often cost as much again, which is how a finished ad reaches $500. Our UGC rates guide breaks the number down. For skincare, supplements, fitness and anything else where the viewer is buying a before and after, that money is well spent.
A software product or a first message test rarely needs a lived history, only a clear person explaining a clear thing. Our guide to AI UGC covers what the research says about generated ads.
Which Arcads alternative fits which buyer?
Three alternatives fit three different buyers, and Arcads stays the right choice for a fourth: the performance team that ships many minute-long ads a month and wants the widest choice of actors.
Creatify suits the marketer who wants to test before paying. Its pricing page, read on 22 September 2026, lists a free plan with 10 credits a month, enough for two watermarked video ads, then Starter at $39 a month for 100 credits and Pro at $99 a month.
HeyGen suits longer talking videos, such as explainers, onboarding and training. Its pricing page, read the same day, lists a free plan with three videos a month up to one minute each, and Creator at $29 a month with videos up to 30 minutes.
Go Rocket suits the software founder with one page and no film crew. You paste the URL, we write the script from the page, an AI presenter delivers it in any of 21 languages. The first video is $9, and you see a free preview before you pay.
Whichever you pick, count the ads you will make next month and their length, then price that. If it is one short ad for a product with a web page, paste your page and watch the preview before you decide!
FAQ
No, Arcads is a paid subscription starting at $110 a month at list price, with no free plan. Its homepage advertised a free trial on 22 September 2026, and its terms describe promotional credits that expire and cover only named models and features.
About $11 for a single-actor video up to one minute on the Starter plan, because talking actors are billed at 800 credits per started minute. A 15 second ad and a 60 second ad therefore cost the same.
Yes, but only on a customized offer, according to Arcads' terms in force since 21 August 2026. The standard Starter and Creator plans do not include API access.
Yes, Arcads is run by FRESHR, a French simplified joint-stock company, and publishes full terms and conditions on arcads.ai. Read the renewal clause before subscribing: the plan renews itself and must be cancelled at least 72 hours before the period ends.
It is worth it for teams that make many ads close to a minute long and want a large actor library. For short ads or a single video, a tool that bills by the 15 seconds or sells one video without a subscription usually costs less.