Arcads Pricing 2026: Plans, Cost per Video, and Free Trial

This page splits what Arcads itself documents from what other sites report. Credit rates and the refund rules come from the Arcads help center. The monthly prices come from Wireflow’s July 14, 2026 pricing post and Shhots’ August 9, 2026 pricing post, both linked at the end. It is not based on a paid Arcads account. AdRoast competes with Arcads; where a talking-actor library is the whole job, Arcads is the better fit.

How much does Arcads cost?

Arcads sells credits, not a published video count. Wireflow (July 14, 2026) and Shhots (August 9, 2026) report the same three list prices and the same credit pools. Arcads’ refund article uses “8,000 credits” as the example of what a lower plan adds, which matches the Starter pool those posts describe. It does not state a dollar price.

Wireflow also reports a 30% discount on monthly plans, which would put Starter at $77, Creator at $154, and Pro at $385, and says annual billing (20% off list) is then the worse deal. Shhots says it could not verify either discount from Arcads and tells readers to treat $11 as the list cost per video. The discount may be gone by the time you sign up. The number on the checkout screen is the one that counts.

What does one Arcads video cost?

Arcads’ help center, in “How Are Credits Counted?”, prices a talking actor at 800 credits per minute, per actor, and says length is always rounded up. A 1-minute-45-second video is billed as two minutes. The same rule means a 15-second ad is billed as one minute.

Divide the reported Starter price by its credits: $110 / 8,000 = $0.01375 per credit. Creator and Pro land on the same rate if the reported prices are right, so upgrading does not make a video cheaper. It buys more credits and, on higher tiers, more features.

Credit rates in that table are from the Arcads help center. The dollar column is our math on the reported $110 plan, not a price Arcads prints. Two actors double a talking-actor video. Captions are a separate 80 credits. If Wireflow’s $77 discounted Starter is what you are shown, the same 800-credit video is about $7.70 instead of $11.

Starter’s 8,000 credits cover about 10 talking-actor minutes (8,000 / 800). Wireflow’s “up to 50 videos” is the marketing ceiling, and it only fits if those videos use cheaper models. Kling 3.0 starts at 176 credits. A product-showcase preset in the same help article is 800 credits, the same as a talking-actor minute.

Does Arcads have a free trial?

Arcads’ own refund policy describes one. If a 3-day trial ends and you have not cancelled, the saved card is charged for the Starter plan. The article says to cancel from Billing settings before the 72 hours are up. Credits used during the trial itself do not count as subscription credits when they decide a refund.

There is also a 24-hour change-of-mind refund: within 24 hours of your first charge, with zero credits used, once per account. A separate rule refunds a full period if you used zero generation credits and you ask within 30 days. Used credits are not refunded as cash, including when you simply dislike the video. Failed generations may get credits back, not money. Wireflow’s July post says Arcads has no free trial. The help article is newer, and the signup screen is what applies to your account.

One thing on Arcads is free without a plan. The credit article says Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 40 each include 100 images a day, and those do not consume paid credits inside that daily limit. That is images, not video.

Who should pay for Arcads?

The $11 figure is fair when the ad really runs close to a minute and you will use the actor library. It is a poor rate when every test is a 15-second product clip, because you are billed for the rest of the minute. You also leave Arcads with footage, not a verdict on whether the hook should get budget.

What is the best Arcads alternative?

If the brief is “more faces, same script,” Arcads is built for that and a flat-price product-photo tool is not. If the brief is “make the ads and kill the weak ones before they spend,” you want a generator with a score. AdRoast generates image and 15-second video ads from 1,000+ presets and roasts each one before you spend, on a flat $29/month Creator plan. It is not an avatar marketplace, and you launch the ads yourself.

The side-by-side is on the Arcads alternative page. Arcads next to Zeely, AdCreative.ai, Creatify, and the rest is in the best AI ad generator comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Credit rates and refund rules are from Arcads’ help center as checked on September 23, 2026. Plan prices are from Wireflow (July 14, 2026) and Shhots (August 9, 2026), because Arcads does not publish them. Confirm the checkout price before you subscribe. AdRoast is a competing product.