Ngram Review (2026)3,000 Credits Is Five Minutes
The sticker price buys a credit allowance, not finished video, and the two are easy to confuse.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 17 Aug 2026
Credit-based, three published tiers plus a quote-only Enterprise, with annual billing 20% off. Free is a one-time 600-credit allocation capped at 60 seconds of premium AI generation and 720p exports. Basic is $29/mo, or $23.20/mo billed annually at $278.40 a year, with 3,000 credits a month. Premium is $59/mo, or $47.20 annually at $566.40. Ultimate is $299/mo, or $239.20 annually at $2,870.40, for maximum creation capacity.
The credit allowance rather than the seat is what forces an upgrade. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the price did
We capture Ngram’s own pricing page every month and keep the figures, so this is our record of the page — not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary.
The figures have not moved between our monthly captures. July and August 2026 both record $23.20 against $29, $47.20 against $59 and $239.20 against $299, with the same annual totals of $278.40, $566.40 and $2,870.40, and the page returned them again on 17 August 2026. One note for anyone reading an automated price comparison of this tool: $23.20 is the annual monthly-equivalent of Basic, not a rise from a lower monthly rate, and mistaking the two produces a large phantom increase.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
Premium AI generation runs from 10 credits a second, so Basic's 3,000 credits a month come out at roughly 300 seconds — about five minutes of generated footage. Ngram says as much on the page: generation seconds measure premium AI-generated footage, not final video length, and manual editing and exports are unlimited on paid plans. So the tier you need tracks how much AI footage you generate, not how many videos you publish.
The top-up economics run the wrong way for small buyers. Extra credits cost 1,000 for $40 on Free, $20 on Basic, $15 on Premium and $10 on Ultimate — the cheapest plan pays four times per credit what the dearest one pays. Anyone topping up regularly on Basic is paying a premium for staying on the cheap tier, and should price the next tier against a month of actual top-ups rather than against the headline gap between the two.
Two smaller things before you pick. Export quality is tiered — 720p on Basic, 1080p on Premium, 4K on Ultimate — so the resolution you need may set your plan before the credits do. And image and audio generation still consume credits on Basic, going unlimited only from Premium up.
What Ngram does
AI video creation for product and marketing teams. Turn docs, screenshots and recordings into polished, on-brand videos — scripted, storyboarded and produced with AI on a credit-based model, with a brand kit, captions and subtitles, AI voiceover and an AI avatar presenter. A published blog post or doc URL is a valid starting point in its own right: paste the link and it handles the research, script, storyboard, voice and style choice and the render in one sitting, with no editor in the loop, and hands back a shareable public link or an embed.
What buyers report about Ngram
Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Ngram ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • Document or URL to a structured video with script, storyboard, visuals and voiceover in one pass — for turning dense material into a demo that is a genuinely specific strength.
- • Automatic screen-recording edits with zoom, highlights and cuts, plus brand kits applied consistently. Free plan gives 300 credits, and paid plans have a 7-day trial.
- • Independent reviews on G2, Trustpilot and Reddit are sparse compared with established tools. There is not much outside evidence yet.
- • No AI avatars and no voice cloning.
- • Web only — no mobile app — and collaboration features plus enterprise integrations are still in development.
- • It is built for document-to-video and screen recordings. As a general video tool it is the wrong shape.
When the paid plan is worth it
The sticker buys a credit allowance, not finished video, and the two are easy to confuse. Free is a one-time 600 credits capped at sixty seconds of premium AI generation and 720p exports. Basic is $29 a month ($23.20 annually) for 3,000 credits, Premium $59 ($47.20), and Ultimate $299 ($239.20). Annual billing is 20% off throughout. Premium AI generation runs from ten credits a second, so Basic's 3,000 credits are about 300 seconds — five minutes of generated footage a month.
So the tier you need tracks how much AI footage you generate, not how many videos you publish, and a team that mostly edits recordings will sit comfortably on a plan that looks far too small on paper. The top-up economics run the wrong way for small buyers, and this is the number that decides upgrades. A thousand extra credits cost $40 on Free, $20 on Basic, $15 on Premium and $10 on Ultimate — so Basic pays double per credit what Ultimate pays, and Free pays four times.
Anyone topping up regularly on Basic is paying a premium for staying on the cheap tier. Price the next tier against a month of your actual top-ups rather than against the headline gap between the plans; two top-ups a month on Basic already costs more than the jump to Premium. Two smaller things that can set your plan before the credits do. Export quality is tiered — 720p on Basic, 1080p on Premium, 4K on Ultimate — so the resolution your channel needs may decide for you.
Our monthly capture read this vendor's pricing page in July 2026 and again in August 2026, and the amounts were the same both times. We keep watching — the registry records what moves.
How to actually use Ngram
Work out how much AI-GENERATED footage you need, not how many videos you publish, because those are different numbers and the tier tracks the first. Manual editing and exports are unlimited on paid plans, so a long video built mostly from your own material can sit comfortably on a cheap tier. Check the export ceiling before you commit, because it is tiered: 720p on Basic, 1080p on Premium, 4K on Ultimate.
If a client needs 1080p, Basic is not a cheaper version of the product, it is the wrong plan. Then do the top-up arithmetic, because it runs the wrong way for small buyers. Extra credits cost 1,000 for $20 on Basic, $15 on Premium and $10 on Ultimate — so anyone topping up regularly on Basic pays twice per credit what Ultimate pays. Price a month of your actual top-ups against the next tier rather than comparing the headline subscription figures.
And treat the free allocation as a sample rather than a trial period: 600 credits once, capped at 60 seconds of premium generation and 720p exports. Spend it on the hardest shot you need rather than an easy one. Annual billing takes 20% off across the ladder.
Ngram vs Synthesia, side by side
Both columns come from the same place: each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in the sources at the foot of this page. We do not average them into a score.
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The natural comparison is Synthesia or Pictory — close AI-video tools — Ngram leans product/marketing clips from your own assets; compare credit economics against your real export volume.
More on Ngram
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The ex-banker filter — the same yardstick on every review (how we review): My ex-banker filter is simple: does Ngram remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.
Frequently asked questions
What does Ngram cost?
Basic $29 a month, or $23.20 billed annually ($278.40 a year); Premium $59 or $47.20 ($566.40); Ultimate $299 or $239.20 ($2,870.40). Annual saves 20%. There is a free one-time allocation of 600 credits. Read on 17 August 2026.
What does the free tier actually let me make?
Very little, deliberately: 600 credits once, a 60-second cap on premium AI generation and 720p exports. It is enough to judge output quality on a single short clip, which is the right thing to test, but not enough to produce anything you would publish.
What runs out first, credits or features?
Credits. Basic gives 3,000 a month and the tiers above raise the allowance rather than unlocking a different product. Work out how many seconds of video you generate in a normal month and read across — upgrading for a feature you saw in a comparison table is usually the wrong reason here.
What should I weigh before buying IT & Productivity software?
Judge it on evidence rather than adjectives. Look for a published security page, single sign-on and role controls on the plan you would actually buy (they are often gated to higher tiers), a status page with real incident history, and a clear answer on where your data is stored. If the tool will hold anything sensitive, those four answers matter more than any feature comparison.
Is this a hands-on review of Ngram?
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- Buyer reviews on G2 and practitioner reviews, read August 2026.
- Re-verified 2026-08-17.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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