Arcads Pricing 2026: Plans, Costs and Cheaper Options

Arcads pricing at a glance (checked October 21, 2026)

Arcads AI pricing is credit-based: you buy a monthly pool of credits, and every model and tool draws from it. Credits, limits and rollover below come from Arcads' own pricing article. The dollar figures do not. They come from third-party reviews, so treat them as a guide and confirm in the app before you pay.

Where the prices come from: Fastlane's Arcads review (pricing checked October 1, 2026) reports Starter at about $110 a month and Creator at about $220. Shhots' pricing breakdown (verified August 9, 2026) reports the same two prices and a Pro plan at $550 a month, but for 40,000 credits. Arcads' help center now lists Pro at 48,000 credits, so that Pro price may be out of date. Both sites sell competing tools.

Arcads says plans are billed monthly or yearly, and yearly billing is 20% off. It also says it tests new pricing from time to time, so your account may see different rates or plan sizes. The Generate button in the app shows the real cost before each generation.

What each Arcads plan includes

Every plan draws on one credit balance for every model and tool. The feature split, from Arcads' pricing article:

Across all plans you get the actor library (Arcads' homepage advertises 1,000+ AI actors). Arcads' FAQ says talking actors speak 74 languages, and Translate Video offers 176 language and accent options. Its actors are based on real people who consented and are paid for their likeness.

The jump that matters most is Creator to Pro. Starter and Creator stop generating when credits run out, and their credits don't roll over. Pro is where you get rollover, overage billing, the API, custom actors and team seats.

Arcads cost per video: the real math

Arcads charges different credit amounts for each model and tool. These are its standard rates from the pricing article, with how many of each a Starter plan's 8,000 credits covers:

For a typical talking-actor ad, the math is simple. Starter's 8,000 credits make 10 Arcads 1.0 videos, and Creator's 16,000 make 20. At the reported prices of $110 and $220, that's about $11 per talking-actor video on either plan.

Three details change that number in practice:

• Short videos cost the same as long ones. An Arcads 1.0 video costs 800 credits whether it runs 10 seconds or two minutes. That's good value for a full-length ad and poor value for a 5-second hook.
• Hook tests add up. Arcads' hook variations guide suggests generating several spoken hooks with the same actor, then stitching each onto the main video (stitching is free). If each hook is its own talking-actor generation, five hooks use 4,000 credits: half a Starter month.
• More actors cost more. Arcads' credit guide counts talking-actor credits per actor, so a two-actor scene costs double.

Is there an Arcads free trial?

Yes, but there is no free plan. Arcads' free trial works like this:

• It lasts exactly 72 hours from sign-up and includes 1,000 credits, with every feature available.
• A card is required. Arcads places a hold to check it but doesn't charge it during the trial.
• You get a reminder email 24 hours before the trial ends.
• If you don't cancel, the Starter monthly plan starts automatically after 72 hours.
• If you use all 1,000 credits early, a plan picker appears and your card is charged for the plan you choose.
• Cancelling during the trial ends your access right away.

1,000 credits covers one Arcads 1.0 talking-actor video (800 credits) with a little left over, or a handful of short model clips. That's enough to judge the actors, not enough to run a real test.

On refunds, Arcads' refund policy offers a full refund if you used zero credits in the billing period and ask within 30 days. There's also a one-time refund within 24 hours of your first charge if you haven't used credits. Once you've used subscription credits, the charge isn't refundable in cash. When we checked, the homepage was also promoting 7 days of unlimited Seedance 2.5 generations in Arcads Studio.

Who Arcads is worth it for

Arcads describes its users as performance marketers, e-commerce brands, app and game companies, service businesses and agencies. That matches the product. It's built for making paid ads in volume, and it's good at it:

• A large actor library and talking actors in 74 languages, with translation and lip sync.
• Workflows that make a full batch in one run, such as one script across 10 actors in 2 languages.
• Hook tools: new openings, text overlays and actor swaps on an ad that already works.
• Mark, its agent, can read your website and fill in brand memory, so you don't start from a blank page.
• On Pro and above: custom actors, free voice cloning, the API and team seats.

If you spend real money on Meta or TikTok ads and need many scripted variations every week, about $11 per finished talking-actor ad is easy to justify. Arcads is a strong choice there.

It's a weaker fit if you mainly want organic posts. Arcads' help center covers formatting ads for Meta and TikTok placements, but we found nothing about scheduling or publishing posts to your own social accounts. It also has no free plan, and the plans with rollover are the ones whose prices aren't public.

Cheaper options than Arcads

If the reported $110 starting price is more than you want to spend, these tools publish their prices. All figures are from their own pricing pages as of October 2026.

MakeUGC is the closest like-for-like swap: talking actors, product-in-hand shots and an API on every plan. Creatify is the cheapest way in and works from a product link. HeyGen is better for longer talking videos and translation. We compare all of them, plus three more, in our Arcads alternatives guide, and test the wider field in the best AI UGC video generators.

Arcads vs Feedrick: pricing side by side

Feedrick is our product, so weigh this section with that in mind. The two tools do different jobs, which is why the per-video numbers are so far apart.

An Arcads video can be a full two-minute ad with your script, in dozens of languages. Feedrick's five formats are short organic posts: an AI influencer acts out a silent scene, reacts before a cut to your own product demo, or says one line to camera. Feedrick also makes memes and five-slide carousels for 1 credit each. You keep or skip each post, and the ones you keep publish on schedule.

Pick Arcads if you run paid ads and need scripted variations to test. Pick Feedrick if you need a steady stream of posts on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube and don't want to write each one. See how Feedrick works from a pasted link.

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