InVideo AI
by invideo
Getting-started guide
Describe a video in a sentence, get a finished cut back, then edit it by typing.
Current prices: $10 per seat/mo · See all plans
Last reviewed 2026-09-17 · for InVideo AI
You open its prompt page and type what you want the video to be — a prompt (the message you type) can be one line, a rough concept, or a finished script. Back comes a full cut with visuals, voiceover and music. Below it sits a second box where you type changes in plain English, and it re-cuts.
invideo is a video maker you drive by describing what you want, rather than by dragging clips along a timeline — though there is a timeline underneath if you want it.
It writes the script as well, and the footage and music come from licensed stock libraries — iStock, Storyblocks and Shutterstock — though it can also generate shots outright.
During 2026 invideo repositioned itself around "Agent Two", marketed as an agentic video editor for serious creatives, with project memory that carries characters and tone between sessions. The simple on-ramp — describe a video, get a cut — is still there and is still the right way in.
Signing up takes an email address, a Google account or an Apple account, and invideo sends a six-digit code instead of asking for a password. Its AI video generator page says "Get started, It's free!"; we could not confirm from any public page whether a card is requested during signup, so expect to check that yourself.
There is a free plan, but you will not find it on the pricing page. That page currently lists only three paid tiers — Starter, Plus and Max. The free plan is documented only in the help centre, which says it gives you limited credits (the platform's unit of spend — each thing you make costs some) that reset weekly, on Monday at 12 a.m. UTC.
The thing to know before you invest an afternoon: invideo's help centre states that on the free plan, downloading without a watermark (a mark stamped on the output showing where it was made) requires a paid plan. Free exports are watermarked.
Credits are spent on *creating*, never on downloading, and different models cost wildly different amounts — invideo's own example runs from about half a credit for a quick clip to 10 or more credits for a 4K clip with generated audio. Unused monthly credits are forfeited at each reset; credits you buy separately as an add-on last 12 months.
Premium iStock footage is a second, separate meter from credits, and it behaves backwards from them: it is counted when you download, not when you generate.
Unlike most video tools, invideo is explicit about training. Its privacy policy (effective 8 June 2026, last updated 8 July 2026) states flatly, "We do not use your User Content, Inputs, Output or Designs to train or fine-tune our proprietary artificial intelligence or machine-learning models."
Delete your account and invideo says content leaves active systems within about 90 days, with backups overwritten on normal rotation. Ordinary marketing footage is fine here; unreleased client material run through a model whose tier you have not checked is the case worth a second thought.
Make a 60-second video explaining why sourdough bread takes so long to rise. Friendly, curious tone, aimed at someone who has never baked. Use real footage where you can, and end on a single practical tip.
Why this one: The prompt page runs Agent mode by default and takes a one-line concept, a loose treatment or a finished script in the same field.
Tweak: Swap the topic for anything you would otherwise explain in a blog post.
settings: no iStock media
Why this one: iStock is the one capped library, and invideo documents a settings: directive inside the prompt that caps or removes it; anything removed is replaced automatically from its Storyblocks and Shutterstock libraries, which are uncapped.
Tweak: settings: max 3 iStock media caps it rather than cutting it.
Change the narrator voice to an Australian accent, make scene #4 funnier, and increase the background music to 80%.
Why this one: Magic Box sits under the rendered video rather than in a project panel, and it accepts media, audio, text and tone commands in the same sentence — including scene numbers.
Tweak: "Remove iStock media" and "Replace all iStock media" work here too, after the fact.
Make this video in Brazilian Portuguese, keeping the same visuals and pacing.
Why this one: Brazilian Portuguese is one of the 11 fully tested languages, and the language request goes in the prompt itself, so translation is a re-run of the same job rather than a separate export-and-dub pipeline.
Tweak: Check the subtitle list above first — several supported languages do not yet get subtitles.
Enter your prompt and, before confirming, read the credit figure invideo displays alongside the generate control; open the dropdown and choose "Learn more" for a per-model breakdown, then pick a cheaper model if the job does not need the expensive one.
Why this one: The credit cost is shown before the generation runs rather than billed after it, and the per-model gap is wide enough to change which model you pick.
Want the full picture first? See the InVideo AI overview for pricing, the free tier and related tools.
