An Atlas Cloud alternative for AI video generation
Competitor prices checked October 22, 2026 from Atlas Cloud's public pricing; they change often.
Prices as of October 22, 2026 (price list v5).
Is Makernice a good Atlas Cloud alternative?
Looking for an Atlas Cloud alternative for video? Makernice focuses on 12 video and 4 image models, including Seedance, Kling 3.0, Wan 3.0 and MiniMax H3, under one API key and prepaid balance, with a 12-minute price quote before every run. As of October 22, 2026, each service is lower on different models.
This page compares with Atlas Cloud (atlascloud.ai), the model API and GPU cloud. Atlas Cloud facts from its pricing page, docs and terms, checked 2026-10-22.
Who should consider an Atlas Cloud alternative?
Consider Makernice if your Atlas Cloud usage is mostly video, you want a price quote locked before every run, and you want to be able to cancel a job while it is still queued.
Stay on Atlas Cloud if you also need LLMs (Atlas serves them in OpenAI and Anthropic formats), GPU rental, its wider catalog of 400+ models, audio-off Seedance or Kling, or the rows below where Atlas Cloud is lower.
Which video models do both offer?
| On Atlas Cloud (model path, checked 2026-10-22) | On Makernice | Model page |
|---|---|---|
bytedance/seedance-2.5 | seedance-2.5 | Seedance 2.5 |
bytedance/seedance-2.0 | seedance-2.0 | Seedance 2.0 |
bytedance/seedance-2.0-fast | seedance-2.0-fast | Seedance 2.0 Fast |
kwaivgi/kling-v3.0-pro | kling-3.0-pro | Kling 3.0 Pro |
kwaivgi/kling-v3.0-std | kling-3.0-standard | Kling 3.0 Standard |
alibaba/wan-3.0 | wan-3.0 | Wan 3.0 |
alibaba/wan-3.0-prime | wan-3.0-prime | Wan 3.0 Prime |
alibaba/happyhorse-1.1 | happy-horse-1.1 | Happy Horse 1.1 |
minimax/h3 | minimax-h3 | MiniMax H3 |
minimax/h3-max | minimax-h3-max | MiniMax H3 Max (not priced below, see note) |
Makernice also serves Kling 3.0 4K and MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, plus four image models. Full list: all 16 models.
How do per-second prices compare?
USD per second of output. Makernice: price list v5 (as of October 22, 2026). Atlas Cloud: the "our price" rows on atlascloud.ai/pricing/models, October 22, 2026. Atlas Cloud's Seedance prices are token-based estimates it publishes, marked "(est.)". Competitor prices checked October 22, 2026 from Atlas Cloud's public pricing; they change often.
| Model · tier | Makernice $/s | Atlas Cloud $/s (checked 2026-10-22) | Lower |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.5 · 480p | $0.1152 | 0.1397 (est.) | Makernice |
| Seedance 2.5 · 720p | $0.2592 | 0.3005 (est.) | Makernice |
| Seedance 2.5 · 1080p | $0.4618 | 0.5914 (est.) | Makernice |
| Seedance 2.5 · 4K | $1.955 | 1.7006 (est., listed as "4k-esr") | Not compared: Atlas Cloud lists 4K only as an -esr super-resolution variant, so the tiers may not match. Makernice's 4K is a separately priced 4K output option; ByteDance's official API tops out at 1080p (BytePlus ModelArk docs, checked October 22, 2026) |
| Seedance 2.0 · 720p | $0.1704 | 0.1935 (est.) | Makernice |
| Seedance 2.0 · 1080p | $0.4252 | 0.4355 (est.) | Makernice (small margin) |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast · 720p | $0.1027 | 0.1548 (est.) | Makernice. Atlas Cloud also sells Fast at 480p and 1080p; on Makernice, Fast is 720p only |
| Kling 3.0 Pro · with audio | $0.1612 (1080p tier) | 0.1428 (1080P) | Atlas Cloud |
| Kling 3.0 Standard · with audio | $0.1209 (720p tier) | 0.1071 (720P) | Atlas Cloud |
| Kling 3.0 Pro / Standard · without audio | not offered | 0.0952 / 0.0714 | Atlas Cloud |
| Wan 3.0 · 480p / 720p / 1080p | $0.0394 / $0.0789 / $0.1578 | 0.04 / 0.08 / 0.16 | Makernice (small margin) |
| Wan 3.0 Prime · 480p | $0.0617 | 0.0612 | Atlas Cloud |
| Wan 3.0 Prime · 720p / 1080p | $0.1234 / $0.2468 | 0.126 / 0.252 | Makernice (small margin) |
| Happy Horse 1.1 · 720p / 1080p | $0.168 / $0.216 | 0.14 / 0.18 | Atlas Cloud |
| MiniMax H3 · 768p | $0.072 | 0.08 | Makernice |
| MiniMax H3 · 2K | $0.156 | 0.13 | Atlas Cloud |
Makernice prices are per second of requested duration, the same in every mode, 4-decimal truncation; live at GET https://api.makernice.com/v1/pricing. Makernice's Seedance and Kling prices always include audio. Audio is always on (no toggle) for Seedance. Atlas Cloud lists MiniMax H3's prompt expansion as a separate add-on ($0.117 on its pricing page, checked 2026-10-22); on Makernice, prompt_expansion is an option on the same per-second price. MiniMax H3 Max isn't in the table: Atlas Cloud's pricing page and its llms.txt showed different prices on October 22, 2026. The table compares standard tiers. Atlas Cloud also lists cheaper -sr/-esr super-resolution variants, for example Seedance 2.0 1080p-sr $0.3484, Seedance 2.5 720p-esr $0.2515, Wan 3.0 720P-ESR $0.064 and Wan 3.0 Prime 720P-ESR $0.1008 (checked 2026-10-22).
Atlas Cloud is lower for Kling 3.0 (with or without audio), Happy Horse 1.1, MiniMax H3 at 2K, Wan 3.0 Prime at 480p and Seedance 2.5 at 4K. Makernice is lower for Seedance 2.0, 2.0 Fast and Seedance 2.5 up to 1080p, Wan 3.0, Wan 3.0 Prime at 720p and 1080p, and MiniMax H3 at 768p. Several margins are small. If your volume sits in Atlas Cloud's rows, Atlas Cloud is the better deal on price; run your mix through the cost calculator and compare.
How does billing differ?
| Makernice | Atlas Cloud (from Atlas Cloud's docs and terms, checked October 22, 2026) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price before the run | A quote for every generation, locked for 12 minutes; full list public at GET /v1/pricing | Per-model "our price" next to the official price; Seedance rows are estimates |
| Failed or timed-out run | Not charged; the hold is released in full. Note: if a finished output is blocked by output moderation for a policy violation, the run is still charged. You can contact support for a manual review. | Failed and timed-out jobs are not billed |
| Blocked by moderation | A finished output blocked by output moderation for a policy violation is still charged; you can contact support for a manual review | Moderation-rejected jobs are not billed |
| Cancel | Queued jobs can be cancelled; the hold is released in full. A running job can't be cancelled (409 not_cancelable) | Atlas Cloud's FAQ says there is no cancel endpoint (checked 2026-10-22) |
| Uncertain result (e.g. the model provider doesn't respond) | Status checking while the result is confirmed; the amount stays held until it's resolved and is charged only if the generation is confirmed to have succeeded | — |
| Payment | Prepaid USD, top-ups $15–$1,000 (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, crypto); no subscription, no free tier; the balance never expires | Prepaid top-ups; credits expire 365 days after purchase (Acceptable Use Policy) |
| Getting money back | Unused balance is in principle non-refundable; duplicate charges or mistaken top-ups can be raised with support and handled case by case | Top-ups are final and non-refundable |
| Fees on top | No top-up fee from Makernice; sales tax/VAT may apply at checkout depending on your location. | — |
| Output files | Outputs are deleted about 30 days after they're stored, so download them promptly. | — |
| Your content | Makernice doesn't use your content to train models. | — |
— = not stated on the competitor's public pages, checked 2026-10-22. Full Makernice rules with examples: No charge for failed generations.
Both services leave failed and timed-out jobs unbilled. Atlas Cloud goes further on moderation: its docs say moderation-rejected jobs aren't billed, while Makernice charges a finished output that output moderation blocks. Makernice's differences on the other side are the locked quote and cancelling a queued job.
How do you move an Atlas Cloud video request to Makernice?
An Atlas Cloud video job becomes three Makernice calls: quote, create, poll. Makernice uses its own async REST API; it is not OpenAI-SDK compatible, and Atlas Cloud's LLM endpoints have no Makernice equivalent.
| On Atlas Cloud | On Makernice |
|---|---|
Model path, e.g. bytedance/seedance-2.5/text-to-video | "model": "seedance-2.5" plus an explicit "mode": t2v, i2v, flf or r2v |
| Kling 3.0 Pro (1080P) / Std (720P), sound on or off | Pick the model id: kling-3.0-pro or kling-3.0-standard. Kling has no resolution field and always includes audio |
| Resolution choice | resolution (480p, 720p, 1080p, 4k; MiniMax H3: 480p, 768p, 2k, 4k). Seedance 2.0 Fast takes none |
| Prompt and duration | prompt, duration (whole seconds inside the model's range) |
| First frame, last frame, references | image_url, last_image_url, reference_images (Seedance 2.5 ≤16; Seedance 2.0, 2.0 Fast and Happy Horse 1.1 ≤9; MiniMax H3 ≤5; H3 Max ≤4) |
| Audio off on Seedance | Not available: Audio is always on (no toggle), and sending generate_audio returns a 400 |
| H3 prompt expansion add-on | "prompt_expansion": "off" | "balanced" | "quality" on minimax-h3, same per-second price |
import os, time, uuid, requests
API = "https://api.makernice.com/v1"
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MAKERNICE_API_KEY']}"}
job = {"model": "minimax-h3", "mode": "t2v", "resolution": "768p", "duration": 10,
"aspect_ratio": "16:9", "prompt_expansion": "balanced",
"prompt": "A fishing boat leaves harbour at sunrise, gulls overhead, wide aerial shot."}
quote = requests.post(f"{API}/generations/quote", json=job, headers=H).json()
print(f"${int(quote['amount']) / 1e6:.2f}") # $0.72 at v5, locked for 12 minutes
gen = requests.post(f"{API}/generations", json={"quote_id": quote["id"], "input": job},
headers={**H, "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4())}).json()
# Changed your mind? Cancel works only while the job is queued; the hold is released in full.
# requests.post(f"{API}/generations/{gen['id']}/cancel", headers=H)
while gen["status"] not in ("succeeded", "failed", "canceled"):
time.sleep(5)
gen = requests.get(f"{API}/generations/{gen['id']}", headers=H).json()
A retry with the same Idempotency-Key returns the original generation and doesn't charge again. Cancel path POST /v1/generations/{id}/cancel while the job is queued. Guides: Quickstart · Video API best practices.
Where does Atlas Cloud win?
- Breadth. 400+ models, including LLMs in OpenAI and Anthropic formats, plus GPU rental. Makernice is video and image only, 16 models.
- Lower prices on some rows: Kling 3.0 (with or without audio), Happy Horse 1.1, MiniMax H3 at 2K, Wan 3.0 Prime at 480p and Seedance 2.5 at 4K, as of October 22, 2026.
- Audio off. Atlas Cloud offers sound-off rates for Kling; Makernice's Seedance and Kling always include audio.
- Moderation billing. Atlas Cloud says moderation-rejected jobs aren't billed.
- More Seedance 2.0 Fast tiers: 480p and 1080p, where Makernice offers 720p only.
About Makernice
Makernice is an AI video and image generation API: one API key and one prepaid balance for 16 models from ByteDance, Kuaishou, MiniMax and Alibaba. Every run starts with a quote that locks the price for 12 minutes, through Makernice's own async REST API (quote, create, poll, cancel).
Frequently asked questions
Is Makernice an Atlas Cloud alternative?
For video and image generation, yes. Makernice runs 12 video and 4 image models with one API key and one prepaid balance. It doesn't offer LLMs or GPU rental.
Is Makernice cheaper than Atlas Cloud?
It depends on the model. As of October 22, 2026, Makernice is lower for Seedance 2.5 up to 1080p, Seedance 2.0 and 2.0 Fast, Wan 3.0, Wan 3.0 Prime at 720p and 1080p, and MiniMax H3 at 768p. Atlas Cloud is lower for Kling 3.0, Happy Horse 1.1, MiniMax H3 at 2K, Wan 3.0 Prime at 480p and Seedance 2.5 at 4K.
Can I cancel a job on Makernice?
Yes, while it is still queued, and the held amount is released in full. Once a job starts running it can't be cancelled.
Are failed runs charged?
No. Failed and timed-out runs aren't charged. Note: if a finished output is blocked by output moderation for a policy violation, the run is still charged. You can contact support for a manual review.
Can I get my balance back?
Generally no. Unused balance is in principle non-refundable; duplicate charges or mistaken top-ups can be raised with support and handled case by case. Top-ups run from $15 to $1,000, with no top-up fee from Makernice; sales tax/VAT may apply at checkout depending on your location.
Is the Makernice API OpenAI-compatible?
No. Makernice uses its own async REST API: quote, create, poll and cancel.
Related
- All 16 models · Seedance 2.5 · Seedance 2.0 · Kling 3.0 Pro · Wan 3.0 Prime · Happy Horse 1.1 · MiniMax H3
- Billing: No charge for failed generations · Pricing
- Build: Quickstart · Video API best practices
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- Cost: AI video cost calculator
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Price your Atlas Cloud video workload on Makernice.
Prepaid in US dollars by card (including Apple Pay and Google Pay) or crypto, $15 to $1,000 per top-up; the balance never expires. Failed runs aren't charged. Note: if a finished output is blocked by output moderation for a policy violation, the run is still charged. You can contact support for a manual review. No top-up fee from Makernice; sales tax/VAT may apply at checkout depending on your location.