# Operation prices > What each Slicer operation costs: the montage at a fixed price, editor AI operations at cost, what is free and when tokens come back. Source: https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/help/prices/ All prices are in tokens. Slicer always names the price of a paid operation before it starts: it is on the button or in the confirmation sheet. A montage by the AI director has a fixed price — it is taken from Slicer's current catalog on this page. AI operations in the editor are charged at cost: what the AI service charges is what you pay, never more than shown ([how it works](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/pricing/#at-cost)). ## Montage | Operation | Price | When it is charged | | --- | --- | --- | | A reel up to 90 seconds — with the director's self-check | 24 tokens | when the reel is ready; on failure or stop the reserve is returned | | Rebuild with new settings | 24 tokens | the same | | **Edit with the AI director** in a manual project | 24 tokens | the same; the free first reel does not apply here | | Retry of a failed montage or rebuild | the same as the run itself | the same; retrying a free run is free | | The first reel on an account | free | with a watermark; after a pack purchase it is re-rendered without it for free | ## Editor and AI The price of each operation is shown before it starts. While it runs, the price is reserved on your balance, rounded up to a whole token — so you need at least one free token to start. | Operation | What you pay for | Details | | --- | --- | --- | | [Captions from speech](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/speech/) | minutes of audio of the checked sources | the whole length of a source, not only the part in the reel; if it fails, the tokens come back; free on the device in the app | | AI assistant command | one command | the price reads “≈ X, at most Y”; charged only if the assistant changed something | | **Remove filler words (free)** | free | | | Caption translation | one translation | the price reads “≈ X, at most Y”; charged only if the translation worked | | [Dub into another language](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/translate/#dub) | the translation plus seconds of voice-over, ≈0.023 tokens per second | the price and the number of seconds are shown in the sheet before you start; if it fails, the tokens come back | | AI effect from a prompt | seconds of the range | per started second; the range is 2 to 30 seconds; available on a finished reel | | [Remove background](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/ai/remove-background/) | seconds of video | only for seconds of clips not processed yet; free on the device in the app | | [Remove object](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/erase/) | seconds of the fragment, ≈0.93 tokens per second | whole seconds, fragments up to 10 seconds; the price is on the button before you start; if it fails, the tokens come back | | [Follow the face](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/frame/#follow-face) | AI calls: one per 10 seconds of the clip, ≈0.97 tokens per call | the price reads “≈ X, at most Y”; only if the face wasn't already found by the AI montage or an earlier search; if it fails, no tokens are charged; free on the device in the app | | [Media card from a description](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/elements/#card-prompt) | one image, ≈0.65 tokens | the price is on the button before you start; charged only if the image is made; you can then put the image into other cards for free | | AI avatar | seconds of speech | the length is estimated from the text; charged only if the avatar works out | | Isolate voice | minutes of the source | once per source — its clips are processed for free afterwards | | [AI upscaling to 4K](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/publish/export/#upscale) on export | seconds of the reel, ≈1.2 tokens per second | whole seconds; the price is in the **Upscaling** row before you start; if the AI can't manage, the reel is upscaled the standard way and the reserve is returned | | The director's answer in the chat (**Chat with the director**) | one answer | the cost of the AI calls; the director starts a rebuild from the chat only after you confirm — at the montage price | More about each AI operation — in the [AI](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/ai/assistant/) section. ## Always free - An [Edit it myself](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/projects/manual/) project: editing by hand, export with no watermark (up to 30 exports a day) and publishing to social media. - Export with any settings and publishing to social media; upscaling to 2K and 4K the standard way (**Standard**). - [Picture in picture](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/pip/) — windows with your own photos and videos over the reel. - Manual edits in the editor: text, clips, speed and speed curves, volume and volume points, transitions, effects, animations, color, mask and its animation, background, [chroma key](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/frame/#chroma-key), freeze frame, keyframes, music and beats, [fitting music to the reel length](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/music/#music-fit), elements, titles, aspect ratio, cover. - [A media card with your own photo](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/elements/#card-photo). - [Export for an editing app](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/publish/interchange/): the timeline, SRT captions and the source files. - **Cut pauses**, **Reduce noise**, **Enhance voice**, **Reverse**, **Stabilize**, **Smooth slow motion**, **Extract audio**. - Style changes: font, accent, captions, sound effects, intro push-in. - Restoring a previous version of the reel. - [Captions from speech](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/speech/#where), [Remove background](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/ai/remove-background/#where) and [Follow the face](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/frame/#follow-face) on the device itself — in the app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. - [Follow the face](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/editor/frame/#follow-face) when the AI montage has already found the face. ## When tokens come back - A montage, rebuild or retry failed — the reserve is returned in full, the project shows **Tokens refunded**. - You stopped a run with **Stop** — the reserve is returned. - An AI operation failed (transcription, avatar, translation, effect, face search, card image, object removal) — no tokens are charged. - AI upscaling on export failed — the reel is upscaled the standard way and the reserve is returned. - An assistant command changed nothing — **No changes — no tokens charged.** - The AI service charged more than the price shown — Slicer pays the difference itself. ## Packs Tokens are bought in packs in the **Balance** section — [Balance and packs](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/account/balance/). The bigger the pack, the cheaper a single reel. ## What's next - [Tokens, packs and the free reel](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/pricing/) - [Retry and stop](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/projects/runs/)