Cost Breakdown All prices verified -- 6 generations tracked

An online course lesson costs $0.65 on FairStack.

5-minute narrated lesson with educational visuals, background music, and a chapter image. Here's every cost.

Online Course Lesson
$0.65
FairStack total
$50/mo
Subscription cost
77x
Less expensive
~15 minutes
Time to create

What you are producing

One lesson for an online course: 5 minutes of professional AI narration, 4 educational illustrations, background music, and a chapter thumbnail. The building block for a full course.

Deliverables: 5-minute narration, 4 illustrations, background music, chapter thumbnail

Every generation. Every cost.

Lesson narration (~4,000 chars, 5 min)
voice ElevenLabs Turbo 2.5
$0.20
1 x $0.20
Educational illustrations
image Ideogram V3
$0.07
4 x $0.02
Background music track
music Suno
$0.07
1 x $0.07
Chapter thumbnail
image GPT Image 1.5 (medium)
$0.04
2 x $0.02
Alternate narration take
voice ElevenLabs Turbo 2.5
$0.20
1 x $0.20
Alternate illustrations
image Ideogram V3
$0.07
4 x $0.02
Total on FairStack
6 generations -- pay-as-you-go, no subscription
$0.65

The subscription alternative

To produce the same project using individual AI tools, you would need:

ElevenLabs Creator plan
100K credits/mo
You use: ~8,000 chars (8% of plan)
$22/mo
Ideogram Plus plan
1,000 images/mo
You use: 10 images (1% of plan)
$20/mo
Suno Pro plan
500 songs/mo
You use: 1 track (0.2% of plan)
$8/mo
Subscriptions
$50/mo
3 separate tools
FairStack
$0.65
One account, pay-per-generation

Three subscriptions for one lesson. A 20-lesson course costs $11.80 on FairStack vs $50/mo for months of subscription overlap.

$0.65/lesson. A 20-lesson course = $13.00 total. On subscriptions, you'd pay $50-150+ across 1-3 months of production.

No unused credits

Subscriptions charge for capacity you do not use. FairStack charges for what you generate. Nothing more.

One account, all modalities

Video, voice, image, music, sound effects -- all from one platform. No juggling 3 subscriptions.

Same models, lower price

Runway Gen-4, ElevenLabs, Ideogram V3 -- the same models you know, accessed at infrastructure pricing.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a full 20-lesson course cost?
20 lessons x $0.65 = $13.00 total. If you use the same narration voice and background music, recurring lessons cost even less (~$0.43 each after the first).
Can I use a consistent voice across the entire course?
Yes. Use the same ElevenLabs voice (or clone your own) for every lesson. FairStack supports voice cloning for brand consistency.
What about video recording of my screen?
FairStack produces the AI elements: narration, illustrations, music. For screen recording, use OBS, Loom, or Camtasia.

More production cost breakdowns

See what other projects cost to produce with AI.

YouTube Explainer Video

$1.19 vs $58/mo subs

3-minute video with AI narration, 6 video clips (5s each), background music track, thumbnail image, 3 sound effects

See breakdown

Podcast Episode

$0.47 vs $33/mo subs

Intro/outro music, full transcription, episode artwork, 3 audiogram video clips

See breakdown

Audiobook Chapter

$1.25 vs $22/mo subs

~20 minutes of narrated audio, plus one alternate take

See breakdown

Stop paying for capacity you do not use.

Online Course Lesson for $0.65 instead of $50/mo. Same AI models. No subscription.

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All Cost Breakdowns Pricing Compare to Competitors

All FairStack prices from platform config (verified source of truth). Competitor prices from public pricing pages.

Subscription costs are monthly totals. FairStack charges per generation with no minimum commitment.