Video Cost Calculator

Published 2026 guides put corporate video projects at roughly $4,500 to $20,000, with crew day rates from a few hundred dollars for a solo videographer to several thousand for a full team. The spread comes from crew size, locations, pre-production and post scope. Our production cost guide breaks down every band with sources.

Experienced editors charge about $200 to $600 per long-form video in 2026, hourly rates run $20 to $150 by seniority, and vertical shorts cost $50 to $150 per clip. Footage volume, graphics load and revision rounds move the number most. The full breakdown is in our editing cost guide.

A professionally edited long-form YouTube video runs $200 to $600 from experienced editors, while filmed-and-produced episodes cost more depending on crew and location. Shorts cut from the same footage run $50 to $150 each. At a steady weekly cadence, monthly arrangements usually beat per-video pricing.

Per-finished-minute pricing runs $50 to $150 as a 2026 baseline for standard editing, more for corporate work with motion graphics, and $1,500 to $5,000 per minute for heavy animation. The rate only means something next to a complexity spec, which is why quotes for the same runtime can sit far apart.

Nine variables move a quote: raw footage volume, motion graphics, turnaround, revision rounds, experience, format, geography, volume and scope beyond the cut. The single largest swing is footage: the same ten-minute video costs two to three times more when the raw material grows from three hours to forty.

It depends on volume, which is what this calculator prices. At one or two videos a month a freelancer usually wins on cost. From about three up, a partner or monthly arrangement wins per shipped video once reliability and your own coordination hours are counted. In-house pays off only at consistent full-week volume.