Luma app profile
For agencies and brand teams weighing Luma as an AI video generator: what its text-to-video clips and AI ad variations cost in credits, where they stop, and why VidRush is the pick for a finished long-form YouTube video.
One brief in, a finished 6 to 40 minute video out, cut from real footage. You see the credit quote before anything runs.
Luma
AI agents and video models that generate short cinematic clips, images and audio for creative teams
1.4
· 72 reviews
About
Luma (Luma AI, Palo Alto) builds its own video and image models, Ray3.2 and Uni-1, and runs them inside an app where AI agents research, generate and refine work across video, image, audio and text. The same workspace also runs third-party models such as Seedance, Kling, Veo 3.1, MiniMax and Flux. Video is generated as short clips, priced per 5 or 10 seconds or per second, with text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, reframe and upscale actions. Its homepage names advertising groups such as Dentsu, Publicis Groupe and Serviceplan, and its example tasks are ad variations, product hero shots, paid social variants and teasers. Luma is also available inside Claude and ChatGPT.
Ideal for
Agencies and brand creative teams who need many short generated clips, ad variants and images from prompts, and who edit them into finished pieces themselves.
What it does well
Builds its own video model, Ray3.2, which it says gives control over every frame and holds continuity across cuts
Ray3.2 and Ray3.14 can output HDR and HDR+EXR as well as SDR
One workspace runs third-party video models too: Seedance 2.0 and 2.5, Kling 3.0 and 4.0, Veo 3.1, MiniMax H3 and Flux 3
AI agents work across video, image, audio and text, and Luma can be used inside Claude and ChatGPT
Wide image model choice, including Uni-1.1, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana and Ideogram, plus image upscaling up to 8K
Audio tools in the same app: ElevenLabs v4 text-to-speech, sound effects and music generation
Weighing Luma for long-form YouTube? VidRush builds the whole edit
4.3
· 54 reviews
None on Mini and Pro: all 8 from one brief
You finish research, script, voiceover, footage and visuals, music and sound, thumbnail
Yes
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Yes, paired with another tier
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes, 6–60 min
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Yes
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Yes (beta)
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Yes
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Yes, from one photo, with no charge to create it
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Editing Style and Script Style learned from one of your videos
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Up to 30 blocked sources per Brand Profile, plus preferred sources
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First render included in the video charge
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English, German and Spanish
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1 to 15 at once, by plan
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Yes, 6–60 min
No; clips priced per 5–10 seconds
Ray3.2 text-to-video and image-to-video are priced per 5 or 10 seconds of output.
Yes
Limited
A credit calculator in the help pages estimates credits and cost before you generate.
Yes (beta)
Yes, through Luma Agents
Agents research, generate and refine work; Luma also runs inside Claude and ChatGPT.
Yes, 5–50 by plan
Limited
Uni-1 carries style and character references into assets; no per-channel profiles are described.
Yes
Limited
General image models are available; no thumbnail tool is described.
Yes, plus Cartesia and 25 VidRush-exclusive voices
ElevenLabs v4 text-to-speech; library size not stated
Yes, up to 15 by plan
Yes, on the Team plan (contact sales)
When the video finishes; blocked input and system failures cost nothing
Per generation, rounded up (9 s billed as 10 s)
Monthly plans pause for up to 3 months
No; cancel and resubscribe
In-app chat, 24 hours on weekdays
Email support; hours not stated
Unused plan credits roll over, up to half the monthly allotment
No; monthly credits do not roll over
Only paid top-up credits roll over.
A finished video, not clips to assemble
One brief returns a finished 6 to 60 minute video with research, script, voiceover, footage, editing, music, captions and thumbnail. Luma's Ray3.2 is priced per 5 or 10 seconds of clips you stitch together yourself.
$1.46 to $2.18 for a finished minute
On Pro + Medium, every minute is narrated, edited, captioned and scored with licensed B-roll. A Luma minute is generated footage with no voice or edit, so there is no like-for-like figure to set against it.
Real licensed footage
Deep Video v1 Pro cuts Storyblocks stock video, licensed in perpetuity, together with images and motion graphics. Luma generates its video as short clips from prompts and images.
Charged only when the video finishes
Blocked input and generations that fail on a system error cost nothing. Luma bills per generation and rounds up, so 9 seconds of output is billed as 10.
Fix a shot without starting over
Swap a clip in the timeline editor, or ask Rush Agent (early beta) to change footage or regenerate a stretch of voiceover. The first re-render is included. Reviewers report Luma changes past the first prompt mean starting from scratch.
The cost before anything runs
The Quote Statement shows format, length, language, model, voice, Brand Profile and a credit estimate before any credit is charged. Luma offers a credit calculator in its help pages.
Credits that roll over, plans that pause
Unused plan credits roll over up to half the monthly allotment, and monthly plans pause for up to 3 months. Luma's monthly credits do not roll over, and pausing means cancelling and resubscribing.
Your brand on every video
Brand Profiles save each channel's voice, look, footage rules, editing style and script style. You can train the styles on one of your own videos, with 5 to 50 profiles by plan.
Pros
Builds its own Ray3.2 video model, which Luma says gives control over every frame and holds continuity across cuts.
Made for AI ad variations in 16:9 and 9:16, product hero shots, paid social variants and teasers from prompts and images.
One workspace also runs third-party models, including Seedance, Kling, Veo 3.1, MiniMax H3 and Flux 3.
HDR and HDR+EXR output, video upscaling to 4K and image upscaling up to 8K.
Cons
Video comes as 5 or 10 second clips, so a long YouTube video means generating many clips and assembling them yourself.
Ray3 does not support audio, per Luma's credit guide. Voice and music are separate per-use generations you place yourself.
Billed per generation and rounded up. Monthly credits do not roll over, and a plan cannot be paused, only cancelled.
Reviewers report that changing a video past the first prompt means starting from scratch and spending more credits.
Reviewers report credits running out fast and paid results looking worse than the trial.
Reviewers report support replies taking from a week to a month and a half.
USE CASES
Faceless, talking-head or with an AI presenter: give VidRush a brief, a script or a recording and get the finished long-form video back.
Faceless documentary and explainer channels
Give VidRush a prompt with your topic, length and title. You get back a researched, narrated documentary cut from licensed stock, images and motion graphics.
See how it works
Top 10 lists and breakdowns
Ask for a Top 10 in your prompt or write a list-structured script. VidRush builds a numbered countdown with enough time for each item to land.
See how it works
Talking-head videos
Record yourself once and upload it. VidRush cuts dead air and filler, adds B-roll, captions and your theme, and returns a finished edit.
See how it works
AI presenter videos without filming
Pick a VidRush avatar, a background and a voice. VidRush writes the script and builds the full video around your presenter (beta).
See how it works
Your own face as a reusable host
Upload one photo of yourself to create a custom avatar. It then presents your videos to camera, so you can appear on screen without filming each one.
See how it works
Avatar-led videos with generated scenes
Give Persona I an avatar plus your script or voiceover. It generates a visual for every line and shows your host from different angles, for videos up to 40 minutes.
See how it works
From zero to 3 monetized channels in 5 months
“In that short time I managed to monetize three YouTube channels. That's something I never would have pulled off so fast with a traditional setup. What used to take my team roughly four days to coordinate, scripting, editing, voiceover, finding the right footage, I can now get done in under 30 minutes.”
Arez A.
· VidRush customer
It helped me monetize a channel in 1 month.
“So far, the vidrush videos went viral much faster and more often than the ones my editors did. AND, I created those videos in 1-2 hours, with minimal input on my end. Maybe I changed 1 or 2 scenes. The videos turn out very good.”
RomyB
· VidRush customer
“My editors have been in panic mode since I started using vidrush. It makes great videos in a few hours and also create thumbnail for it. The editing is better than 70% of my editors.”
Osas King
· VidRush customer
Vidrush is for you if you want good quality videos fast
“Vidrush is great because it cuts video production time down by a lot. With a few prompts or even your own custom script, you can get a video done in around a couple hours, versus possibly days with a normal video editor.”
Pic Jr
· VidRush customer
World-Class Tool, World-Class Support
“VidRush has become the backbone of my entire production workflow. The voice quality, imagery, and video output are genuinely impressive, everything comes out looking and sounding professional without the hours of manual editing other tools require.”
Cam Conkle
· VidRush customer
Vidrush is Lifechanging
“Vidrush is insane, I've gotten multiple bangers and made my money back so early that every video afterwards is just playing with house money (one vid hit 1.3M views early on and I barely knew what I was doing back then).”
Gabby
· VidRush customer
+4 for tech, -5 for costs.
“I used 10k credits and almost all of my allocaed $15 extra budget on 1.5 videos (approx 50 seconds of video in total).”
Livio
· Luma user
I believe this site is a scam
“The free trial produced great results, but as soon as I paid for a subscription, the quality dropped dramatically while consuming a huge number of credits.”
Diego Ruiz Diaz
· Luma user
Poor prompt implementation
“Tried this tool and it is impossible to polish or improve a video past the initial prompt. Initial one, if detailed enough it will work out more or less ok but any changes will require starting from scratch (otherwise you burn through your credits ).”
santi hermosa
· Luma user
Absolutely Scammers.. Save yourself and dont Sign up
“I signed up for Trial and then Cancelled before trial expired. They still chrged me $9.99. I asked for refund and said pls cancel. They said they ll look into it but no response after that and i got charged again. Its been 4 months and they keep on charging.”
VirtualHome Photography
· Luma user
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VidRush's Quote Statement shows format, length, voice and estimated credits up front, and credits come off only when the video completes.
