Numbers from running faceless YouTube channels with AI tools
We run four faceless channels and publish books with AI voices, AI images and a coding agent doing the assembly. Each article here answers one sizing question with figures from our own production logs, so you can pick a plan from your schedule instead of guessing.
How many Higgsfield credits does a YouTube thumbnail or an illustrated video cost? Numbers from our logs Credits per thumbnail, per 11-to-18-minute illustrated video and per animated clip, from our own generation logs, and what a monthly allowance covers. Checked 13 November 2026. Which ElevenLabs plan do you need for a faceless YouTube channel? Numbers from 54 videos Characters per video, characters per spoken minute, which plan covers which publishing schedule, and two things the pricing page will not tell you. Checked 7 November 2026.What this site is
- Only tools we actually use in production. No ranking of things we have not run.
- Our own logs, not estimates copied from other sites. Where we have to convert (for example Japanese to English script length), we say so.
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