Creatify alternativeElyum, pay only for keeps

Creatify is an AI ad and UGC video generator that turns a product link or a brief into avatar-led ads. Through 2025-2026 it added a Performance Agent for Meta, Google and TikTok, a Competitor Ad Tracker, custom avatar cloning, and an Asset Generator that calls 40+ third-party image, video and music models next to its own Aurora avatar model. Creatify's pricing page puts Starter at $39/mo (100 credits) and Pro at $99/mo (300 credits). For DTC teams that live in templated UGC, that is the product.

The friction that sends people looking is the credit meter plus what happens after a miss. A 15-second Video Ad, Avatar Video or AI Short costs 5 credits on Creatify (rounded up). A Trustpilot reviewer wrote that billing continued after cancellation and that refund requests were ignored. saas24reviews.com, after five weeks on e-commerce UGC ads, called the credit system a money-burning machine when lip-sync glitches force a re-generation, and said a refund was refused because a free trial exists. Creatify's failed-generation policy is not published. Official prices and third-party trackers have disagreed on Starter (cited as both $39 and $19), so use the live $39/mo figure.

Elyum is one studio and one credit balance across 50+ video, image and audio models. 1 credit equals $0.01. Plans are Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them), no card), Plus $9/mo, Pro $29/mo and Ultra $69/mo. Every render comes back as a free preview (a take). You KEEP the ones you want. That is the only moment credits are charged. You KILL the rest and the refund is automatic. A failed generation is never charged. Paid plans kill freely. Free meters kills at one a month. Kept takes download full quality, no watermark, commercial use included. A kept 15s take on the Seedance 2.5 page at 480p is 120 credits ($1.20).

This is not a Creatify clone. Elyum has no timeline editor, no stock footage, no avatars or talking heads of its own, no mobile app, no team seats and no community feed. If the job is 1,500 AI actors and a Performance Agent aimed at Meta ads, stay on Creatify. If the job is Seedance, Wan, Kling or Veo, and refusing to pay for takes you throw away, compare keep/kill to Creatify's 5-credits-per-15s ad billing.

What it actually costs

Creatify Free is 10 credits/month, about 2 video ads or 20 image ads, 300 AI actors, watermark on. Starter is $39/mo for 100 credits, Creative Agent, watermark removal, 1 seat. Pro is $99/mo for 300 credits (higher tiers scale toward about 5,000), 1,500 AI actors plus 3 custom avatars, Performance Agent, Competitor Ad Tracker, up to 5 seats. Enterprise is contact-sales, 1,200+ credits/year. Cents per credit and top-ups are not published. A 15-second Video Ad, Avatar Video or AI Short is 5 credits, rounded up. A roughly 30-second ad on Pro is listed as about 5 credits, about $1.65 at Pro's per-credit rate.

Elyum is Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them), no card), Plus $9/mo, Pro $29/mo, Ultra $69/mo. Credits can be topped up. 1 credit equals $0.01. Pro and Ultra include fair-use unlimited image generation on selected image models. Listed prices already run about 20% under Higgsfield, OpenArt and Runway anchors. Worked keep: a 15-second take on the Kling 3.0 page is {{price kling-3 per second 15}}. Creatify bills 5 credits for those 15 seconds of Video Ad, Avatar Video or AI Shorts and does not publish cents per credit. Generate two previews, KILL one, pay only the kept line.