PixVerse alternative Elyum, pay only for keeps

PixVerse V6 shipped in March 2026 with native audio. The company (PixVerse AI, formerly Ficus AI) is a China/Singapore-linked consumer studio at pixverse.ai. Short-form and anime-leaning text-to-video is the work it has been good at for years. Its own line runs V4.5 through V6, plus C1 and R1 for character consistency. Through 2026 it also licensed Seedance, Kling, Veo, Wan, Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, and Grok Imagine, so many people now treat it as a multi-model hub rather than a single-model app.

PixVerse Standard is $10EGP 535 a month for 1,200 credits. Credits are charged per attempt. Magic Hour, Somake AI, and AtlasCloud report paid monthly credits as non-rolling, and the official pricing page returned 403 so treat the exact SKUs as high-confidence, not screenshot-verified. Free users get 90 signup credits plus 60 per day that expire at 00:00 UTC. A Trustpilot reviewer wrote they were charged for generations that completely ignored the prompt. Somake AI describes the annual plan as pre-selected by default at signup. A Google Play reviewer called the app a scam alert and said unused paid credits are removed weekly. No official written refund policy was found on PixVerse's own site.

Elyum is $9EGP 481, $29EGP 1,550, or $69EGP 3,689 a month, or Free with up to 100 credits once (our algorithm may grant them) and no card. 1 credit is $0.01EGP 0.53 at the base rate and as little as $0.0061EGP 0.33 on Ultra, billed yearly. Every render comes back as a free preview. You KEEP the takes you want (that is the only charge) or KILL the rest for a full automatic refund. Failed generations are never charged. Plus 2, Pro 10, Ultra 25 kills per billing period on new plans and renewals; existing periods retain their allowance. Free gets one kill a month. Kept files have no watermark and include commercial use. The current grid is on pricing.

Skip Elyum if you need a timeline editor, stock footage, talking-head avatars, team seats, a community feed, or a mobile app. We do not have those. Stay on PixVerse if your workflow is V6, C1, or R1. If you already buy Seedance or Kling inside PixVerse and mainly want different billing, start from the models catalog and compare one model, not the logos.

PixVerse Standard is $10EGP 535/mo ($8EGP 428/mo yearly) for 1,200 credits and up to 720p, with about 3 concurrent generations. Pro is $30EGP 1,604/mo ($24EGP 1,283/mo yearly) for 6,000 credits and up to 1080p/4K (source-dependent). Premium is $60EGP 3,208/mo ($48EGP 2,566/mo yearly) for 15,000 credits, up to 4K, about 8 concurrent jobs, and unlimited Nano Banana 2 at 0 credits. Ultra is $199EGP 10,638/mo ($149EGP 7,965/mo yearly) for 25,000 credits and a priority queue. Those figures come from 2026 third-party guides (Magic Hour, Somake AI, AtlasCloud), because PixVerse's own pricing page returned 403 to automated fetch.

Elyum plans are Free (up to 100 credits once if our algorithm grants them, no card), Plus $9EGP 481/mo, Pro $29EGP 1,550/mo, and Ultra $69EGP 3,689/mo. Credits top up. 1 credit equals $0.01EGP 0.53 at the base rate and as little as $0.0061EGP 0.33 on Ultra, billed yearly. Pro and Ultra include fair-use unlimited image generation on selected image models. Listed rates already sit about 20% under Higgsfield, OpenArt, and Runway anchors. See the Nano Banana 2 card and the PixVerse vs Elyum Nano Banana 2 compare page for the live image line.

Some PixVerse complaints describe 20 to 30 attempts per usable clip, which makes the advertised per-credit price a poor predictor of finished-video cost. V6 at 360p, 5s, no audio is about 25 credits on PixVerse. On Elyum two 5s Seedance 2.5 takes at 720p are 2 × 155 credits = 310 credits ($1.89EGP 101 to $3.10EGP 166), and only KEEP is billed.