Free, with no account balance
The whole editor. Build and preview as much as you like. All 372 templates across 16 shelves, the full editor, keyframes, sound, 3D, the AI copilot on your own provider key, and channel import — none of it asks for payment.
- · Every template and every editing tool
- · Preview, sound, AI and channel import
- · Export one graphic for $5 — in the cloud or on your own machine
One graphic — $5
A single payment unlocks that project for good: any format, any size, and as many exports as you need — including a re-export months later when you change a word. It is priced per graphic rather than per render, so an export that fails does not cost twice and a second format of the same graphic is not a second purchase. The price shown is the price you pay: nothing is added at checkout.
Plans
From 3 graphics in a month the Creator plan is already the cheaper of the two, which is the whole of the arithmetic you need to choose.
Creator
For one person publishing regularly.
$15 / month
or $150 a year — $12.50/month, billed yearly
- · 100 exports a month, 5 of them 4K or ProRes
- · Up to 5 exports in flight at once
- · Everything in Free
Studio
For an agency working in it daily.
$35 / month
or $350 a year — $29.17/month, billed yearly
- · 200 exports a month, 15 of them 4K or ProRes
- · Exports served ahead of the queue
- · Up to 20 exports in flight at once
Cancel whenever you like — a plan runs to the end of what you have already paid for, and the graphics you unlocked with a one-off payment stay yours whatever plan you are on. Plans are per account: CtaYou has no shared team workspace yet, so an agency of three buys three.
What the payment is actually for
Rendering is the only part of CtaYou that costs real money to run — processor time and the bytes that carry the finished file to you. Everything else is drawn in your own browser. Charging for the export and nothing else means the line you feel and the line the bill feels are the same line, and it is why the editor can stay free rather than free for a fortnight.
Transparent formats are the clearest example. No browser can encode a video with a transparent background, so ProRes 4444 and WebM with alpha have to be rendered for you — which is also exactly what a video editor needs to drop a graphic over footage without keying it.
Still deciding?
Nothing here asks for a card before you have seen what you are buying. Open a template, change it, and watch it play — the payment only appears when you ask for the file.
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