AI in After Effects, without credits or markup.
Summon has two separate costs. The license pays for the panel. Generations run on your own fal.ai account and are billed by fal.ai at its listed prices. Summon sells no credits, includes no generation in any plan and adds no markup.
The license pays for the panel
Every plan is the full panel: all tabs, all models, the Model Manager, history and spend tracking.
- Individual: $119 a year. One person, up to 2 computers. Launch sale: $89.99 for the first year if you buy by October 23.
- Studio: $349 a year. Five people, each with their own key.
- Founding Lifetime: $399 once. One person, limited numbers at launch.
- Project Pass: $39 once. One person for 30 days, credited toward an Individual license if you upgrade within 60 days.
Every installation starts with a 7-day free trial of the full panel, with no Summon account or payment card required. How the plans work has the details.
Generations: your own fal.ai account
Summon runs the models through fal.ai on your own API key. fal.ai bills every generation to your account at its listed prices, during the trial too. Summon does not resell compute, sells no credits and adds no markup: a model costs the same in Summon as it does on fal.ai.
Two numbers for every generation
- Before: the estimated cost under the settings, calculated from the model's price and your settings. Why this price? shows the calculation.
- After: the billed amount in the result's Info, when fal.ai reports it for that model.
In the full tutorial, a 2K character sheet from Nano Banana Pro had a recorded cost of 15 cents. Prices are set by fal.ai and can change; the final charge is always what fal.ai bills.
Track spend per project, and bill it to the client
Spend in Settings shows what your generations cost in this project and in all projects. Create log (CSV) exports every generation of the project with its date, model, settings and cost, so you can pass AI costs on to a client with an actual export instead of a guess. With the optional Admin fal.ai key, Refresh shows your real account spending and remaining balance.
Upscaling
Local upscaling runs through your own installed Topaz apps, free with your existing Topaz license. Cloud upscaling runs on fal.ai like any generation.
See it in the tutorials
Questions
- Do I need a subscription?
- No. Founding Lifetime and Project Pass are one-time payments; Individual and Studio renew yearly and can be cancelled any time. Generations are never a subscription: you pay fal.ai for what you generate.
- Are there credits to buy?
- Not from Summon. You add a balance or a payment method to your fal.ai account, and fal.ai bills each generation.
- What does the trial cost?
- Summon is free for 7 days, with no payment card. Generating during the trial uses your own fal.ai key, billed by fal.ai.
- Can I get a refund?
- Every purchase and every renewal charge has a 7-day money-back window, no questions asked.