Lumen5 Pricing 2026: Plans, Limits and Real Costs
Vorec Team · 2026-10-20 · About 6 min read
Lumen5's pricing page has five plans, but the headline prices only tell part of the story. The yearly toggle says "save 25%", yet on the Basic plan the yearly saving works out to more than a third. And the "unlimited videos" on every paid plan sits alongside fixed monthly allowances of AI voice minutes, animation minutes and translations.
We read Lumen5's pricing page in a browser on 20 October 2026, in both monthly and yearly billing, and took each reading twice. Every figure below comes from that capture. Where we calculated something, such as an annual total or a cost per AI voice minute, we show the arithmetic so you can check it.
Verified 20 October 2026 from the rendered Lumen5 pricing page. Prices are shown in USD. We didn't visit checkout, so tax and the final billed amount are not confirmed.
Lumen5 pricing at a glance
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly (per month) | Max resolution | Videos | Max video length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 720p | 5 per month | 2 min |
| Basic | $29 | $19 | 720p | Unlimited | 10 min |
| Starter | $79 | $59 | 1080p | Unlimited | 10 min |
| Pro | $199 | $149 | 1080p | Unlimited | 10 min |
| Team | Not shown in the monthly table | Custom (contact sales) | 1080p | Unlimited | 10 min |
Lumen5 positions itself as a way to "turn blog posts, scripts, and ideas" into video. The Free plan is labelled $0 forever rather than a time-limited trial. Free, Basic, Starter and Pro are single-user plans. Team is for multiple users, and the page doesn't give a minimum seat count.
What yearly billing actually saves
The page shows a per-month price for yearly billing but not the annual total. We multiplied it out:
| Plan | Monthly × 12 | Yearly price × 12 | You save | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $29 × 12 = $348 | $19 × 12 = $228 | $120 | about 34% |
| Starter | $79 × 12 = $948 | $59 × 12 = $708 | $240 | about 25% |
| Pro | $199 × 12 = $2,388 | $149 × 12 = $1,788 | $600 | about 25% |
The toggle's "save 25%" matches Starter and Pro, at about 25%. On Basic the arithmetic gives about 34% ($120 ÷ $348 ≈ 34.5%). These annual totals are our calculation. We didn't see them on the page or at checkout.
The allowances that matter more than "unlimited videos"
Every paid plan says unlimited videos. The AI features that make those videos are metered:
| Allowance | Free | Basic | Starter | Pro | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI voice minutes | 2/month | 20/month | 60/month | 180/month | Custom |
| Animation minutes | — | 1/month | 2/month | 5/month | Custom |
| Voice clones | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | Custom |
| Translations | — | 1/month | 1/month | 5/month | Unlimited |
On yearly billing the page lists the same allowances per year: 24, 240, 720 and 2,160 AI voice minutes, and 12, 24 and 60 animation minutes. Translations become 12 a year on Basic and Starter and 60 on Pro.
So "unlimited videos" means you can make as many videos as you like. It does not mean unlimited AI narration. A team narrating every video with AI voice on Basic has 20 minutes a month to spread across all of them.
Cost per included AI voice minute
This is a rough way to compare tiers if AI narration is what you're buying. It is our arithmetic, and it treats the whole plan price as if it paid only for voice minutes, which it doesn't:
| Plan | Monthly price ÷ minutes | Yearly price ÷ minutes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $29 ÷ 20 = $1.45 | $19 ÷ 20 = $0.95 |
| Starter | $79 ÷ 60 ≈ $1.32 | $59 ÷ 60 ≈ $0.98 |
| Pro | $199 ÷ 180 ≈ $1.11 | $149 ÷ 180 ≈ $0.83 |
The page doesn't say what extra AI usage costs beyond these allowances. We list that as unresolved below.
Branding, watermarks and resolution
- Free videos carry a Lumen5-branded outro.
- Basic removes Lumen5 branding, but exports top out at 720p, the same as Free.
- Starter is the first plan with 1080p, plus a customisable brand kit.
- Pro is where uploading your own custom watermark starts, according to the feature table.
- Team adds custom AI usage, collaboration and review, and SSO, behind a contact-sales gate.
If you need 1080p, the cheapest route is Starter at $59 a month billed yearly or $79 monthly.
What we could not confirm
- Storage limits on any plan.
- The minimum number of seats on Team, and its price.
- What additional AI voice, animation or translation usage costs once an allowance runs out.
- Tax and the final amount billed at checkout.
Lumen5 vs a screen-recording workflow
Lumen5 builds videos from text: blog posts, scripts and ideas, assembled with stock media and AI voice. That suits marketing and social video. If what you need to show is software on screen, such as a product walkthrough, an onboarding flow or a support how-to, the input is a screen recording rather than a script.
That is the job Vorec does. Vorec records your screen, with its own macOS recorder or from a recording you upload, drafts narration matched to the workflow it captured, and generates the voiceover, so nothing is spoken into a microphone. In the editor you can add smooth cursor motion, cursor-follow zoom and click-based auto-zoom, and freeze-sync can hold a frame to give an explanation time to finish. The same capture can also produce a written step-by-step guide with annotatable screenshots.
Vorec's plans, read from our live plan catalogue on 20 October 2026:
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Credits | Export |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | $0, 7 days | — | 100 in total for the trial | 1080p, watermarked |
| Starter | $9 | $86 | 500 a month for the first 3 months, then 150 a month | 1080p |
| Pro | $24 | $230 | 1,500 a month for the first 3 months, then 500 a month | 4K |
| Business | $59 | $566 | 5,000 a month for the first 3 months, then 1,500 a month | 4K |
Trial includes up to 3 projects; exports carry a watermark. More detail is on the Vorec pricing page.
For other tools in this space, see our verified Pictory pricing, InVideo AI pricing and Synthesia pricing breakdowns, or the cross-vendor video tool pricing study.
Quick answers
How much does Lumen5 cost?
On 20 October 2026: Free at $0, Basic at $29 a month ($19 a month billed yearly), Starter at $79 ($59 yearly) and Pro at $199 ($149 yearly). Team is priced on request.
Does Lumen5 have a free plan?
Yes. Free is labelled $0 forever, with 5 videos a month, a 2-minute maximum length, 720p export, 2 AI voice minutes a month and a Lumen5-branded outro.
Which Lumen5 plan removes the watermark?
Basic removes Lumen5 branding. Uploading your own custom watermark starts on Pro, according to the feature table.
Which Lumen5 plan exports in 1080p?
Starter and above. Free and Basic export at 720p.
Is Lumen5 really unlimited?
Paid plans allow unlimited videos, but on Basic, Starter and Pro the AI voice minutes, animation minutes, voice clones and translations are capped. On monthly billing the page shows the caps per month. On yearly billing it shows them as yearly allowances, and it doesn't say whether those reset monthly. Team's AI usage is custom and its translations are unlimited.
How much do you save with Lumen5 yearly billing?
By our arithmetic, $120 a year on Basic (about 34%), $240 on Starter (about 25%) and $600 on Pro (about 25%).
Want the recording to narrate itself? Record with Vorec, or upload one you already have, and get a narrated tutorial plus a written guide. Start free. 7-day trial, 100 credits, no credit card required. Trial includes up to 3 projects; exports carry a watermark.