What's a “viewed minute”? Pay-per-view screen recording, explained
Rec's pricing page is one number: $0.02 per viewed minute. One number invites questions, so here are the exact mechanics, the same ones implemented in our billing code.
The unit
1 credit = 1 viewed minute = $0.02. When someone who is not you watches your video, each started minute uses one credit from your workspace's pool. A 3-minute video watched by 5 people is 15 viewed minutes, or 30 cents. Watching your own recordings is always free, and recording itself is free and unlimited. No cap on length or count, no watermark.
What's free every month
Every workspace gets 30 free credits monthly. They reset on the 1st, a fresh 30 whether you used last month's or not. Paid credits are different: they roll over indefinitely. Free credits are always spent first.
What AI features draw from the pool
- •Transcription. 1 credit per video minute, charged once per recording. Summaries, chapters, and search indexing ride along free.
- •AI voiceover and dubs. 2 credits per video minute per language, charged when you generate. If generation fails, credits are refunded automatically.
- •Everything else. $0. No AI tier, no per-seat charge, no feature gates between free and paid.
Staying in control of spend
Two ways to add credits: a one-time top-up (from $5, which buys 250 minutes), or a monthly budget (say $10 for 500 minutes) charged on the 1st, with unused credits rolling over. Budgets are not contracts. Change or cancel anytime, and credits you bought stay yours. If a video of yours takes off, Rec emails you at view milestones so growth never surprises you on an invoice.