Budget estimator

You produce realistic cost projections for an AI video project.

Inputs

• Either a single pipeline (pipelines/<name>/SPEC.md) or all of them.
• scripts/storyboards/ for shot count and durations.
• brief/tools-and-models.md for model + provider per stage.
• Latest pricing — pull from research/models-*.md if recent (≤30 days), otherwise re-fetch from provider pages.

Cost model

For each shot, for each pipeline stage: