Generate Veo3 videos on fal.ai: How do you avoid Google’s high prices?

You want access to Google’s Veo3, one of the best AI video models out right now, but you don’t want to shell out $250 or wrestle with Google’s whole cloud setup to get it. 🤙 I recently walked through the entire process of generating Veo3 videos on fal.ai and honestly it’s way more accessible than most people realize. 😎

If you’ve been assuming Veo3 is locked behind some enterprise paywall, you’re wrong. I’m going to show you exactly how I did it, quirks and all, so you can skip the guesswork.

What Is fal.ai and Why Should You Care?

So first things first. fal.ai is a cloud platform that gives you API access to a bunch of different generative AI models. It’s basically a marketplace for AI tools, except you’re not locked into any one thing.

They have a ton of different APIs you can use. It’s not just Veo3, you can use a ton. When you click over to their Explore page you’ll see models for image generation, video generation, upscaling, you name it.

Kling is on there too, which is cheaper if you’re just experimenting or don’t need the absolute top-tier output. There’s a lot of flexibility here.

The big selling point? No subscriptions. It’s a credit-based system, so you load up credits, you use what you need, you’re done. For people who aren’t generating hundreds of videos a month, this is way better than paying a flat monthly fee for something you might barely touch.

And the API access means you can plug this into n8n and automation workflows, Python scripts, or whatever stack you’re running. That alone makes it worth checking out.

Getting Started: Add Credits and Find Veo3

The setup is dead simple. Go to fal.ai, create an account, and add some credits. That’s it. No sales calls, no waiting for approval, no “contact us for pricing” nonsense—unless you want competitive API pricing for high volume, which is a different conversation entirely.

Once you’re in, navigate to the Veo3 model page. You’ll see it described as “the most advanced AI video generation model in the world” which sure, that’s marketing, but Veo3’s output quality is genuinely impressive.

The page has several tabs: Playground, API, Examples, Requests, and Analytics. We’re going to spend most of our time in Playground.

Two Ways to Input Your Prompts

This is where it gets fun. fal.ai gives you two ways to tell Veo3 what you want.

The form method is the easy route. You click on the form tab and you see all the parameters laid out: prompt field, aspect ratio, duration, negative prompts, enhance prompt toggle, audio toggle. Fill it in and hit Run. Simple.

The JSON method is where things get interesting for more technically minded folks. The reason this is cool is because you can have ChatGPT create the JSON you need, copy it, and paste it in.

I genuinely love this workflow. You describe what you want, it spits out structured JSON with the parameters, and you paste it right into fal.ai.

For my demo I stuck with the form because I was just throwing something random together to show how fast it works. But if you’re doing anything production-level, or you want repeatable, precise control over prompts, JSON is the move.

The Settings That Actually Matter

Before you hit Run, there are a few settings worth paying attention to. These toggles affect cost and output more than people expect.

Aspect ratio defaults to widescreen (16:9), though the fast endpoint also supports 9:16 for vertical video. Duration tops out at 8 seconds right now, which is standard for this generation of models—that’s a Veo3 limit, not a fal.ai limit.

Enhance prompt is a toggle I recommend leaving on if your prompt is short or vague. It takes your prompt, runs it through a language model, and expands it with more descriptive detail. If you already wrote a detailed prompt, turn it off.

Generate audio is the big cost differentiator. Audio-on means your video includes sound (dialogue, ambience, etc.) inferred from your prompt, and it costs more per second.

My Live Demo: A Dog, a Fish, and the Mediterranean

Alright, so here’s where I went completely off-script. I typed in: “A dog holding a fish saying, ‘that’s not a chicken?’ The setting is in a boat and it is in the Mediterranean.”

I have no idea why I chose that. Literally no idea. But it was just to show the speed and power of generating something on the fly.

I left enhance prompt on, turned audio on, and hit Run. It took a little longer than the two minutes I expected, but it did generate. And the result?

The model interpreted the dialogue as a person on the boat saying the line, not the dog. Which is reasonable because dogs don’t talk. But the image still looked amazing.

The setting read as Mediterranean, and the boat even had a Greek-looking color scheme. The water, the lighting, all of it checked out.

The whole generation, 8 seconds with audio, cost me about five or six dollars based on my credit balance before and after. Not free, but for a premium AI video model, that’s reasonable for experimentation and one-off projects.

The Dashboard Features You’ll Actually Use

After you generate a few videos, the Requests tab becomes really useful. It’s basically your history, every generation you’ve run, with the ability to click into each one and see the full timeline.

I was surprised by how detailed it was. You can see when the request was submitted, when it started warming up, the input you provided, and the output file with a direct URL to your generated video.

That URL is live and downloadable, which is great for pulling results into other workflows.

The Analytics tab shows your total requests and usage data. One thing I noticed: it seemed to only track Veo3 calls, not other endpoints like the upscaler. I had four total requests but only three showed up in Veo3 analytics because one was an upscale call.

Minor detail, but worth knowing if your numbers look off.

Why fal.ai Over Google’s Own Tools?

The answer is obvious if you’re an individual creator, a small team, or just someone who wants to play with Veo3 without committing to a whole infrastructure. fal.ai is the shortcut to a premium model that would otherwise require more overhead.

And if Veo3 is overkill for what you need, Kling is right there on the same platform, cheaper, and still produces solid results for a lot of use cases. You can switch models quickly and experiment without changing tools.

Final Thoughts

So that’s it. fal.ai is one of the fastest ways I’ve found to get your hands on Veo3 without dealing with Google’s enterprise pricing or jumping through cloud configuration hoops.

You load credits, write a prompt (or have ChatGPT write JSON), hit Run, and you’ve got production-quality AI video in a couple minutes.

The pay-as-you-go model means you’re never paying for capacity you don’t use, and having access to other models like Kling on the same platform makes it that much better. It’s ideal for experimentation and lightweight production.

If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines waiting for Veo3 to become accessible, go set up an account, throw $10 in credits at it, and run some ridiculous prompts. You’ll be surprised how good the output is, even for silly ideas like a dog holding a fish in the Mediterranean.