Lumen5 turns a blog post into a brand marketing video. Checked on 2026-10-17, that job is a B2B and brand cut. A channel autopilot was not observed. This note is for people who already have the article and will upload the file to YouTube, or recut it for Shorts or TikTok. Figures come from lumen5.com/pricing. The home page is lumen5.com. A limit the extract omitted is not observed.

Who it's for

Lumen5 fits marketers and small brand teams who trust a written post and want a short video companion. Free allows 5 videos a month, each up to 2 minutes, at 720p, with a branded outro, plus 24 AI voice minutes for the year.

A monthly video-minute explainer is Pictory. Voice-first Shorts volume is Fliki. A prompt on a timeline, with Seedance gated by plan, is InVideo. Create-then-post cadence sits on Revid, Faceless.so, or AutoShorts. Generated shots belong on Kling, Runway, Luma, Pika, Seedance, or Higgsfield. A presenter is HeyGen, a cast-led ad is Creatify, and a voice with no picture is ElevenLabs. Captions and a vertical reframe finish in CapCut.

What it does

A blog goes in and a marketing video comes out. The printed gates are a free picture cap and two yearly media pools, in the table below. The card does not define a voice minute or an animation minute. Free animation minutes were not observed.

Scene controls, stock size, template counts, a brand kit, captions, music, languages, and a scheduler were not observed on 2026-10-17. Paid rows did not reprint Free's video count, 2-minute cap, 720p, or branded outro. Commercial-rights language was not observed, so confirm a B2B license at checkout.

Pricing tiers

Verified on 2026-10-17 at lumen5.com/pricing. Dollar stickers are yearly-billed monthly rates. A month-to-month price and an annual invoice total were not observed. Checkout is the bill. Team is custom: voice minutes, animation minutes, seats, and a dollar floor were not observed.

Plan	Yearly-billed sticker	AI voice	Animation
Free	Free	24 min/year	not observed
Basic	$19/mo yearly	240 min/year	12 min/year
Starter	$59/mo yearly	720 min/year	24 min/year
Pro	$149/mo yearly	2,160 min/year	60 min/year
Team	Custom	not observed	not observed

Free's picture gates — 5 videos a month, 2 minutes, 720p, branded outro — were not repeated on the paid rows.

From Basic upward, voice triples at each step (240, then 720, then 2,160). Animation doubles from 12 to 24, then goes to 60, which is two and a half times 24. Narration meets the voice pool first. Motion with a short read meets the animation pool first. No monthly grant was printed. Spread evenly, those voice pools are 20, 60, and 180 minutes a month. Lump-sum use, rollover, and a calendar year versus a billing year were not observed.

On Free the meters can disagree. Five videos at 2 minutes is 10 minutes of picture a month, or 120 minutes if every slot for a year is full. Voice is 24 minutes for the year. Twelve fully narrated 2-minute videos would empty that pool, if one voice minute equals one minute of speech, while 60 video slots remain. The page did not confirm that equality. Overage, top-ups, and a separate credit were not observed.

Pros

Free names a picture cap and a 24-minute yearly voice pool on the same card.
Paid stickers sit beside both yearly pools, so voice and animation can be compared before checkout.
From Basic to Pro, the voice multiple is larger than the animation multiple.
Team stays custom, with no guessed enterprise price.

Cons

Paid rows omit video count, length, resolution, and the outro. Whether those free gates survive checkout was not observed.
Both media pools are yearly, and a minute is undefined, so a monthly calendar needs an assumption.
Free animation minutes were not observed, so a zero-dollar motion test has no printed budget.
A public API base URL was not observed, and an official MCP server URL was not observed.
Commercial rights, month-to-month prices, and the annual invoice total were not observed.

Usage flow

Start from a blog post on Free: 5 videos in the month, 2 minutes each, 720p, a branded outro, and 24 voice minutes for the year.
Move to Basic ($19/mo), Starter ($59/mo), or Pro ($149/mo), each when billed yearly, when the voice pool or the animation pool is the limit you can name. Team inclusions were not observed.
Export, then caption and reframe in CapCut. Move a failed read to ElevenLabs, and replace a missing shot in Kling, Runway, or Luma.

Workflow usage

On faceless, Lumen5 takes the first visual pass when the source is an article and the yearly pools cover narration and motion. Generated shots stay on Kling, Runway, or Seedance. The branded outro is a closing card. Add any spoken disclosure yourself before upload.

On long-to-short, a clipper was not observed. Hooks and reframes finish in CapCut. A blog recap can still enter Lumen5 under the free 2-minute cap until a paid length is confirmed.

On captions-cover, caption style and covers were not observed. Burn captions in CapCut. On ai-avatar use HeyGen. On ugc-ads use Creatify.

On voice-publish, the read stops at the yearly voice pool. A clone, or a commercial-license line this extract did not print, belongs on ElevenLabs. Posting stays a manual upload.

Underlying models

No video model and no speech model was named on the pricing extract. Lumen5 is not a host for Kling, Seedance, Runway Gen, Luma Ray, or Veo. Animation minutes are a plan meter, not a model name. Speech is only the label "AI voice." Vendor, voice count, cloning, and languages were not observed. Choose the voice on ElevenLabs when the speaker is the decision.

API and MCP

has_api is false. A public HTTP API, with a base URL, auth scheme, and docs page, was not observed on 2026-10-17, so this entry has no api_url. No official MCP server URL was observed, so mcp.official is false.

For a documented call, use Runway, Kling, HeyGen, or ElevenLabs. In this batch, Revid described API, MCP, and a CLI on every plan, and Faceless.so described API and a hosted MCP on Ultra and Agency.

Similar tools

Pictory is the nearer blog, script, and URL explainer: 200, 600, and 1,800 video minutes a month, with annual display prices of $25, $35, and $119. Lumen5 meters yearly voice and animation minutes and prints a free video cap.
Fliki is voice-first Shorts. Free there was 3 credits a month, watermarked, at 720p. Dollar stickers were not observed.
InVideo is the prompt-and-timeline hybrid. Annual display started at $10 per seat per month, with Seedance gated by plan.
Revid, Faceless.so, and AutoShorts publish on a cadence after the cut exists.
CapCut finishes the cut. Pika and Luma replace a shot when animation minutes are the wrong meter.

FAQ

Are $19, $59, and $149 month-to-month prices?

They are yearly-billed monthly rates checked on 2026-10-17. A month-to-month sticker and a twelve-times annual charge were not observed. Pay checkout. Team has no dollar figure in this extract.

How many videos does a paid plan include?

Only Free printed a count: 5 videos a month, 2 minutes, 720p, branded outro. Paid rows omitted count, length, and resolution. Treat "unlimited" as not observed.

Can Free narrate every video the counter allows?

Voice on Free is 24 minutes for the year. Five maxed videos are 10 minutes of picture in one month. If speech spends the voice meter one-for-one, a few 2-minute narrations empty the yearly pool while video slots remain. The card does not define the minute, and rollover was not observed.

Does Lumen5 have an API or an official MCP server?

Neither was observed on 2026-10-17, so has_api and mcp.official are false. Revid documented API, MCP, and a CLI on every plan. Faceless.so documented both on Ultra and Agency.

Is Lumen5 a TikTok or Shorts autopilot?

The checked job is a blog-to-brand marketing video. A scheduler was not observed. YouTube, TikTok, and Shorts are upload destinations. Cadence tools are Revid, Faceless.so, and AutoShorts.

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