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Gatsbyai vs Marigold Pet

Generating short text-to-video and image-to-video clips across four model families from one browser workspace, with the credit cost of each run shown before you spend it · Pet owners who want a finished, shareable Halloween video of their own animal and would rather pay $6.99 once than learn a prompt box or a video editor. The preset-look model is the point: four costumes, two aspect ratios, no free-form prompt, no timeline. Not a fit for anyone who wants to direct the scene, needs more than one video for the money, wants a free trial before paying, or needs a named company, postal address or contractual jurisdiction to buy from.

Decision pointGatsbyAIMarigold Pet
Best forGenerating short text-to-video and image-to-video clips across four model families from one browser workspace, with the credit cost of each run shown before you spend itPet owners who want a finished, shareable Halloween video of their own animal and would rather pay $6.99 once than learn a prompt box or a video editor. The preset-look model is the point: four costumes, two aspect ratios, no free-form prompt, no timeline. Not a fit for anyone who wants to direct the scene, needs more than one video for the money, wants a free trial before paying, or needs a named company, postal address or contractual jurisdiction to buy from.
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PriceLite $19.98/mo or $119.88/yr (2,000 credits a month); Pro $39.98/mo or $239.88/yr (5,000); Ultra $77.98/mo or $467.88/yr (10,000); one-time packs 1,500 credits $29.90, 3,000 $49.90, 5,000 $69.90, 8,000 $99.90; two free guest generations a day and 10 daily credits for a signed-in accountSingle price, no tiers and no subscription: USD 6.99 one-time for one 15-second video (portrait 9:16 or landscape 16:9, one of four preset looks, AI-generated synchronised audio, MP4 download). No free tier or trial; the page's samples are the vendor's own renders. Checkout is hosted by Waffo Pancake as merchant of record; applicable tax is shown before payment. The site's own public config endpoint returns price 6.99, currency USD, billing one-time, mode prod - matching /pricing and the homepage.
AIToolsEssentials editorial score3.8/54.0/5

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GatsbyAI

Lite $19.98/month or $119.88 billed annually ($9.99/month equivalent, 2,000 credits a month); Pro $39.98/month or $239.88 annually ($19.99 equivalent, 5,000 credits); Ultra $77.98/month or $467.88 annually ($38.99 equivalent, 10,000 credits). The page states the yearly option as 50% off and the arithmetic is exact against twelve times the monthly price. One-time credit packs: 1,500 credits $29.90, 3,000 $49.90, 5,000 $69.90, 8,000 $99.90, valid six months, with 50% bonus credits for active subscribers. Subscription credits refresh to the monthly allowance and do not accumulate; failed generations release reserved daily credits and return charged credits. Free access: two generations a day for guests and 10 daily credits for signed-in accounts, with the default Seedance 2.0 Mini generation costing 5 credits.

Official sources checked 2026-10-21

Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-22 03:38 UTC (2026-10-21 20:38 PDT); editorial entry written independently from live pages the same working day. Plan prices were read from the rendered yearly cards on /pricing, cross-checked against the site's own llms.txt, and the monthly-billed equivalents ($19.98 / $39.98 / $77.98) plus the four credit-pack prices were read from the shipped plan config inside the served Next.js chunks, because the Monthly and Credit Packs tabs of the pricing page render client-side and carry no figures in the served HTML. Free-tier claims verified from the public credits endpoint (/api/ai-video/credits returns dailyLimit 2 for an anonymous visitor) rather than from marketing copy. /privacy (last updated 2026-10-09) and /terms (2026-10-13) read in full; neither names an operator, jurisdiction or governing law, the privacy policy names no processor and no retention period, and GA4 G-GDTETMSPS7 loads on both policy pages with no consent control. Contact route verified before relying on it: gatsbyai.app MX is Cloudflare Email Routing, support@gatsbyai.app returned 250 in an SMTP RCPT probe while a random local part returned 550. Domain registered 2026-10-01 (Spaceship, Cloudflare NS); no checkout or purchase was exercised.

Marigold Pet

One price, one purchase: USD 6.99 one-time for a single 15-second Halloween pet costume video, portrait 9:16 or landscape 16:9, four preset looks, AI-generated synchronised audio included. No tiers, no credit packs, no free tier, no trial, no subscription and no auto-renewal. Applicable tax shown at checkout by Waffo Pancake, the named merchant of record. Verified on three surfaces that agree: the homepage ('$6.99 - one-time purchase', 'Pay $6.99 and make my video'), /pricing (USD 6.99, 'one-time purchase', 'Billing cycle: one-time ... No recurring charge and no auto-renewal') and the site's own public config endpoint /api/config, which returns price '6.99', currency 'USD', billing 'one-time', provider 'waffo', store 'Binglin Studio', mode 'prod', ready true. No price appears anywhere else on the site, and no subscription price exists to verify.

Official sources checked 2026-10-23

submitted via form by vendor; editorial entry written independently. Received through FormSubmit on 2026-10-23 15:05 UTC, not through /submit-tool.html but through the site's homepage endpoint, with the submitted URL carrying utm_source=aitoolsessentials&utm_medium=directory&utm_campaign=backlinks - i.e. the vendor is running a directory-backlink campaign and the payload is a link request, not a customer report. Product verified by fetching the live site: /, /pricing, /privacy, /terms and /acceptable-use all 200; sitemap lists 9 URLs including the Spanish mirror /video-halloween-mascotas. Checkout liveness read from the site's own public config endpoint rather than from copy: /api/config returns mode 'prod' and ready true, so this is a live sale, and the client's 'Test checkout is active' string is a dead branch that only renders when mode is not prod - it does not render here and was not treated as a contradiction. Analytics claim verified from the shipped script, not the policy text: consent defaults are denied for analytics_storage, ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization; GA4 G-V8SX7EYXX3 is appended only on an accepted choice; approved UTM parameters are whitelisted into page_location and order ids stripped; _ga cookies are cleared on reject; a 'Privacy choices' control reopens the banner. Domain RDAP: registered 2026-10-21T13:10:41Z via Cloudflare Registrar, NS adi/theo.ns.cloudflare.com, no MX records. Legal pages are dated 'Effective date: October 20, 2026 - Version 1.0', one day before that registration. Identity: the seller is the brand 'Binglin Studio' only, with no company, individual, country or postal address, and the Terms carry no governing-law clause; the only contact is w1952724273@gmail.com, which is published in the footer and in all three legal pages and is the working route because the domain has no MX. No separate refund page exists (/refunds and /refund-policy 404); refund terms are in /pricing and Terms section 5. Name checked for collisions: no other AI product trades as Marigold Pet (the nearest are an Animal Jam fan blog, a Portland pet-rescue site called Moss & Marigold, and a Claude skill for pet-boarding advice), and 'Binglin Studio' returns no AI-product footprint. No affiliate, partner or referral page exists (/affiliates, /affiliate, /partners, /referral and /api/referrals all 404), so no tracking URL was invented.

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