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Genjutsu Ai vs Marigold Pet
Creators making trend-shaped short video who already have a performance worth copying and photos of the people, pets or products to put in it - the preset library does the prompt work and the workspace shows a credit estimate before you generate. Good fit for a two-person duet, a pet dance, a car or product swap, or a group scene where each photo has a labelled role. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named company, a stated jurisdiction and a retention period before paying, for work where an exact likeness or an unchanged background is contractual, for text-to-video alone (the AI Video Maker page covers that at a much higher credit cost), or for anyone unwilling to upload photos of real people to an unidentified operator. · 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 point | Genjutsu AI | Marigold Pet |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Creators making trend-shaped short video who already have a performance worth copying and photos of the people, pets or products to put in it - the preset library does the prompt work and the workspace shows a credit estimate before you generate. Good fit for a two-person duet, a pet dance, a car or product swap, or a group scene where each photo has a labelled role. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named company, a stated jurisdiction and a retention period before paying, for work where an exact likeness or an unchanged background is contractual, for text-to-video alone (the AI Video Maker page covers that at a much higher credit cost), or for anyone unwilling to upload photos of real people to an unidentified operator. | 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. |
| Category | Video | Video |
| Price | Free tier: 18 one-time signup credits, watermarked previews and downloads, roughly 3 images or 1 short clip, plus a weekly check-in worth up to 60 credits across the reward cycle. Subscriptions billed monthly: Starter $29.9 for 800 credits/month, Pro $49.9 for 1,800, Business $99.9 for 4,000. Billed yearly (the price printed on the card): Starter $100.0 a year, shown as $8.3/month, 2,400 credits/year; Pro $360.0 a year, shown as $30.0/month against a struck-through $49.9, 21,600 credits/year; Business $599.0 a year, shown as $49.9/month against a struck-through $99.9, 48,000 credits/year. One-time packs under the Pay once tab, credits never expire: Flex $99 for 2,000 credits, Starter Pack $199.9 for 4,900, Pro Pack $499.9 for 19,900. Subscription credits expire each period; card prices are USD before tax. Refund requests within 72 hours, calculated pro rata on unused purchased credits minus actual non-returned processing fees capped at 6% of the order. Read on 2026-10-26 from the rendered /pricing page on all three tabs; the plan figures are not literals in the served HTML, so they were captured from the rendered page rather than a price-token sweep. | Single 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 score | 3.9/5 | 4.0/5 |
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Three tabs on one /pricing page, all read rendered on 2026-10-26 because the plan figures are not literals in the served HTML. Monthly billing: Starter $29.9 for 800 credits/month, Pro $49.9 for 1,800, Business $99.9 for 4,000. Yearly billing: Starter $100.0/year shown as $8.3/month for 2,400 credits/year, Pro $360.0/year shown as $30.0/month against a struck-through $49.9 for 21,600 credits/year, Business $599.0/year shown as $49.9/month against a struck-through $99.9 for 48,000 credits/year. Pay once: Flex Pack $99 for 2,000 credits, Starter Pack $199.9 for 4,900, Pro Pack $499.9 for 19,900; one-time credits never expire while subscription credits expire each period. Free Basic tier: 18 one-time signup credits, watermarked previews and downloads, roughly 3 images or 1 short clip, plus a weekly check-in worth up to 60 credits across the reward cycle. Banners read "Save up to 50%" with per-plan badges of 40% OFF (Save $238.8) on Pro and 50% OFF (Save $599.8) on Business; those two reconcile against the struck-through monthly prices, but the annual Starter plan has no anchor and costs more per credit than the monthly Starter. Refunds: 72-hour request window, pro rata on unused purchased credits, actual non-returned processing fees capped at 6%. Two internal arithmetic checks recorded rather than resolved: the cards' "up to N videos" works out at about 18 credits per clip, while the AI Video Maker's default Seedance 2.5 setting (720p, 5s) estimated 119 credits on the same day; and the annual Starter's 2,400 credits are 200 a month against 800 on the monthly plan. Card prices are USD before tax. No public config or products endpoint exists to cross-check (/api/config/public and /api/payment/products both 404), and checkout was not reached - no account, signup or purchase was attempted.
Official sources checked 2026-10-26Submitted via form by the vendor on 2026-10-27 00:19 UTC (FormSubmit, contact field harris00525@gmail.com, category "Video", pricing_url https://aigenjutsu.app/pricing, docs_url blank); editorial entry written independently and no part of the submission copy was reused. New lead - no prior genjutsu hit in the repository, the held-submissions ledger or any mail folder. Domain aigenjutsu.app registered 2026-10-08T07:46:49Z at Spaceship, Cloudflare NS paige/derek (a pair that appears in no other row of this ledger). Product is live and functional, not a pre-launch draft: /video renders a working studio with a model selector (Seedance 2.5 default) and a 119-credit estimate for 720p/5s, the homepage motion studio loads presets with labelled photo roles, and /pricing sells three subscription tiers and three one-time packs. Legal set is complete on short paths - /privacy (2026-10-09), /terms (2026-09-28), /refund (2026-10-10), /acceptable-use and /cookie all 200; /privacy-policy, /terms-of-service, /refund-policy, /legal, /about, /contact, /faq, /affiliates, /partners and /referral all 404, and /llms.txt 308-redirects to /sites/aigenjutsu/llms.txt, which is the live copy. Contact route probed against the domain's own Cloudflare Email Routing MX before any mail: support@aigenjutsu.app returned 250 2.1.0 Ok while a random local part returned 550 5.1.1 Address does not exist, so the published mailbox is real and the domain is not a catch-all. Name family - crowded, asked rather than asserted: Genjutsu is Higgsfield's video-to-video model, released 2026-08-31, and seven other domains carry the name (genjutsu.app 2026-10-02, genjutsuai.app and genjutsuai.net 2026-09-30, genjutsu-ai.com and genjutsu-ai.org 2026-10-04, genjutsuai.art 2026-10-05, genjutsu-trends.com 2026-10-11), each on a different Cloudflare NS pair and each serving its own build rather than this platform's data-site template - so no single operator farms the name and no rights demand is warranted. This site discloses non-affiliation in the footer of every page, in llms.txt, on /pricing and on a dedicated /higgsfield-genjutsu page headed "Higgsfield Genjutsu Alternative" that states it does not claim the same engine; the models it actually runs are Kling 2.6/3.0 Motion Control, Wan 2.2 Animate Move/Replace and Seedance 2.0/2.5, all independently confirmed as shipped (Seedance 2.5 launched 2026-07-31; Kling 3.0 Motion Control in February 2026). Published as 3.9 with the identity, retention, training and processor gaps in cons; no affiliate program exists to wire. Terms date 2026-09-28 predates the domain's 2026-10-08 registration - asked, not asserted as stale.
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 2026-10-23submitted 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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