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Faceless channels

Run a faceless YouTube channel without paying per video.

Faceless channels don’t die from bad ideas; they die in month four, when a credit meter turns every upload into a purchase decision. Our unlimited lane costs 0 credits per clip — the only limit is a daily clip allowance we publish.

0 credits / clip20 clips / day9:1616:9no watermark
Open the StudioHow the unlimited lane works
Long-form
Shorts
01The real constraint

A meter is a cadence tax.

A faceless channel is a volume business. You publish, you read the numbers, you publish again — and the tool that charges per video quietly makes every one of those loops a small negotiation with yourself. That is where the cadence goes: not to burnout, to arithmetic.

On the unlimited lane there is no arithmetic. The clip costs nothing, the scene image costs nothing, and a render that fails costs nothing because nothing was charged. What exists instead is a daily allowance — 20 clips a day on Creator, 40 on Pro, 60 on Studio, resetting at midnight UTC. A video needing more clips than the day has left starts now with what fits and finishes automatically after the midnight-UTC reset — over up to 5 days for a very long one. You never re-submit it, and it never costs credits.

It is a real limit and that is the honest word for it. It is just a limit measured in machine time rather than in your budget. Why a generation costs zero credits goes through the mechanism.

02One pass

Script in. Upload-ready file out.

Five stages, no handoffs, no second tool. You touch the first one and the last.

  1. 01

    Script

    Paste your own, or have the writer draft it in any of 15 languages. The script is the only thing the pipeline needs — everything downstream is derived from its beats.

  2. 02

    Voice

    51 voices in the main picker plus 34 more in the full library (85 in all), across 16 languages. 12 emotional styles on the 18 expressive voices, and pitch and pace from −50% to +50% on every Azure voice.

  3. 03

    Scenes

    One AI image per beat, in a style you choose — the default is a photoreal cinematic still. Upload a character once and every scene references the same canonical sheet.

  4. 04

    Motion

    A cinematography pass plans one coherent camera arc across the whole video, then each still becomes a clip cut to the length of the line it sits under.

  5. 05MP4

    Mix

    A music bed ducked under the narration, then a single MP4: H.264, AAC, 24fps, web-optimised, no watermark on any plan.

03Both halves of a channel

Shorts find people. Long-form keeps them.

Both are first-class here, with real bounds rather than a vague “any length”.

Shorts — Discovery

9:16
Delivered
1080×1920
Runtime
up to 3:00
Scenes
1 – 34
Queue
dispatched first

Posts natively to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels from one generation. Shorts jump ahead of long videos in our queue, so a daily short never sits behind somebody's ten-minute render.

Long-form — Watch time

16:9
Delivered
1920×1080
Runtime
about 7:00
Scenes
1 – 70
Queue
patient by design

On the unlimited lane a clip caps at 6 seconds, so 70 scenes is about 7 minutes — and full videos run on that lane, so about 7 minutes is the long-form ceiling today.

Open the StudioSee the plans

Deeper on each: the 9:16 shorts generator and holding one character across a series.

04Questions

Before you commit a channel to it.

How does a faceless channel work without paying per video?
Two of our video engines are billed to us per clip and metered to you at nothing, so a generation on those two costs zero credits — the motion clips and the AI scene images together. That lane is included from Creator at $29 a month. What bounds you instead of a bill is a daily clip allowance: 20 clips a day on Creator, 40 on Pro, 60 on Studio, resetting at midnight UTC. A video needing more clips than the day has left starts now with what fits and finishes automatically after the midnight-UTC reset — over up to 5 days for a very long one. You never re-submit it, and it never costs credits.
Is 20 clips a day enough for a channel?
For a daily short, comfortably — a 9:16 short is typically a dozen or so scenes, and each scene is one clip. Long-form is where you feel it: a widescreen video needs one clip per scene, so a long one simply takes more than one day — it renders what fits today and finishes automatically after the reset. A bigger plan (40 a day on Pro, 60 on Studio) gets it done sooner.
Which niche should I pick?
The honest answer is that the niche you can sustain beats the niche with the best headline numbers, because you are competing on cadence and cadence is whatever you can still do in month six. That is an opinion, not a measurement, and we do not publish RPM figures we cannot source. Vidsly itself is niche-agnostic: explainers, history, finance, documentary, tech, health, listicles and story channels all run the same pipeline.
Is there anything Vidsly will refuse to make?
Yes. Scripts and images run through a moderation pass before anything is generated, and it refuses sexual content, hate speech, threats against real people, instructions for violent wrongdoing and graphic gore. Reporting on a difficult subject is fine; depicting it explicitly is not. Refusals happen before you are charged.
Do the videos come with captions burned in?
Not on the AI pipeline — there is no subtitle step in that renderer and no .srt file is delivered, so plan on adding captions in your uploader or your editor. Burned-in captions exist only on the manual route, where you supply your own images and audio. We would rather say this here than let you find it at upload time.
How do I keep the same character across a whole series?
Upload a reference image or describe them once, and Vidsly derives a single canonical character sheet for the job. Every scene image references that one sheet rather than the previous frame, so scene 12 is the same person as scene 1 and the drift you get from chaining references never starts.
How long does a video take to render?
The unlimited lane is a relaxed queue, dispatched behind the paid engines, and a full video is one render per scene — so plan renders the night before rather than an hour before. We email you when the file is ready rather than quote you a per-clip figure we cannot stand behind. The paid engines are the fast path when you need something now.
Can I publish in more than one language?
Yes, and it is the cheapest way to multiply output. The Studio's script writer drafts in 15 languages and narration covers 16, so the same script can be re-generated for another audience without new writing. Two caveats we would rather state: Hebrew and Thai text is refused with an explicit message rather than mis-narrated, and Russian works only if you pick a Russian voice — we never switch a script's language automatically. The 13 OpenAI voices are the exception: they are multilingual, so they are never re-routed or refused — they read the script in the voice you picked.
What does it cost to start?
Signing up is free and needs no card, but be clear about what free is: 150 credits, then a non-stacking top-up to 10 a day for 30 days. That covers writing a script and hearing the voices, not a full AI video scene, which starts at 420 credits. The unmetered lane starts on Creator at $29 a month; Pro at $49 adds 720p and a bigger daily allowance.
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Zero credits per clip, 20 clips a day on Creator — and the allowance resets every midnight UTC.

Open the StudioSee the plans