# The Clip That Cost $18

> OpenAI spent more money per day running Sora than most startups raise in a seed round.

- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-09-sora-eighteen-dollar-clip
- Blog: Synthetic Media
- Date: 2026-04-08
- Updated: 2026-04-08
- Tags: video-generation, sora, openai, ai-economics, compute-costs

## Outline

- #The arithmetic that killed a product
- #The Disney detail
- #Why the IPO pulled the trigger
- #What a dime buys you elsewhere
- #Where the users scattered
- #Every tool on this list is subsidized