How do I compare a video editor's quote with an AI tool?

Per finished video, with VAT, counting the revision rounds included, the delivery time and your own time spent on briefs and fixes.

How much does ion cost?

Plans start at ₪78 a month paid yearly (₪97 paid monthly), VAT included, with 7 videos a month. A video comes to ₪10–₪14.

What video editing costs in Israel: an editor, a freelancer, or AI

This guide compares ways of working, not named products or named editors. It says what moves a price and how to compare offers; for any editor or tool, its own quote or price list is the source.

What changes the price

The length of the raw footage and of the finished video.
Captions, especially Hebrew captions that need proofreading.
Graphics and animation, music and sound effects.
How many revision rounds are included.
How fast you need it back.

How to compare quotes

Per finished video, not per hour or per month.
With VAT, or without it, the same way for every quote.
The revision rounds included, and what one more costs.
Delivery time, from upload to a file you can post.
What happens if the result isn't usable.

The costs that don't show on a quote

Your own time: briefing, waiting, watching drafts and writing fixes. And the waiting itself: a video that comes back in days is posted days later.

A worked example, with ion's prices

Prices in shekels, VAT included, from ion's price list. A video on a plan comes to ₪10–₪14.

Basic: ₪97 a month paid monthly, or ₪78 a month paid yearly, for 7 videos with footage up to 2 minutes each: ₪13.86 or ₪11.14 a video.
Professional: ₪299 a month paid monthly, or ₪239 a month paid yearly, for 23 videos with footage up to 5 minutes each: ₪13 or ₪10.39 a video.

Business: Priced by the videos you make.

Credit packs, with no subscription:

70 credits for ₪70: about 5 short videos, ₪14 each.
210 credits for ₪179: about 15 short videos, ₪11.93 each.
560 credits for ₪429: about 40 short videos, ₪10.73 each.
1400 credits for ₪1000: about 100 short videos, ₪10 each.

A video costs credits by the length of the footage you upload, since that's what the work grows with. On Professional, footage up to 5 minutes is one video.

Footage up to 2 min: 14 credits
Footage up to 5 min: 21 credits
Footage up to 10 min: 35 credits
Footage up to 20 min: 56 credits

Unlimited editing by hand: Cuts, captions, graphics, the look and versions, free.
Unlimited requests to ion: Ask for changes in your own words, as often as you like. A request ion designs from scratch shows its price first (7 credits).
5 exports: Then 7 credits for 5 more; unlimited on Professional.
A video that fails costs nothing: Its credits come back to you by themselves.

So if you make up to 7 short videos a month, Basic covers them; for up to 23, or footage up to 5 minutes, Professional; for a month that needs more, a pack.

Where ion fits, and where it doesn't

What ion does here

A 90-second video is usually ready in about 5 minutes, the full-quality file included; longer footage takes longer. You can close the page meanwhile, and we'll let you know when it's ready.
Unlimited editing by hand: Cuts, captions, graphics, the look and versions, free.
A video that fails before it's ready costs nothing: its credits come back by themselves.
Prices include VAT.

Where ion isn't the tool

ion works from the footage you upload: it doesn't film anything new or change what is in the picture. Any cutaways it adds come from public stock footage libraries.
ion has no free plan, and the Business plan is priced with each team.

Short answers

How do I compare a video editor's quote with an AI tool?: Per finished video, with VAT, counting the revision rounds included, the delivery time and your own time spent on briefs and fixes.
How much does ion cost?: Plans start at ₪78 a month paid yearly (₪97 paid monthly), VAT included, with 7 videos a month. A video comes to ₪10–₪14.

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Updated: 2026-11-01