Lunchwell is the 1800-credit ceiling across 18 scenes

Lunchwell Hospital Visit is the 17-recipe credit ceiling: 1800 preview / 3600 full, 18 scenes, VEO 3.1 Fast I2V. Lumee is longer in scene count and cheaper. It is a cloned scene graph, not a one-tap start_template_run file.

The workflows catalog is seventeen public recipes. Scene count is not the bill. The saved image-to-video row is. Lunchwell — Hospital Visit Story sits at the top of that list because every scene is priced on VEO 3.1 Fast I2V, not because eighteen is a magic width.

The ceiling is 1,800 preview / 3,600 full

Open the recipe block. Two figures: 1,800 at preview, 3,600 at full. Eighteen scenes. 9:16. Video model VEO 3.1 Fast I2V. Catalog copy: a Pixar-style wife packs her hospitalized husband’s sage-green lunchbox, then the drive and the quiet reveal. Assets: wife, husband, brand.

1,800 ÷ 18 is 100 listed credits a scene at preview. Read a workflow's credit estimate before you run it: divide by scenes, then look at the model line.

The expensive end of the same seventeen, ranked by published preview:

1. Lunchwell — Hospital Visit Story — 18 scenes, 1,800 / 3,600, VEO 3.1 Fast I2V.
2. Primo Protein vs Other Brand — 11 scenes, 1,100 / 2,200, VEO 3.1 Fast I2V.
3. LUMÉE GLOW — Rich Cat Glow-Up Story — 28 scenes, 1,092 / 2,156, Vidu Q3 Image to Video.
4. NEURA — Coffee vs Brain — 18 scenes, 702 / 1,386, Vidu Q3 Image to Video.
5. The Secret of the Golden Grain — 6 scenes, 600 / 1,200, VEO 3.1 Fast I2V.

Lunchwell and NEURA share a scene count; Lunchwell costs more than twice NEURA at preview because the I2V row differs. Viral Panel & Reaction Reel is four scenes at 60 / 120 — the floor of the same shelf. The published total covers scene pairs (still, then I2V) and the stitch, not captions, a dub, an upscale, or rerolls. Clone is free. Credits apply when you run it.

Eighteen named scenes, not a vibe

The scene list is the product. In order: The Empty Box, The POV, The Bread, The Spread, The Build, The Cut, The Fruit Chop, The Sandwich Placement, The Lid Close, The Note on Closed Box, The Final Zoom-In, The Pack-up, The Walk-out, The Arrival, The Open, The Reveal, Still Fresh — Product Hook, The CTA — Brand Hero Finale.

Each row already has an image prompt, a video prompt, a voiceover line, and the reference keys that have to hold. The lunchbox must look like the product still. The wife and husband are attached characters, not “a young couple in a kitchen.” You do not get that from “make a Pixar hospital lunch ad.”

The look is 3D Pixar-style, not photoreal: a photoreal hospital visit with generated patients is a likeness problem. Swap the box. Keep the cartoon. The graph names VEO 3.1 Fast I2V as the saved renderer. Veo 3.1 in the live catalog is the Veo family (native audio, 4 / 6 / 8s, 4K, 40 credits on that slug). The workflow does not become cheaper if you wish it were Vidu.

Lumee is 28 scenes and still cheaper

LUMÉE GLOW — Rich Cat Glow-Up Story is the scene-count outlier: twenty-eight 9:16 shots, four character assets, Vidu Q3 Image to Video, listed 1,092 at preview and 2,156 at full. 1,092 ÷ 28 is 39 listed credits a scene. Rocky’s 7-day wash is longer than Lunchwell’s hospital visit and cheaper because Vidu Q3 I2V is a different unit from VEO 3.1 Fast I2V.

If you picked Lumee “because 28 shots must be the expensive one,” you misread the catalog. The ceiling is Lunchwell. The long cheap recipe is Lumee. A 1,800-credit preview is a budget fact, not a reason to restage the film as six Omni cuts. Pay the estimate or pick a different recipe.

Recreate clones the graph. start_template_run is a different file.

Recreate a viral template is the agent verb: browse the public catalog, clone scenes, style, and model into your account (recreate_public_template). Cloning is free. The run is priced like the generation it is, shown before dispatch, and not auto-started. Swap the lunchbox still. Swap the two character refs if you have a grant and a new cast. Keep the cuts. Saved, not auto-run.

That object is a scene graph. It is not run a one-tap AI video template. start_template_run is the finger-snap / mugshot class: required inputs as hosted URLs, usually one photo, a finished clip out, no cloned eighteen-scene list. Feeding Lunchwell’s lunchbox still into a one-tap and hoping for a hospital visit is how you pay a template estimate for a joke format you will not post.

A screenshot of the preview cannot clone. Briefing “like Lunchwell” in an empty box is eighteen identity retries. Recreate materialises the graph. Then you edit. Then you dispatch.

FAQ

Is Recreate the same as downloading the Lunchwell MP4?

No. The MP4 is their pixels. Recreate is the scene graph — prompts, references, model — as a saved workflow. You need the graph if you want the next SKU in the same cuts.

Does cloning Lunchwell spend the 1,800 credits?

No. Clone is free. Credits apply when you run it, at the 1,800 / 3,600 figures shown before dispatch. Swap the lunchbox while it is still a draft.

Why is Lumee cheaper if it has more scenes?

The estimate follows the video model, not a tax per scene. Lumee is 28 scenes on Vidu Q3 I2V at 1,092 / 2,156. Lunchwell is 18 scenes on VEO 3.1 Fast I2V at 1,800 / 3,600. Scene count is width. The I2V row is the bill.

Can I run Lunchwell as a one-tap with start_template_run?

No. start_template_run consumes a one-tap template’s inputs and returns that template’s finished clip. Lunchwell is a public workflow you clone with Recreate, then run as a scene graph. Different catalog, different tool, different cost shape.