fal turns your animation into code, for the price of almost two videos

In short

• Motion to Code outputs an animated web page (GSAP) or a looping GLSL shader, from text, an image or a video.
• $0.30 per second when MiniMax H3 Max first makes a clip, $0.20 from your own video; 5 s minimum, 15 s maximum.
• "A few KB instead of MBs", says fal. Its own example: a 5.7 KB page versus a 617 KB MP4.

What came out

Two versions, same price, same inputs:

• GSAP: an HTML page, SVG drawings animated by a single GSAP timeline.
• GLSL: a Shadertoy-style shader, single pass, no textures, that loops seamlessly.

You give text (4,000 characters max), plus an optional 1 to 15 s video or an image; duration from 1 to 15 s, 6 by default.

Without a video, MiniMax H3 Max first animates your text or image, then that clip is rewritten as code. You get the code, the page, an MP4 preview and the MiniMax clip. fal warns: "Flat motion design works best". Flat motion design, then. Not your action movie.

The bill

A 6 s loop from text: $1.80, fal's example. As video: $0.94 with Kling 4.0 720p; $0.62 with H3 Max 1080p on promo, $0.96 after 10/31.

10 s: $3 from text, $2 from your video. Against:

• Kling 4.0 720p: $1.57. Almost double.
• H3 Max 1080p after the promo: $1.60. Almost double.
• H3 Max 1080p on promo: $1.04. Almost triple.
• Kling 4.0 1080p: $2.35. Only a $0.65 gap.

If you make 10: $30 versus $15.70 with Kling 4.0 720p, a $14.30 gap.

The minimum trap: at least 5 s billed, whatever the input. A 3 s loop costs $1.50 from text (not $0.90), $1 from your video (not $0.60).

The logic: from text, you pay for the MiniMax clip plus its rewrite. Code isn't a cheaper video, it's an editable version of one.

fal's examples, up close

fal publishes one example per version. I weighed them:

• GSAP: a 5,662-byte page, versus a 617,426-byte MP4 preview at 1280 × 720. About 109 times less. If you store 1,000: 5.7 MB versus 617 MB.
• GLSL: an 8,946-byte page, versus a 925,544-byte MP4 at 640 × 360. About 103 times less.
• Time: 3 min 07 (GSAP), 4 min 56 (GLSL), two passes each.

When the sources contradict each other

• "Self-contained": the page promises a standalone page. The GSAP example page loads GSAP and a font from the internet, outside the 5.7 KB. The GLSL page is self-sufficient.
• "MBs of video": Motion to Code's MP4 previews weigh 0.62 and 0.93 MB; the example videos on the Kling 4.0 and H3 Max pages, 3.5 and 6.5 MB (duration not given). The MBs exist, just not in its own previews.

What independent measurements say

Artificial Analysis: nothing readable on Motion to Code as of 10/29/2026 at 08:39 UTC (JavaScript page). I can't tell you whether they measured it.

What we don't know yet

• The output: not tested, and I didn't watch fal's videos, only their numbers. Don't make me angry with an "it works": show me.
• The resolution of the MiniMax clip made internally: not stated.
• Failures: if H3 Max fails to make the clip, you pay $0.20 per second instead of $0.30. What the code is then built on, and whether a complete failure is billed: not stated.
• Beyond flat motion design: fal promises nothing.

Key terms

• GSAP: a JavaScript library that animates elements of a web page; here, SVG drawings on a single timeline.
• GLSL shader: a small program that computes the color of each pixel on the graphics card; GLSL is its language, Shadertoy the site where people share this kind of shader.
• SVG: vector drawing, described by shapes rather than pixels.

About the source

• Who: fal, which offers the service and publishes the prices; the reference clip comes from MiniMax H3 Max.
• Date: fal post of 10/29/2026 at 00:21 UTC; fal's catalog dates both pages to the evening of 10/27/2026. Commercial use indicated.
• Links: Motion to Code GSAP · Motion to Code GLSL · fal announcement

Source passages

Pages read on 10/29/2026 between 08:38 and 08:44 UTC.

Show the 13 sources

Ref.	Quote (original language)	URL
S1↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5↑6+13	"Writes a motion design animation as one self-contained HTML page (inline SVG animated by a single GSAP 3 timeline)"; "Without a video, MiniMax H3 Max first animates the prompt (text-to-video) or the image (image-to-video) into a reference clip, and that clip is rebuilt as code."; "Inputs: prompt (up to 4,000 characters), plus optionally video_url (a reference clip of 1 to 15 s, which sets the duration and the aspect ratio) or image_url"; "a video and an image together are refused"; "duration 1-15 s (default 6, ignored with a video)"; "refine_rounds 0 or 1 (default 1: the render is compared with the reference and the code fixed once)"; "Billed per second of animation, 5 s minimum, 15 s maximum: $0.30 per second when H3 Max makes the reference clip, $0.20 per second from your own video (or when H3 Max can't make the clip)."; "Your request will cost $0.30 per second of animation when MiniMax H3 Max animates your prompt or image first, or $0.20 per second from your own video, with a 5-second minimum: a 6-second loop from a prompt costs $1.80, a 10-second clip rebuilt from your video $2.00."; "Soundtrack for the loop, up to 15 MB."; "Flat motion design works best."	https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/motion-to-code/gsap
S2↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5	"Writes one Shadertoy-style fragment shader (mainImage, GLSL ES 3.00, single pass, no textures) that loops seamlessly over the duration, renders it with WebGL2 and checks it against the reference."; "Turn a prompt, an image or a reference video into a seamlessly looping GLSL shader, with a page that plays it live."; same price list as S1	https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/motion-to-code/glsl
S3↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5↑6+2	(GSAP example published by fal) "file_size": 617426, "width": 1280, "height": 720, "fps": 24, "duration": 6; "rounds": 2; "timings": { "source": 12.72, "study": 16.52, "generate": 48.02, "render": 16.7, "refine": 87.99, "encode": 4.88 }; <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/3.12.5/gsap.min.js">; "Commercial use"	https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/motion-to-code/gsap
S4↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5↑6	(GLSL example published by fal) "file_size": 925544, "width": 640, "height": 360, "fps": 12, "duration": 6; "rounds": 2; "timings": { "source": 15.55, "study": 24.13, "generate": 54.52, "render": 96.35, "refine": 85.64, "encode": 19.43 }	https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/motion-to-code/glsl
S5↑1↑2↑3↑4	(fal post, 2026-10-29T00:21:34Z) "Motion to Code is now on fal. Describe an animation, or drop in an image or a video, and get back editable code: a GSAP page or a looping GLSL shader. A few KB instead of MBs of video. Sharp at any resolution."	https://x.com/fal/status/2115599892471021865
S6↑1↑2↑3↑4	"Video costs $0.0325 per second at 480p, $0.052 per second at 768p, and $0.104 per second at 1080p."; "The discount ends October 31, after which 480p is $0.05/second, 768p is $0.08/second, and 1080p is $0.16/second."; (example video on the page) "file_size":6463396	https://fal.ai/models/minimax/h3-max/text-to-video
S7↑1↑2↑3↑4	"Video costs $0.157 per second at 720p and $0.235 per second at 1080p."; "Video duration in seconds (3-30)."; (example video on the page) "file_size":3478246	https://fal.ai/models/kling/v4/text-to-video
R1↑	fal public catalog: "date": "2026-10-27T21:36:17.556Z" (gsap), "2026-10-27T21:33:09.233Z" (glsl); "licenseType": "commercial"	https://fal.ai/api/models
R2↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5	Our Motion to Code math: 6 × 0.30 = $1.80; 10 × 0.30 = $3; 10 × 0.20 = $2; ×10 = $30 and $20; 3 s billed as 5 s: 5 × 0.30 = $1.50 instead of $0.90, 5 × 0.20 = $1 instead of $0.60; 10-loop gap: 30 − 15.70 = $14.30	— (our math)
R3↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5↑6+2	Our video math: Kling 4.0 720p 6 × 0.157 = $0.942, 10 × 0.157 = $1.57, ×10 = $15.70; 1080p 10 s = $2.35, ×10 = $23.50; H3 Max 1080p 6 × 0.104 = $0.624, 6 × 0.16 = $0.96, 10 s = $1.04 / $1.60, ×10 = $10.40 / $16; 3 − 2.35 = $0.65; ratios 3/1.57 = 1.91; 3/1.60 = 1.88; 3/1.04 = 2.88; 3/2.35 = 1.28	— (our math)
R4↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5↑6+2	Sizes of fal's examples, raw text decoded from the page (whitespace kept): GSAP page 5,662 bytes (+ GSAP and font loaded separately); GLSL page 8,946 bytes, no external resource; ratios ≈ 109 and ≈ 103; ×1,000: 5.7 MB versus 617 MB; time 186.83 s and 295.62 s; 1 KB = 1,000 bytes	— (our math)
R5↑	Artificial Analysis video leaderboard, retrieved on 10/29/2026 08:39 UTC: JavaScript page, no readable figures, no mention of Motion to Code	https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-video/leaderboard
R6	Diagram and chart: Python/PIL script (English version graphiques-en.py), no generative AI, no reused image	—