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Pixel Samy Studio vs Tasty Edits: Paying Per Video, or Paying Per Month

Tasty Edits publish a clear price for every single video. We publish a monthly ceiling. The maths flips somewhere around fifteen pieces a month, and here is exactly where.

Everything below about Tasty Edits comes from their own public pages, read on 24 September 2026. Check it yourself

Tasty Edits are one of the few studios in this space who put real prices on the page, and I want to say that up front, because most agencies in our category hide behind a book-a-call button and it makes honest comparison almost impossible, so credit where it is due.

What they sell is per-video editing, and I read the numbers off their own pricing page on 24 September 2026, so a horizontal video runs from $327 down to $278 each depending on how many you buy, a vertical video runs from $94 down to $80 each, thumbnails are a $43 add-on, and the turnaround they publish is 48 hours on horizontal and 24 hours on vertical with unlimited revisions.

What we sell is a monthly ceiling, $2,000 for up to 200 short-form videos and 30 long-form videos with thumbnails included, produced by our in-house team in Dubai, and the reason these two models feel so different in practice is that one of them charges you more every time you decide to publish more, and the other one gets cheaper per piece the more you use it, right, which is the whole conversation on this page.

Pixel Samy Studio vs Tasty Edits, at a glance

Their column is what Tasty Edits publishes, ours is what we publish. Where they do not state something, the row says so instead of guessing.

 Pixel Samy StudioTasty Edits
Pricing modelMonthly, $2,000 for a published ceiling of finished assetsPer video, with volume discounts at 4, 8, 15 and 30 videos
Short-form video priceIncluded in the $2,000, up to 200 a month$94 for one, $88 each at 15 videos, $80 each at 30 videos
Long-form video priceIncluded in the $2,000, up to 30 a month$327 for one, $305 each at 4 videos, $278 each at 8 videos
ThumbnailsIncluded, packaged with the title by our sister studio ClickTheory$43 add-on per video
TurnaroundBuilt around your publishing calendar, with a 24 hour turnaround on our podcast line24 hours on vertical video, 48 hours on horizontal video
RevisionsAgreed per engagementUnlimited revisions, stated on the pricing page
Channel managementStrategy and distribution sit inside the engagementSeparate plans at $1,490 and $2,370 a month billed quarterly
What Tasty Edits is genuinely good at
  • They publish real prices, per video, which is rarer than it should be in this industry
  • Unlimited revisions are stated on the pricing page rather than buried in an onboarding doc
  • A dedicated editor and a video manager on every order, so there is a named human on it
  • 24 hour turnaround on vertical videos and 48 hours on horizontal, which is quick
  • Buying one video is genuinely possible, so you can test the work for a few hundred dollars
What we are built for
  • $2,000 a month covers up to 200 short-form videos and 30 long-form videos, with thumbnails included
  • Thumbnails are part of the work rather than a $43 add-on per video
  • Close to 50 editors in-house in Dubai, not a marketplace of contractors
  • Seven YouTube channels of our own, each past 100,000 subscribers, informing how things get packaged
  • Strategy and distribution are inside the engagement, so somebody is deciding what to make next

Where the maths actually flips

Let me do this properly with their published numbers rather than hand waving, because this is the one section that decides it for most people.

At their volume rate, thirty vertical videos cost $80 each, so $2,400. Eight horizontal videos cost $278 each, so $2,224. Thumbnails are $43 on top of each video if you want them, and most people do, which is another $1,290 on thirty videos. So a founder publishing thirty shorts and eight long-form videos a month with thumbnails is looking at roughly $5,900 with a per-video model.

Our entry point is $2,000 a month and the ceiling on it is 200 short-form videos and 30 long-form videos with thumbnails included, so the same output sits inside the entry plan with a lot of room left over.

Now flip it the other way, because that is the honest half. A founder publishing five shorts and one long-form video a month pays about $800 with them and $2,000 with us, and at that volume they are simply the cheaper answer and I would tell you so on a call.

The crossover sits somewhere around fifteen to twenty pieces a month depending on your mix, and the catch here is that most founders underestimate where they will be in six months, so it is worth doing the sum for the volume you are trying to reach rather than the volume you are stuck at today.

Rough monthly cost at different publishing volumes5 shorts, 1 long (per video): 800USD per month; 5 shorts, 1 long (our entry): 2,000USD per month; 30 shorts, 8 long (per video): 5,900USD per month; 30 shorts, 8 long (our entry): 2,000USD per monthRough monthly cost at different publishing volumes5 shorts, 1 long (per video)800USD per month5 shorts, 1 long (our entry)2,000USD per month30 shorts, 8 long (per video)5,900USD per month30 shorts, 8 long (our entry)2,000USD per month
Per-video figures use Tasty Edits published volume rates plus their $43 thumbnail add-on, read on 24 September 2026. Ours is the published $2,000 entry point. Your mix will move these numbers.

What per-video pricing does to your publishing decisions

There is a behavioural thing that happens with per-video pricing that nobody really talks about, and I have watched it happen with founders more than once.

When every extra video has a price tag attached to it, you start editing your own ambition. You skip the clip that was probably good but not certainly good, you do not test the second hook, you do not cut the same interview three different ways to see which framing lands, because each of those experiments costs another eighty or three hundred dollars, and so you quietly become more conservative exactly where you should be experimenting.

With a ceiling, the incentive flips. Cutting the same long-form piece four different ways costs you nothing extra, so you do it, and then you find out which version actually performs, which is the only way anybody learns what their audience responds to.

I am not claiming this makes us better, to be very honest it makes us better for a specific kind of operator, the one who wants to be publishing constantly and learning from volume. If your content plan is six carefully considered videos a quarter, the ceiling is wasted on you and the per-video model will suit you far better, and that is a perfectly sensible way to run a brand.

Thumbnails, and why we stopped charging separately for them

Tasty Edits price thumbnails at $43 as an add-on, which is a completely normal way to do it in this industry, and I understand why, because a good thumbnail is a real piece of design work and it takes a designer time.

The reason we fold it in is different. We run seven YouTube channels of our own, every one of them past a hundred thousand subscribers, and the single most reliable lesson from those channels is that the thumbnail and the title are not decoration on top of the video, they are the thing that decides whether the video gets watched at all, right, so treating them as an optional extra always felt backwards to us.

So on our side the packaging comes as part of the work, and it is handled by our sister studio ClickTheory, which does nothing but thumbnails and titles all day for other people's channels too.

The practical difference shows up at volume. On thirty videos a month, a $43 add-on is $1,290, which is most of another retainer, and the temptation is to skip it on the videos you are less sure about, which are usually the ones that needed the help most.

Who is actually doing the editing

Tasty Edits say you work with a personal video editor and a video manager on every order, which is a good structure, and having a named manager between you and the edit is genuinely useful when you are sending a lot of notes.

On our side the whole team sits in-house in Dubai, close to fifty people, on our payroll, in one building with the producers. That matters most on the weeks that go wrong, right, when a launch moves forward by four days or a guest recording lands late on a Thursday and everything needs recutting for Monday, because at that point the question is whether somebody can walk over and move the queue, or whether your job is sitting in a contractor's inbox behind somebody else's job.

There is a fair counterpoint, and I will make it for them. A distributed model with per-video pricing means you are never paying for idle capacity, and if your needs are unpredictable that flexibility is worth real money.

At the end of the day the honest framing is that we are carrying a fixed team so that volume and turnaround stay predictable, and you are paying for that predictability, which is only worth it if you actually need it.

What happens when a launch moves up by four daysStep 1, Per-video model: New videos are new orders, priced and queued individually, so the cost of reacting is visible and immediate.. Step 2, Retainer with a ceiling: The extra cuts come out of capacity you already bought, so reacting costs you nothing extra.. Step 3, Who reprioritises: In-house means a producer moves the queue in the room. Distributed means waiting on availability.. Step 4, What usually breaks: Not quality. It is the publishing date, and that is the thing you cannot get back.. Step 5, The honest caveat: If your calendar rarely moves, none of this is worth paying a retainer for.What happens when a launch moves up by four days1Per-video modelNew videos are new orders,priced and queuedindividually, so the costof reacting is visible andimmediate.2Retainer with aceilingThe extra cuts come out ofcapacity you alreadybought, so reacting costsyou nothing extra.3Who reprioritisesIn-house means a producermoves the queue in theroom. Distributed meanswaiting on availability.4What usuallybreaksNot quality. It is thepublishing date, and thatis the thing you cannot getback.5The honest caveatIf your calendar rarelymoves, none of this isworth paying a retainerfor.
The models differ most on the bad weeks, not the good ones.

How to decide without overthinking it

Take last month, count what you actually published, and split it into short-form and long-form. Price that basket with their published rates, add $43 per thumbnail, and put it next to our $2,000. Whichever number is smaller is your answer for today.

Then do it again for the volume you want to be at in six months, because the whole point of hiring anybody is to get to that number, and a model that punishes you for publishing more is a strange thing to sign up for if growth is the plan.

After that there are three questions worth asking both of us. Who decides what gets made next, because if the answer is you then you are buying editing rather than content. Who writes the thumbnail and the title, because that is where most of the performance comes from. And what happens on a week when everything moves, because that is when you find out what you actually bought.

If you want, send me what you published last month and I will do the arithmetic honestly, including the version where they come out cheaper, since a client who signs up for the wrong model leaves in four months anyway and nobody wins there.

Which one should you actually pick

The useful version of this page, because a comparison where the other studio never wins is a comparison nobody believes.

Go with Tasty Edits when

Go with Tasty Edits when your volume is low or spiky and you want to pay only for what you actually publish, because if you put out six shorts and one long-form video in a month, you will spend somewhere around six hundred dollars with them and roughly two thousand with us, and I am not going to pretend that is a close call.

They are also the better answer when you want to test an editing partner with a single video before committing to anything, or when unlimited revisions matter to you more than volume, for instance if you are making a small number of high-stakes brand videos where the tenth pass is the one that matters.

Go with us when

Come to us when the volume is the point. Thirty vertical videos at their best rate is $2,400, and thirty short-form videos is a light month for the kind of founder we work with, so once you are publishing daily the per-video model starts charging you for exactly the thing you are trying to do more of.

It also makes sense when you want the thinking included rather than just the cutting, because somebody still has to decide what gets filmed, what each clip is for, which platform it belongs on, and what the thumbnail and the title should say, and with per-video pricing that job stays with you, whereas with us it is the content flywheel we are running on your behalf.

Questions people ask before they switch

Is Tasty Edits cheaper than Pixel Samy Studio?
Below roughly fifteen pieces a month, usually yes. Their published rates go down to $80 for a vertical video and $278 for a horizontal one at volume, so a light month costs a few hundred dollars. Above that, the per-video model overtakes our $2,000 entry point quickly, because our price covers up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form videos with thumbnails included.
Do you charge extra for thumbnails?
No, thumbnails are included in the $2,000 and are packaged together with the title, because on our own seven YouTube channels the packaging is what decides whether the video gets watched. Tasty Edits price thumbnails as a $43 add-on per video.
Do you offer unlimited revisions like they do?
We agree the revision arrangement per engagement rather than publishing an unlimited promise, and I would rather be straight about that. Unlimited revisions is a real strength of theirs, and if it is the thing you care most about, that is a fair reason to pick them.
Can I buy a single video from you to test the work?
Not really, our model starts at a monthly engagement, so if you want to test with one video then Tasty Edits are genuinely the easier option. What we can do instead is a paid pilot month, where you see the full pipeline rather than a single edit.
Who manages my YouTube channel?
With us, strategy and distribution sit inside the engagement rather than being a separate product. Tasty Edits publish YouTube channel management separately at $1,490 and $2,370 a month billed quarterly.

Send me last month's publishing count and I will put both prices next to each other honestly, including the case where paying per video wins, because that happens more often than agencies like to admit. So yeah. That's my way of saying it.