TBC mischief 1

★★★★☆3.9 / 5 editorial Paid Pay per second: from $0.005/sec at 480p and $0.01/sec at 720p (a 5-second clip costs $0.025 at 480p) — check the official marketplace listing for current pricing.

A neuron-research-inspired image-to-video model that turns a still image into a clip for pennies.

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What is TBC mischief 1?

TBC mischief 1, launched on October 30, 2026 by The Biological Computing Co., is an image-to-video model built on the open-weight Wan 2.2 model. Its unusual selling point is where its efficiency comes from: the company studies living neurons in the lab, measures how they process information, and turns those findings into software that makes the model faster and cheaper to run on ordinary hardware.

The model is available through fal and OpenRouter rather than as a standalone app, starting at $0.005 per second at 480p and $0.01 per second at 720p — so a five-second clip costs 2.5 cents at 480p. That price makes it practical to generate many variations while refining an idea, which is exactly the workflow the company pitches to creators and developers building video into products.

Key Features

Image-to-video generation built on the Wan 2.2 open-weight model
Company-reported 5x faster generation than its base model
Priced from $0.005 per second at 480p and $0.01 per second at 720p
Available on fal and OpenRouter for creators and developers
Efficiency software adds less than 0.1% to the base model's parameter count

Pros

Extremely cheap per clip, so testing many variations is affordable
A genuinely novel research story behind a real, working product
Marketplace access means developers can build it into apps right away

Cons

The 5x speed and matching-quality claims come from the company, with no independent benchmarks published at launch
It is a developer-facing model on fal and OpenRouter, not a polished consumer video app
Clips are short image-to-video generations (3 and 5 seconds in marketplace listings), so longer scenes need extra editing

Pricing

Model: Paid
Pay per second: from $0.005/sec at 480p and $0.01/sec at 720p (a 5-second clip costs $0.025 at 480p) — check the official marketplace listing for current pricing.

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