Fix your eye contact without signing up for a subscription
Eye contact correction is a small feature with a big price tag attached — not because the correction is expensive, but because of what it's bundled with. Here's why, and what your options are if you don't want another monthly bill.
Why it's always a subscription
Eye contact correction didn't arrive as a product. It arrived as a feature inside editors that were already sold on monthly plans, and the pricing simply inherited that model. Subscriptions also make sense for the vendors: predictable revenue, and every additional AI feature increases the value of the same recurring fee.
The result is that the pricing reflects the suite's economics, not the cost of correcting your gaze.
What you're actually paying for
If you use one feature from a suite, most of your subscription is funding capability you never open — timelines, captions, avatars, dubbing, stock libraries, collaboration. That's not waste if you use them. It is if you don't.
A useful test: open your billing page and count the features you touched last month. If it's one, you're paying suite pricing for tool usage.
The expiring-credit problem
Even inside subscriptions, most AI features are metered by credits — and most credit pools reset monthly. Record nothing in February and those credits are gone. This is the detail people most often miss when comparing plans, because it's rarely on the pricing page.
Credits that roll over, or don't expire at all, are worth materially more than the headline number suggests.
Running the numbers on your own usage
Subscription value depends almost entirely on how evenly you use it. Two questions settle it:
- How many minutes of video did you actually correct in the last three months?
- How many of those months would you have paid the subscription and used none of it?
What pay-as-you-go looks like
GazeFix is built around the opposite model: buy credits in packs, 1 credit corrects 1 minute, and credits never expire. There's no monthly floor, so a quiet month costs nothing, and a busy one costs exactly what you used.
That's not universally better — if you correct hours of video every month without fail, a subscription is likely cheaper per minute. It's better for uneven usage, which describes most people who aren't full-time video producers. GazeFix is launching soon; join the waitlist for early access and free launch credits.