Chalkboard
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Chalkboard, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Chalkboard's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $25 a month | Every video, narrator, and effort level included · Library + API access · Roughly 35 to 80 normal-effort videos per month, depending on length and options · Email support · 2,500 credits, refreshed every billing cycle |
| Top-up pack | $50, paid once | Available to subscribers and free accounts · Coming soon · 6,000 credits (+20% bonus) |
The facts
Each one read from Chalkboard's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- The hosted API supports bearer authentication, idempotency, signed webhooks, and test-mode keys; hosted access requires a beta invite.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Automated pipeline
- The pipeline has separate stages for scripting, verification, animation, visual QA, and rendering, with retry logic when a stage fails.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Availability
- The hosted service is in closed beta, with invite codes required for access and a waitlist for people without an invite.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Customization
- Users can configure audience, tone, template, visual theme, narrator, and effort level.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data controls
- The pricing page says account holders can export their data, set a spend-alert threshold, manage email notifications, and delete their account and associated videos, jobs, and history.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Fact-checking
- A verifier annotates numerical claims, dates, and causal statements and rewrites claims that do not hold up.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The self-hosted project documents Claude, Manim, ElevenLabs, Kokoro, and OpenAI as pipeline or narration components.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security
- The homepage says the pipeline is sandboxed via Docker.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- The project is MIT licensed and can run locally through its open-source CLI using the user's own Claude key.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The pricing page lists email support, and the site provides [email protected] as a contact address.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Usage limits
- Videos consume credits based on compute; the pricing page estimates roughly 30 to 70 credits for a short video and 80 to 200 for a max-reliability run with a premium narrator.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Video assets
- Each video can include an SRT caption file, embedded chapter markers, a YouTube chapter list, and a source script.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Visual QA
- After rendering, Claude reviews sampled frames for overlapping text, off-canvas elements, unreadable contrast, and obscured labels.checked 5 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Chalkboard turns a topic into a narrated explainer video by scripting, fact-checking, generating Manim animation code, synthesizing narration, and rendering an MP4.checked 5 Oct 2026
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