Google Launches Omni Flash in Flow, Charging 15 to 40 Credits per Video

8 articles · Updated · The Verge · May 23

Omni Flash is now live in Google’s Flow video platform, adding image-, video- and text-based prompting plus edit requests that the reviewer found more responsive than Veo.
Tests showed better character consistency and stronger prompt adherence than Veo, but clips still produced obvious glitches—objects changed form, scenes collapsed visually and edits sometimes introduced new errors like antlers.
$20 a month buys 1,000 credits, with generations costing 15 to 40 credits and each edit 40; after about 20 clips and several edits, only 145 credits remained.
Selfie-based deepfakes were the most striking result: despite small artifacts, clips of the reviewer eating pasta or posing at the Eiffel Tower looked convincing enough to potentially fool social-media viewers.
The release suggests Google is making realistic synthetic video easier to produce, even as the tool still falls short of polished filmmaking and raises sharper authenticity concerns.

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