TBC launches Mischief 1 video from 2.5 cents per five-second clip

The Biological Computing Co. released Mischief 1 on October 30, offering image-to-video generation through fal and OpenRouter from $0.005 per second at 480p. A five-second clip costs $0.025, making 100 such clips $2.50. Users supply a starting image and a text description of what should happen.

At 720p, the published rate doubles to $0.01 per second, or $0.05 for five seconds. It lists three- and five-second clips and says EU in-region routing is currently unavailable.

“Neuron-derived” describes TBC’s discovery process. The company says it converts computing problems into electrical signals, measures living neurons’ responses and translates useful principles into software. Its FAQ says the neurons remain in the laboratory; customers generate video using software on conventional AI hardware.

Mischief 1 builds on the open-weight Wan 2.2 video model. TBC describes a post-training software layer around its diffusion-transformer blocks, adding less than 0.1% to the underlying parameter count. The approach targets computation within an existing model.

Fivefold speed is a company comparison

TBC claims five-times-faster generation at matching quality against its base model. Its homepage also advertises an 80% cost reduction. Those are company comparisons, not a fixed completion time for every request. The launch release lacks a detailed table of hardware, test scenes and independent evaluation results.

Fal’s API returns landscape MP4 video at 16 frames per second, at 832×480 or 1280×720 depending on resolution. A requested five-second clip renders 81 frames, lasting 5.0625 seconds; billing uses the requested five seconds. A three-second request produces 49 frames.

Prompt enhancement is the default. The seed controls video rendering rather than prompt rewriting. Fal says reproducible requests require both a fixed seed and original-prompt processing.

Wonder Studios contributed a production-workflow example to the launch announcement. Co-founder Justin Hackney said the studio tested Mischief 1 and could develop ideas further within the same time and budget. That assessment appears in TBC’s customer testimonial. The product page describes exploring framing, movement and mood before a final render or live-action shoot. Other proposed uses include mood reels and proof-of-concept clips for pitches, plus testing different advertising hooks and variants. These are the company’s proposed workflows. Fal exposes image, prompt, resolution and duration controls publicly, with sign-in required to generate clips.

An October 30 post on TBC’s Instagram describes A.J. Garces making a pumpkin-themed film with 28 five-second clips generated in six-and-a-half minutes. That is a company-published production example, with a different measurement scope from its fivefold comparison against the base model.

The public marketplaces and AWS distribution remain at different stages. On September 23, TBC announced plans to run its optimized model on AWS Trainium, enable deployment through Amazon SageMaker AI and distribute it through AWS Marketplace. The plan would put TBC-optimized models into AWS environments and workflows already used by enterprise customers. That announcement invited early-access applications. The October 30 release extends access through fal and OpenRouter.

Founder Alex Ksendzovsky’s launch post describes AWS Marketplace availability as coming soon. Fal and OpenRouter are the confirmed public distribution channels. TBC says work applying its discovery process to newer open-weight video models, language models and physical AI remains in development.