Is Bonega legit, and what happens when I pay?
Bonega is a real product operated by a company registered at Avenue de Jurigoz 15, 1006 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, online since 2024. Paying is a normal card subscription taken through Stripe: the 3-day trial REQUIRES A CARD and grants 63 credits on the Standard plan, and unless you cancel before it ends the plan begins at $9 per month. Subscriptions are billed in advance, monthly or annually, and fees are non-refundable except as required by law — if you meant to cancel a trial and did not, email within 14 days and the request is reviewed case by case for accounts that have used fewer than 150 credits. There is no anonymous checkout, no crypto payment, and no auto-renewing product you have not seen the price of first.
What you are charged, and when
- Trial: 3 days, card required at sign-up, 63 credits on Standard. No charge until it ends.
- Standard, $9/month — 200 credits per month, about 48 seconds of video.
- Pro, $49/month — 1500 credits per month, about 6 min 3 s of video.
- Credit packs are one-time purchases, not a subscription, for usage beyond a plan's monthly credits.
- Billing runs in advance. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period you are in.
What the product actually does
Text or an image becomes video. A clip longer than 15 seconds is generated as a chain of segments, each animating the last frame of the one before it, merged into a single MP4 — so the total length is not capped by the model's per-clip limit. Credits are spent per second of video generated, at 4.125 credits per second, and a generation that fails does not consume them.
What it is not: it is not a stock library, it is not a human editing service, and it does not promise that any particular named model will be used for your clip. The pipeline picks a model per step.
Checking for yourself before paying
- The company address and links are published in the Organization structured data on the homepage, not only in prose.
- Pricing, credit costs and plan limits are on /pricing and in /help/credits-and-pricing, stated as numbers rather than ranges.
- The terms, including the billing and refund sentences quoted above, are at /terms.
- Support is reachable at /contact before you buy, not only after.
What this means for you
Judge it the way you would any small tool: the company is named, based in Switzerland, reachable, and the terms and refund conditions are published on the site. If you need an enterprise procurement trail, a signed DPA or a support SLA, ask before you buy rather than after. If you want to test it, the 3-day trial is the way in and it requires a card, so decide as you would for any subscription you intend to cancel: put the date in your calendar before you start.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the free trial require a card?
Yes. The 3-day trial requires a card and grants 63 credits on the Standard plan. Nothing is charged until the trial ends, and cancelling before then prevents the charge.
Can I get a refund?
Fees are non-refundable except as required by law. The one stated exception is a forgotten trial cancellation: email within 14 days, and requests are reviewed case by case for accounts that have used fewer than 150 credits.
Where is the company based?
Avenue de Jurigoz 15, 1006 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. The same address is published in the site's Organization structured data.