Two kinds of tool
Neural Frames is an AI music video generator. You upload a song, pick a style, and AI video models such as Kling, Seedance, Runway and Stable Diffusion produce footage for it: a singer under a spotlight, a recurring character, a story in scenes, or a stream of morphing abstract frames. Its Autopilot mode turns a whole song into a finished video, and its editors let you work scene by scene or frame by frame.
Groovalizer makes no footage. It runs projectM, the open-source successor to Winamp’s MilkDrop, in your browser, with 2,100+ presets written as equations. The bass, mids, treble and beats move each preset’s geometry every frame, so the picture comes from the music, drawn live. Exporting records what you watched.
That difference decides almost everything below, the prices included. Here is how it plays out.
What Neural Frames costs
The Neural Frames pricing page in October 2026 lists three plans. Neural Knight is $39 a month for 2,400 credits, with 1080p upscaling and no 4K. Neural Ninja is $99 a month for 7,200 credits and adds 4K upscaling. Neural Nirvana is $299 a month for 24,000 credits with priority upscaling. Yearly billing takes a third off, so Knight works out to $26 a month, billed as $312.
A calculator on the page prices a video by song length, up to 10 minutes, and by model. The page says credit use depends on your workflow, the video’s length and the AI model. Unused credits roll over while you stay subscribed, up to three months’ worth, and failed generations cost nothing. Exports run at 25 frames per second.
Groovalizer charges flat prices for exporting, with no credits. The free plan plays every preset on your own track and downloads the video at 720p with a watermark. A clean video is $4.99, Pro is $14.99 a month or $144 a year, and a video spends no credits whatever its length.
Groovalizer vs Neural Frames at a glance
| Groovalizer | Neural Frames |
|---|
| Pricing | Free 720p videos · $4.99 per clean video · Pro $14.99/mo | $39, $99 or $299 a month (a third off yearly) |
| Credits per video | None: exporting spends no credits | Yes, by video length and AI model |
| What makes the picture | 2,100+ audio-reactive presets | AI video models (Kling, Seedance, Runway, Stable Diffusion) |
| How the music shapes it | Bass, mids, treble and beats move the preset every frame | Audio-reactive effects across 8 extracted stems |
| People and scenes | No | Yes: lip sync, characters, story scenes |
| Frame rate | 30 or 60 fps | 25 fps |
| Aspect ratios | 16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:5 | Horizontal and vertical |
| Where the video is made | Your browser, on your machine | You upload the song to Neural Frames |
| Live / projector mode | Yes: microphone, line input or computer audio | Not listed |
| AI | Optional agent writes a preset from a sentence | Generates the footage itself |
Neural Frames facts from neuralframes.com and neuralframes.com/pricing, October 2026, monthly list prices. Groovalizer limits come from the plan table the app enforces.
Where Neural Frames wins
If the video needs a face, a body or a place, Groovalizer cannot make it. Lip sync, a character who stays the same across an album, a narrative with cuts: that is generated footage, and it is what Neural Frames is built for. It also splits a song into 8 stems and lets you tie effects to each one, which is finer audio control than a preset’s bass, mids and treble.
Its trippy frame-by-frame mode is where the two tools meet. Both make abstract motion that follows the track. Neural Frames paints it with an image model and bills it in credits; Groovalizer computes it from equations on your machine.
Where Groovalizer fits
Groovalizer suits a release schedule. Each single, remix and teaser can get a video without spending credits: pick a look, hear it on your track, export it in 16:9 for YouTube or 9:16 for TikTok and Reels. Song parts give the drop a different look from the intro. Because the presets react live, the same visuals run on a projector in Live mode, from a microphone or the computer’s own audio.
The AI part is optional. Describe a look in a sentence and the built-in agent writes a new preset, tests it on the real engine and revises it; that, and automatic lyric timing past the monthly allowance, are what spend credits. You can also paste the app’s prompt into a chatbot you already use for free, or connect your own coding agent; most of its tools cost nothing.
Which one to open
Open Neural Frames when you want AI footage of people, places or a story, and you are happy to pay for it by the credit. Open Groovalizer when you want the music to shape the picture, want videos for your releases without paying per credit, or want the song to stay on your machine.
Watching is free, so play your own track through a few looks first. The free 720p export shows you the finished video before you pay for a clean one.