# Mischief 1 image-to-video model is 5x faster and 80% cheaper

> Original title: This is a great model for exploring ideas quickly and cheaply.

- Source: Santiago
- Published: 2026-10-30T13:15:34.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/bojo5esv88x0bbudndmk7mcut
- Original: https://x.com/svpino/status/2116157060543082660

## Summary

This is a great model for exploring ideas quickly and cheaply. It's an image-to-video generation model. 5x faster and 80% lower inference cost than its base open-weight model. • Input: a starting image and a prompt describing what you want • Output: a 720p video • Advantages: Fast generation, low cost. Easy to iterate. • Disadvantages: Output doesn't have production quality.

## Post

This is a great model for exploring ideas quickly and cheaply.

It's an image-to-video generation model. 5x faster and 80% lower inference cost than its base open-weight model.

• Input: a starting image and a prompt describing what you want
• Output: a 720p video
• Advantages: Fast generation, low cost. Easy to iterate.
• Disadvantages: Output doesn't have production quality.

## Quoted post @AlexKsendzovsky

> today, we introduce a little mischief to the world.
> 
> for four years, we’ve been brewing real brain cells on electrodes to understand how they compute. now, we’ve turned those discoveries into a video model anyone can use.
> 
> from 0.5¢ a second, mischief 1 is at least 5x faster than its base and the cheapest image-to-video model on @fal and @OpenRouter. soon to be on @awscloud marketplace.
> 
> it’s not a delusion anymore. biocompute is real, commercial and this is just the beginning.
> 
> happy halloween.

https://x.com/AlexKsendzovsky/status/2116153410101944352