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What a video production company in India actually costs
Three Indian production companies publish a price guide for the same thing, a two minute corporate video. One says 75,000 rupees to 2.5 lakh. One says 3 lakh to 10 lakh. One says 15 lakh to 50 lakh at the top. Same brief, and the published answers run from about 40,000 rupees to 50 lakh.
Where they do agree is the crew day rates, and those match closely. So the honest way to estimate a video in India is to stop asking what a video costs and start counting shoot days.
Every figure on this page is quoted from a company that published it openly, and each one is named so you can go and read it yourself. We do not publish our own prices and this page does not contain them, which is a fair thing for you to hold against it.
Why nobody can give you one number
A video is not a product with a price. It is a number of days of a number of people, plus whatever is built afterwards. Two companies quoting the same script can be twelve times apart and both be honest, because one is planning a single interview in your own office and the other is planning two locations, a director of photography, a cast and a grade.
The quote is really an answer to a question nobody asked out loud: how many days, and how many people on each day. Once you know that, the rest of the estimate follows, and this page is mostly about getting you to that question faster.
What three Indian companies actually publish
These are all public pages, read in September 2026, and all three companies sell video production, so read them as interested parties rather than as a survey.
Cybertize Media Productions
Gurugram · their published corporate video cost guide
Three bands. Basic videos at 25,000 to 75,000 rupees, including 25,000 to 50,000 for a one day shoot with a small crew. Mid range corporate films at 75,000 to 2.5 lakh, with a two minute corporate video put at 75,000 to 2 lakh. High end at 2.5 lakh to 10 lakh and above.
By format they publish: brand and profile films 1 lakh to 5 lakh, live action product demos 50,000 to 2.5 lakh, testimonial videos 40,000 to 1.5 lakh, training videos 30,000 to 2 lakh, event coverage 30,000 to 2 lakh.
Shunyanant
Delhi NCR · their published breakdown
Also three bands, for the same two minute corporate video, and much higher. Freelance and boutique at 40,000 to 1.5 lakh. Mid range at 3 lakh to 10 lakh. High end at 15 lakh to 50 lakh and above. They put a television commercial at 15 lakh minimum.
Frame Makerzzz
Mumbai · their published cost page
Basic corporate video 50,000 to 1 lakh. A three to five minute corporate profile film in live action at 1 lakh to 5 lakh, which they also give as the typical spend. Elaborate multi location work at 5 lakh to 50 lakh and above. A single day shoot with a professional crew at 50,000 to 3 lakh and above.
Read those three together and the useful finding is the disagreement. There is a rough consensus at the bottom, around 25,000 to 1 lakh for something simple. Above that the market has no agreed price at all, and the gap is not quality, it is who each company is quoting for. A Delhi firm writing for large corporate buyers and a Mumbai firm writing for small businesses will both call the same film mid range.
Where they do agree: the day rates
The two Delhi NCR guides publish crew rates that sit almost on top of each other, which is the strongest signal on this page because it is the part nobody has a reason to exaggerate.
Crew, per day, Delhi NCR, September 2026
- Director of photography: 25,000 to 1,00,000. Both guides give the same band.
- Camera package: 10,000 to 50,000 across the two.
- Lighting and grip: 8,000 to 30,000.
- Sound recordist: 10,000 to 25,000.
- Drone operator: 15,000 to 50,000.
- Studio hire: 15,000 to 75,000.
- Professional actors: 10,000 to 1,00,000 and above.
- Production assistant: 3,000 to 8,000.
The work either side of the shoot
- Scriptwriting: 15,000 to 50,000 on both Delhi guides. The Mumbai one starts at 5,000.
- Storyboarding: 8,000 to 20,000 on the Delhi guides.
- Editing: 15,000 to 60,000, and up to 2 lakh on the Mumbai guide.
- Colour grading: 10,000 to 40,000.
- Sound design and mix: 8,000 to 25,000.
- Voice over: 5,000 to 30,000.
- Music licensing: 3,000 to 15,000.
The one number that moves your bill
Add the crew list up. A single shoot day with a director of photography, a camera package, lighting, sound and one assistant lands somewhere between about 55,000 rupees at the low end of every band and well over two lakh at the high end, before anybody has edited anything.
So one shoot day removed from a plan is usually the largest saving available to you, and it is larger than any discount you will negotiate. That is why the same script can cost four times as much depending on how it is planned, and why a company that shoots five videos in one day can price each of them at a fraction of the single video price.
The practical version: if a quote feels high, do not ask for a discount. Ask how many shoot days it contains and what would have to change to make it one fewer.
Animation is priced per minute, and there is a strange thing in the numbers
For animation the market quotes per finished minute rather than per project. The Delhi NCR guides publish 2D explainer video at 25,000 to 75,000 rupees a minute, motion graphics at 40,000 to 90,000 a minute, and 3D product animation at 1 lakh to 2.5 lakh a minute. The Mumbai page gives 3D more widely, at 15,000 to 3 lakh and above.
Two of those pages carry identical figures for all three categories, so treat them as a market convention rather than as two independent quotes. They are still useful, because a convention is what a supplier will expect you to have read.
Now the strange part, and it is worth knowing before you negotiate. Broadcast2World produces its animation in Gurugram and sells mostly to companies abroad. Its published price is 2,400 US dollars a minute, roughly two lakh rupees, with a sixty second video averaging around 2,800 dollars, four to six weeks to deliver, and a 500 dollar surcharge to compress that to two weeks.
So animation made in the same city is sold at 25,000 to 75,000 rupees a minute to an Indian buyer and at roughly two lakh a minute to an overseas one. That is not dishonesty, it is two different markets, and the studios that work well in both are usually the ones with the deepest teams. It does mean an Indian buyer comparing a local quote against an international rate card is comparing two different things.
The monthly arrangement, which is priced differently again
Both Delhi guides publish a social media video retainer at 60,000 to 1.5 lakh a month. That buys a quantity of short videos each month rather than one film, and it is the part of the market closest to what a clinic, a coach or an expert usually needs.
The number to ask for is the cost per finished video at that rate, and then the cost per finished video if you commit to a year. Almost every company quotes per project, and per year is where the real difference between two suppliers shows up.
Seven things almost never in the quote
- Publishing. Delivery usually means a file sent to you. Putting it out on each platform, every week, with titles and descriptions written for each, is separate work and often nobody's job.
- The page a viewer lands on. Views are not enquiries. If there is nowhere for a viewer to go, the view is all you bought.
- Reporting. How many people arrived, enquired, paid and came back. Ask what the report contains before you sign, not after.
- Rules and compliance. For doctors especially, this is real and it is rarely anybody's line item. Three sets of rules apply to a doctor's video at the same time and one of them carries a prison term.
- Your own time. Never priced, always spent. Ask how many hours a month the plan needs from you and what happens in a month where you can give none.
- Raw footage. Many contracts hand over the final cut only. Ask before signing, because the raw material is what lets anybody re-cut it in two years without a new shoot.
- Revisions past the included round. Usually two rounds are included. Find out what the third one costs while you still have a choice of supplier.
How to read a quote in five minutes
- Split it three ways. Pre-production, shoot, post-production. A company that will not split it is protecting a margin, not a method.
- Count the shoot days. Then ask what one fewer would look like.
- Count the people on each day. Crew size is the second biggest number in the bill.
- Find the per finished minute figure. Divide the total by the finished runtime. It is the only number that compares two very different quotes.
- Ask for the same quote as a yearly arrangement. The answer tells you whether you are buying a project or a supplier.
Why our own price is not on this page
Because it would be a made up number. What we do is priced per person, and the two things that move it are how much usable material already exists and how many places it has to be published. A doctor with two hundred hours of recorded talks and a coach with nothing on camera are not the same job, and a single figure here would be wrong for both.
If you want ours, ask on a call and you will get a real number in that conversation rather than a range. Everything above is here so you can judge that number against the market instead of taking it on trust.
Common questions
How much does a corporate video cost in India?
Published guides from Indian production companies in 2026 put a basic corporate video at roughly 25,000 to 1 lakh rupees, a standard three to five minute corporate profile film at 1 lakh to 5 lakh, and high end or multi location work anywhere from 2.5 lakh to 50 lakh and above. The companies agree at the bottom of the market and disagree sharply at the top, because each is writing for a different kind of buyer.
How much does a two minute corporate video cost in India?
It depends on who you ask, and the published answers differ by a factor of more than thirty. Cybertize Media puts a two minute corporate video at 75,000 to 2 lakh rupees. Shunyanant gives the same brief as 40,000 to 1.5 lakh for a freelancer or boutique, 3 lakh to 10 lakh mid range, and 15 lakh to 50 lakh at the top. The number of shoot days and the size of the crew explain most of the difference.
What are video crew day rates in Delhi NCR?
Published rates for 2026 are broadly consistent across Delhi NCR guides. A director of photography is 25,000 to 1,00,000 rupees a day. A camera package is 10,000 to 50,000 a day. Lighting and grip are 8,000 to 30,000. A sound recordist is 10,000 to 25,000. A drone operator is 15,000 to 50,000. Studio hire is 15,000 to 75,000. A production assistant is 3,000 to 8,000.
What makes video production expensive?
Shoot days, and the number of people on each one. A single day with a director of photography, camera, lighting, sound and an assistant costs from roughly 55,000 rupees to over two lakh before any editing happens. Removing one shoot day from a plan usually saves more than any discount you could negotiate, which is why the same script can cost four times as much depending on how it is planned.
How much does animation cost per minute in India?
Indian agency guides commonly publish 2D explainer animation at 25,000 to 75,000 rupees per finished minute, motion graphics at 40,000 to 90,000, and 3D product animation at 1 lakh to 2.5 lakh. The same three figures appear on multiple Indian agency pages, so treat them as a market convention rather than as independent quotes. For comparison, Broadcast2World, which produces in Gurugram and sells mainly abroad, publishes 2,400 US dollars per minute, roughly two lakh rupees.
What does a monthly video retainer cost in India?
Delhi NCR guides publish a social media video retainer at 60,000 to 1.5 lakh rupees a month, which buys a set number of short videos each month rather than one film. The figure to ask for is the cost per finished video at that rate, and then the cost per finished video on a yearly commitment, because almost everyone quotes per project and the yearly figure is where suppliers actually differ.
How much does an explainer video cost in India?
Published Indian figures put an animated explainer of sixty to ninety seconds at roughly 50,000 to 5 lakh rupees, and per finished minute 2D explainer work at 25,000 to 75,000. Studios selling mainly to overseas clients charge considerably more for the same work: Broadcast2World publishes 2,400 dollars per minute with a sixty second video averaging around 2,800 dollars.
What is usually not included in a video production quote?
Seven things are commonly left out: publishing the video across platforms, the page a viewer lands on afterwards, reporting on enquiries and sales rather than views, compliance review, the client's own time, ownership of the raw footage, and revisions beyond the included rounds. Ask about each before signing rather than after delivery.
How do I compare two very different video quotes?
Divide each total by the finished runtime to get a cost per finished minute, then compare the number of shoot days and the crew size on each. Ask both companies to split the quote into pre-production, shoot and post-production, and ask both what the same work would cost as a yearly arrangement rather than a single project.
Is a freelancer cheaper than a video production company in India?
Usually yes on the quote. Published Indian guides put freelance and boutique work at roughly 40,000 to 1.5 lakh rupees for a two minute corporate video against 3 lakh and above for an agency. The difference is capacity and continuity rather than craft: a freelancer cannot film in four cities in one week, and a supplier who disappears for a month stops a publishing schedule that an agency would keep running.
How long does a corporate video take to make in India?
A filmed corporate video generally takes two to four weeks from brief to final cut, with one or two of those days being the shoot itself. Animation takes longer because everything is built rather than filmed, and Broadcast2World publishes four to six weeks as standard with a two week rush available at a 500 dollar surcharge. Scripts needing legal or medical review add about a week that estimates rarely allow for.
Akash Gupta
Founder of PhantasyLabs, part of Peepoye Network. He built a YouTube channel to 12.8 lakh subscribers before building the system that now runs it, and PhantasyLabs produces and publishes video for doctors, coaches, experts and brands. More about us.
Every price on this page is quoted from a company's own published guide, read in September 2026, and each source is named in the text. All of those companies sell video production, so their figures describe what they expect to charge rather than an independent survey of the market. Prices move, rates differ by city and season, and a quote for your own brief is the only figure that binds anybody. Dollar figures are converted at approximate September 2026 rates. PhantasyLabs does not publish its prices and none appear on this page.