TBC mischief 1 turns an image into video on OpenRouter

The Biological Computing Co. launched mischief 1 on October 30, an image-to-video model it calls neuron-derived. TBC says it is live on OpenRouter and on fal. OpenRouter lists the model as tbc/mischief-1, from $0.005 a second.

What a clip can be

OpenRouter says mischief 1 takes text and images and returns video. It generates at 480p and 720p, in clips of 3 or 5 seconds, at a 16 by 9 frame, steered by a first-frame image. The OpenRouter demo shows one input and three 5 second clips at 720p, and the frame prices each of those at $0.05. That matches the page's 720p rate of $0.01 a second. At 480p the same five seconds is $0.025. The page calls it a fit for ideation, previsualization, mood boards, and variant testing.

Why TBC says it is faster

TBC's press release says mischief 1 is built on Wan 2.2, matches that base model's quality, and generates video 5 times faster at a fraction of the cost. The product page says a Wan 2.2 base take averaged 142 seconds and mischief 1 averaged 12 seconds in TBC's GPU benchmarks, shown sped up 10 times, and that real generation times vary. The same page says inference cost is 80 percent lower. Those numbers are TBC's own tests. The press release also says TBC calls this the lowest-priced image-to-video model on both fal and OpenRouter. It does not print a comparison table from either marketplace.

What the neurons are

TBC says it grows living neurons on electrodes, measures how they process information, and turns that into software that runs on ordinary AI hardware. The neurons stay in the lab. The software adds less than 0.1 percent to the base model's parameter count. A customer is not renting a biological computer. The press release says video is the first commercial application, with language models and physical AI still in development. It also says an AWS collaboration for enterprise customers was announced five weeks earlier. The posts do not list a free tier, a waitlist, or a region limit.