Dubbing is costed by the word and sold by the minute. Those two units stop agreeing at a specific dialogue density — and past it, a per-minute price quietly loses money. This works out where your line is.
Talent cost scales with words. Crew cost scales with runtime. A single per-minute price treats both as if they moved together, and they don't — so the same rate that is comfortable on a sparse episode is a loss on a dialogue-heavy one. Vertical drama is the sharp case: the genre runs on continuous dialogue and has almost no silence to dilute the word count.
The fix is not a higher flat rate. It is a density band written into the quote — "up to N words per minute at this price, above that at the next" — agreed before the work starts. A tier raised afterwards is a confrontation. A tier printed on the quote is just a term.
One sizing note worth more than the tool itself: size the step to the cost, not to what feels askable. If density rises 30% and your price rises 8%, you have built the feeling of protection without the fact of it.
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