AI video tools compared side by side — prices, features, what each one actually does
| Name↕ | Origin↕ | Freetier↕ | Pricing↕ | Features↕ | Maxlength↕ | Resolution↕ | Api↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kling 3.0 🇨🇳 China | 🇨🇳 China | 66 credits/day | $10–$180/mo list (Standard $10, Pro $37, Premier $92, Ultra $180); first-month promo $6.99/$25.99/$64.99/$127.99; annual −34% on Standard–Premier ($79.20/$293.04/$728.64) — Ultra has no annual option | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Video-to-Video, Native multilingual audio + per-character Lip Sync (Omni), All-in-One reference (3–8s character video or multi-image subject lock), Multi-shot Storyboard, Camera Controls, Motion Brush, 4K, Character Consistency — Video 3.0 & Omni launched Feb 5, 2026; 3.0 Turbo Jun 17, 2026 | 15s (extendable via multi-shot) | 4K | Yes |
| Runway Gen-4.5 🇺🇸 USA | 🇺🇸 USA | 125 one-time credits | $15–$95/mo monthly (Standard $15, Pro $35, Max $95; $12/$28/$76 annual); API $0.01/credit = $0.12/s on Gen-4.5, $0.05/s on Gen-4 Turbo | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Video-to-Video, Lip Sync (Act-One), Camera Controls (Multi-Motion Brush), Gen-4.5 flagship, Aleph 2.0 video-to-video editing, Gen-4 Turbo, Runway MCP, custom voice clones — also hosts third-party models (Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro) | 10s | 4K (upscaling on Standard+) | Yes |
| Sora 2 (Legacy) 🇺🇸 USA | 🇺🇸 USA | None — consumer app shut down Apr 26, 2026 | RETIRED — the Sora API sunset on Sep 24, 2026 (deprecation notice Mar 24, 2026). sora-2, sora-2-pro and dated snapshots now return 410 Gone. No replacement video model listed by OpenAI; migrate to Veo/Omni, Kling, Runway or Seedance. | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Camera Controls, Style Transfer — DISCONTINUED. App/web closed Apr 26, 2026; API removed Sep 24, 2026. | 60s (historical) | 1080p (historical) | No — API removed Sep 24, 2026 |
| Google Veo 3.1 🇺🇸 USA | 🇺🇸 USA | Google AI Pro $19.99/mo (1,000 Flow credits) | API per sec: Lite $0.03–$0.08, Fast $0.10–$0.12 (4K $0.30), Standard $0.40 (4K $0.60) — audio included | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Native Audio, Camera Controls, Flow interface, Lite tier (Mar 2026), 4K on Vertex AI / Gemini API (premium tier) | 8s | 720p/1080p standard, 4K premium | Yes (Gemini API / Vertex AI) |
| Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash 🇺🇸 USA | 🇺🇸 USA | Gemini app (with limits); no free API tier | API ~$0.10/s at 720p; 4K output $0.304/s (upscaled). Token billing: $1.50/M input tokens, $9.00/M text out, $17.50/M video out | Any-input generation (text+image+audio+video), Conversational editing, Native audio, Replaces Veo in the Gemini app — GA Aug 27, 2026 as gemini-omni-1.1-flash; the older preview ID is deprecated Sep 30, 2026; outputs up to 4K via upscale from 720p-native generation | 10s | 720p native, up to 4K upscaled | Yes (Gemini API / AI Studio) |
| Pika 2.5 🇺🇸 USA | 🇺🇸 USA | Basic free — 80 credits/mo, 480p only, no watermark removal, no commercial rights | $10/$35/$95 per month (Standard 700cr / Pro 2,300cr / Fancy 6,000cr); annual $8/$28/$76. All paid tiers include commercial rights + watermark-free downloads | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Pikaffects (melt/explode/inflate), Pikascenes, Pikadditions, Pikaswaps, Pikatwists, Pikaframes, Sound Effects, Lip Sync | 10s (up to 25s via Pikaframes) | 1080p | Yes |
| Luma Dream Machine 🇺🇸 USA | 🇺🇸 USA | None on Luma Agents; the legacy Dream Machine free tier is no longer listed (trials only) | $30–$300/mo (Plus $30, Pro $90, Ultra $300); annual ≈17% off ($25/$75/$250). Credits do not roll over; the old Dream Machine and the new Luma Agents ladders are billed separately | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Video-to-Video, Ray 3.x models, Lip Sync (Ray3), Camera Controls, Style Transfer, HDR export, Luma Agents (usage-capacity model since Mar 2026) | 30s | 1080p | Yes |
| Vidu Q3 🇨🇳 China | 🇨🇳 China | Free tier: 80 credits/mo + limited reference quota (unlimited off-peak generation is documented as an Ultimate-tier feature) | $10–$99/mo (Standard $10/800cr, Premium $35/4,000cr, Ultimate $99/8,000cr + 200 off-peak videos/day; $8/$28/$79 annual) | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Video-to-Video, Native audio+video single pass (Q3 — first to ship), Multi-Entity Consistency (7 reference images), Reference-to-Video, Anime strength, offline/off-peak mode | 60s (cinema mode) | 1080p | Yes |
| MiniMax H3 (Hailuo) 🇨🇳 China | 🇨🇳 China | Trial credits | API $0.08/s (768P), $0.13/s (2K), H3-Max 480P $0.05/s; 768P→2K regenerate $0.05/s of output; first 5 reference images free then $0.04 each; input audio free. Launched Jul 31, 2026 | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Reference-to-Video, Native stereo audio in the same pass, 24fps, 4–15s clips; open weights (MiniMax-H3-Base) on Hugging Face since Aug 2, 2026 under MiniMax community licence (Context-IR and 2K regenerate stay hosted) | 15s | 768P / 2K | Yes |
| Seedance 2.5 🇨🇳 China | 🇨🇳 China | Jimeng free tier (watermarked) | Official BytePlus/ModelArk token rate: ¥70/M tokens without video input, ¥42/M with video input → about $0.1028/s at 480p and $0.2312/s at 720p. Resellers sit at $0.12–$0.14/s (480p); OpenRouter lists up to $2.08/s at 4K. Subs via Jimeng/Dreamina | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Multi-modal (text+image+audio+video, up to 50 reference assets/request), first-frame and first+last-frame control, Single-pass 4–30s generation, Region-level editing, 10+ languages, native audio — 2.5 launched Jul 31, 2026. Natively 480p/720p at 24fps; 1080p/4K tiers are provider-side rollouts or upscales | 30s | 480p/720p native (1080p/4K via provider upscale) | Yes (BytePlus, Volcengine, Replicate, fal, OpenRouter) |
| PixVerse V6 🇨🇳 China | 🇨🇳 China | 90 signup + 60 credits/day (watermarked, 540p) | $10–$199/mo (Standard $10/1,200cr, Pro $30/6,000cr, Premium $60/15,000cr, Ultra $199/25,000cr; annual $8/$24/$48/$149). API sells prepaid credits from $10 PAYG packs to $100/mo Essential | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Video-to-Video, Native Audio (V6), Style Selection, Camera Presets, Multi-shot Generation, up to 4K on paid tiers | 15s | 4K (Pro and above; Standard caps at 720p) | Yes |
| Grok Imagine Video 1.5 🇺🇸 USA | 🇺🇸 USA | None — free generation restricted Jan 2026, fully paid since Mar 2026 | API $0.08/s (480p), $0.14/s (720p), $0.25/s (1080p), plus $0.01/image input; batch pricing N/A. Consumer access via SuperGrok. Released Jul 20, 2026 | Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Reference-to-Video (up to 7 images), Native Audio, first-frame steering, 1–15s clips, 480p/720p/1080p, multiple aspect ratios | 15s | 480p–1080p | Yes (docs.x.ai) |
| Stable Video Diffusion 🇬🇧 UK | 🇬🇧 UK | Open source/free | Free self-hosted (hosted API retired) | Image-to-Video, Video-to-Video (frame interp.), Open-source | 4s | 1024x576 | No (self-hosted only) |