Video Generation

Hailuo AI alternatives

Explore 8 options alongside Hailuo AI (MiniMax), a product in Video Generation.

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Kling AI

Listed together in guide “AI video generators”

Text-to-video and image-to-video generation model from Kuaishou, producing high-resolution cinematic clips.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Short cinematic clips for social content
  • Animating still images into video
  • Creative experimentation with camera movement

Pricing: Free daily credits are available; paid memberships add more credits, faster queues, and higher resolutions.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.

Vidu

Listed together in guide “AI video generators”

Text-to-video and image-to-video generation model from Shengshu Technology.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Short-form video clips for social media and ads
  • Animating characters consistently across scenes
  • Prototyping storyboards and visual concepts

Pricing: Vidu offers free monthly credits; paid subscriptions add more generations, higher resolution, and faster queues, with API pricing metered separately.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Seedance

Listed together in guide “AI video generators”

Video generation model family from ByteDance supporting multi-shot text- and image-to-video with cinematic motion.

Paid

Use cases

  • Short-form video ads and social content
  • Storyboarding multi-shot narratives from prompts
  • Animating product imagery into motion

Pricing: Seedance is a commercial model priced per generation through the Volcano Engine API; consumer access appears inside ByteDance apps with quotas.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Veo

Listed together in guide “AI video generators”

Google DeepMind's text-to-video model that generates high-definition clips with native audio, available via Gemini and Vertex AI.

Paid

Use cases

  • Short cinematic clips with synchronized sound
  • Creative video inside the Gemini and Flow apps
  • Enterprise video generation through Vertex AI

Pricing: Veo access is included in paid Google AI plans and priced by usage on Vertex AI.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-04.

Wan

Listed together in guide “AI video generators”

Alibaba's Tongyi Wanxiang video generation model family, with open-weight releases.

Open (open weights/source) Apache-2.0

Use cases

  • Generating short video clips from text prompts
  • Animating still images into motion
  • Self-hosted video generation research and products

Pricing: Open-weight Wan models are free to download and run under Apache-2.0; Alibaba's hosted Tongyi Wanxiang service is metered separately.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

Higgsfield

Listed together in guide “AI video generators”

AI video generation platform focused on cinematic camera controls and effects for social and marketing content.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Creating scroll-stopping social media clips
  • Producing product and marketing videos with dynamic camera work
  • Generating stylized avatar and UGC content

Pricing: Higgsfield offers limited free credits and tiered subscriptions that grant monthly credits and access to premium models and features.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

Moonvalley

Listed together in guide “AI video generators”

AI video company whose Marey model is trained only on licensed footage and aimed at professional film production.

Paid

Use cases

  • Commercial film work requiring clean data provenance
  • Previs and VFX shot exploration
  • Ad production with controllable cinematography

Pricing: Moonvalley's Marey is offered through credit-based paid plans; licensed-data training is a core part of its commercial positioning.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Luma Dream Machine

Related: shares the task Video generation

AI video generation model from Luma AI that creates realistic clips from text prompts and still images.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Realistic short clips from prompts or photos
  • Animating still images
  • Creative and social video

Pricing: A free tier with monthly credits is available; paid plans add more credits, faster generation, and higher resolution.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

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