Listed together in guide “AI video generators”
Text-to-video and image-to-video model from MiniMax for generating short cinematic clips.
Freemium
Use cases
- Short cinematic clips for social content
- Animating still images
- Creative video experiments
Pricing: Free daily credits are available; paid plans add more credits, faster queues, and higher resolution.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AI Studios: Presenter videos using synthetic avatars.
Freemium
Use cases
- Creating presenter-led training and onboarding videos
- Creating product demonstrations and campaign videos
Pricing: Free includes 1 priority video per month and 16 one-time generative credits. Personal increases priority videos and includes dubbing minutes; generation models consume separate credits. Interactive Avatar has a distinct plan family.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.