Vidu
by Shengshu Technology
At a glance
Text-to-video and image-to-video generation model from Shengshu Technology.
video-generation text-to-video image-to-video
- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Video Generation
- Business model
- Freemium
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2024-07
Overview
Vidu is a video generation model and service from China's Shengshu Technology, producing clips from text prompts or reference images. It emphasizes character consistency across shots and fast generation, and is available globally through a web app and API. A free tier with credits is offered, with paid plans for higher resolution and volume.
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Key features
- Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- Character consistency across generated shots
- Reference-based generation from uploaded images
- Web app plus API access for developers
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.
Record details
Provenance, dates and links are kept here so the main sections stay about the product itself.
Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- CN
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/vidu/
Selection profile
Every field says where its value comes from. "Unknown" means we have not confirmed it — it does not mean the product lacks the feature.
Selection profile11 fields3 unknown
- Tasks it fits
- Video generation
Derived from the record: category "video-generation".
Suggest a correction - How you use it
- Web app
Hosted product with no desktop/CLI tag in the record; assumed web-delivered.
Suggest a correction - Runs on
- Web
Derived from platform words in the record description/features/tags.
Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Not recorded
The record contains no offline-operation claim.
Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
Suggest a correction - Public API
- Yes
The record mentions an API surface.
Suggest a correction - Licence
- proprietary
Commercial product; no source licence is published in the record.
Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
Commercial product; the terms reviewed here do not state a non-commercial restriction, but that was not verified.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
No vendor page read in this pass states the product's own interface languages; the key exists so the field can be answered later rather than left absent.
Suggest a correction - Billing
- Subscription Free allowance: Limited Subscription required: No
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
- Our inference
- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Our inference
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
What is Vidu?
Vidu is a text-to-video and image-to-video generation service from Shengshu Technology, available via web app and API.
Is Vidu free?
Vidu provides free monthly credits; more generations and higher resolution require a paid plan.
What is Vidu known for?
Vidu is noted for keeping characters consistent across shots and for fast video generation.
What does Vidu not record?
Its record states that no vendor pricing page was in the fetch scope, so no plan price or licence terms are confirmed.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.
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