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Intelligence Verdict
AI tools · Make something new

Video creation

Short video clips from words or a still image. What each tool costs, where it runs, what it shipped last, and what its terms say about what you make.

  • 8tools compared
  • 3 of 8have a free plan
  • $4.99a month, the cheapest paid plan
9 tools

Compare them.

Makers' own descriptions, plans and terms, read Oct 20, 2026, so company-reported. Open "Rights" or "Your data" on a card for the maker's own words.

Kling AI

Kuaishou Technology · China

“Create high-quality AI videos and images with Kling AI. Turn text, images, and references into multimodal creative content in one studio.”

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Pika

Pika (Mellis Inc.)

Free planPaid from $10 a month

0 monthly credits ('packs only'); 'Not included: Commercial license'

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Rights
Who owns what you make
“Included: Commercial license”

Pika pricing, Oct 20, 2026

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“An all-in-one AI creative platform powered by advanced image and video generation models”

Free planPaid from $19.99 a month

Free daily credits on Dreamina (amount not stated)

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1 dispute
In dispute, Feb 13, 2026

Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist letter over Seedance 2.0. Axios: 'The Walt Disney Company on Friday sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance,'

No lawsuit, settlement or ruling verified as of 2026-10-20.

Axios

Website · Prices · Description · company-reported · Full details

Sora

OpenAI

Discontinued

Last wordSora API discontinuedSep 24, 2026

Rights
Who owns what you make
“As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input and (b) own the Output.”

OpenAI Terms of Use, Jan 1, 2026

Website · Prices · company-reported · Full details

Ranked by people's votes

Which models people prefer.

On Arena (formerly LMArena), people compare two results for the same request without knowing which model made which, and vote. Many of the apps above run these models.

Video from words
  1. 1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashGoogle1516
  2. 2gemini-omni-flashGoogle1513
  3. 3FLUX 3 VideoBlack Forest Labs · preliminary1493
  4. 4Grok Imagine Video 1.5SpaceXAI · preliminary1492
  5. 5Dreamina Seedance 2.0 (720p)Bytedance1479

Arena, Sep 21, 2026 · 718,577 votes; 48 models

Video from a picture
  1. 1MiniMax H3MiniMax1495
  2. 2Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashGoogle1488
  3. 3Wan 3.0Alibaba1480
  4. 4Dreamina Seedance 2.5 (720p)Bytedance1477
  5. 5Dreamina Seedance 2.0 (720p)Bytedance1475

Arena, Sep 21, 2026 · 2,081,953 votes; 48 models