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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
2.2M visits/mo
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Vidu
✓ verifiedFreemium
Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.
3.3M visits/mo50K saves
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HitPaw Photo Restoration
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video editor (HitPaw Edimakor) with text-to-video, avatars, translation, subtitles and face swap for creators.
991K visits/mo4.1K saves
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SyncSketch
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cloud review tool letting VFX, animation and game teams annotate and give timestamped feedback on video and media frames.
1.0M visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)
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Core features
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
- ✦Text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation
- ✦Multi-reference consistency using up to 7 images
- ✦First and last frame transition control
- ✦Anime art-to-video animation
- ✦Unlimited free generation in off-peak mode
- ✦AI sound effect and AI image generation tools
- ✦AI text-to-video and script-to-video
- ✦AI avatars and talking-photo videos
- ✦Video translation and dubbing (400+ voices)
- ✦Auto subtitles and speech-to-text
- ✦Face swap and background remover
- ✦1000+ effects, filters, transitions and templates
- ✦Frame-accurate video and media annotation
- ✦Real-time collaborative review sessions
- ✦Free sign-up option
- ✦Enterprise support options
Use cases
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
- →Marketers producing branded video ads with consistent characters
- →Anime creators animating static art
- →Creators reusing saved characters/props across multiple videos
- →Users wanting fast, low-cost video generation via off-peak mode
- →Editing videos for social media
- →Generating videos from text or scripts
- →Translating and dubbing content
- →Creating marketing and explainer videos
- →VFX studios reviewing shots remotely with clients
- →Game studios collecting feedback on in-progress assets
- →Animation teams running distributed review sessions
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