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Pika 2.2 logo
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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AI Subtitle Translator
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI subtitle translator handling 50+ languages and many formats (SRT, VTT, ASS), with batch processing.

64K visits/mo541 saves
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Captionic
✓ verifiedFree

Free AI tool that auto-generates subtitles and embeds them into short videos, with multi-language support.

4.6K visits/mo
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CaptionCreator
✓ verifiedPaid

AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.

11K visits/mo
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Banva
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser-based AI tool that generates, styles and burns subtitles and transcribes audio across 90+ languages.

15K 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)
Credits Pack: $12 one-time (200 credits)
Pro: $10/mo (200 credits/mo)
Pro+: $18/mo (400 credits/mo)

No public pricing

Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)

No public pricing

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
  • Translate subtitles into 50+ languages
  • Supports SRT, VTT, SBV, SUB, ASS, LRC, SMI
  • Auto source-language detection
  • Batch/multi-file processing
  • Free Basic model plus higher-quality Plus model
  • Bundled subtitle converter and SRT cleaner
  • Automatic AI subtitle generation
  • Embeds captions into the video
  • Multi-language support
  • Auto-transcription to subtitles or text
  • Translate audio/video to English subtitles
  • 50+ language support
  • Handles noisy and multilingual audio
  • Non-expiring credit-based usage
  • SRT and plain-text output
  • AI subtitle generation from video or audio
  • Translation across 90+ languages
  • Caption styling with fonts, animations and presets
  • Export as SRT, VTT, TXT or JSON
  • Burn subtitles directly into video
  • Fast parallel processing of long files
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
  • Localizing video subtitles
  • Reaching global audiences
  • Bulk subtitle translation
  • Format conversion and cleanup
  • Adding captions to short-form videos
  • Making video content accessible
  • Improving video engagement and SEO
  • Subtitling videos for creators
  • Translating video into English captions
  • Transcribing recordings to text
  • Adding captions to marketing and social videos
  • Transcribing recordings and podcasts to text
  • Translating subtitles to reach global audiences
  • Styling on-brand captions for short-form content
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