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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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Maestra
✓ verifiedFreemium

Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.

1.5M visits/mo

Generates detailed AI text descriptions of uploaded videos, useful for filmmakers and marketers needing quick synopses or captions.

29K visits/mo
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syncwords.com
✓ verifiedPaid

Pay-per-minute platform for live and recorded AI captioning, foreign subtitling, and real-time voice dubbing for broadcasters.

19K 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)
Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Human transcription (standard, 3-5 days): $1.95/minute of media
Human transcription (fast, same day): $3.45/minute of media
Automated captions (ASR + sync): $0.50/minute of media
Machine translation, first language: $1.00/minute of media
Machine translation, second language: $0.50/minute of media
Burned-in caption files: $3.00 minimum, $0.50/minute above minimum
Professional human translation: from $6.00/minute of media

Free trial available

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
  • Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
  • Subtitle generation, translation and editing
  • AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
  • Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
  • Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
  • Uploads a video and generates a detailed text description
  • Supports follow-up questions about the video's content
  • Offers multi-language description generation
  • Processes videos quickly with encrypted uploads
  • Frame-accurate live AI captioning with broadcast-grade latency
  • Real-time subtitle translation into 40+ languages including non-Latin scripts
  • AI voice dubbing that preserves speaker emotion and tone
  • Delivery via SDI, HLS, SRT and widget-based embeds
  • Caption and subtitle editor with smart segmentation and error detection
  • Human transcription and translation options alongside automated ones
  • 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
  • Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
  • Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
  • Dub audio and video into other languages
  • Caption live events and streams
  • Filmmakers creating synopses and marketing copy from footage
  • Researchers describing user-testing videos for analysis
  • Social media creators generating captions and hashtags from clips
  • Sports and news broadcasters localizing live feeds for global audiences
  • OTT platforms offering translated content tiers
  • Event organizers adding live multilingual captions to conferences and webinars
  • 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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