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Kling AI turns text or images into cinematic AI video, plus image and sound generation, for creators and studios.
Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
Cloud video enhancer that upscales blurry footage to 1080p using AI models tuned by content type.
AI video platform that turns text and images into videos with lip-sync, bundling many models plus upscaling and editing tools.
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
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- ✦AI video generation from text and images
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦Reference-based multimodal creation
- ✦Single creative studio
- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦AI-based video upscaling to 1080p
- ✦Content-type-specific enhancement models (ads, vlogs, gaming, CCTV, anime, etc.)
- ✦Cloud processing with no software installation
- ✦Fast turnaround, typically under 10 minutes
- ✦Support for major video formats up to 2GB
- ✦Free sample before paid full-video processing
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video
- ✦Lip-sync and talking avatar videos
- ✦Access to multiple AI video models
- ✦Video and image upscaling
- ✦Watermark removal and FPS boost
- ✦Text-to-speech and sound effects
- ✦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
- →Short-form and social video creation
- →Storyboarding and previz
- →Advertising and brand clips
- →Animating still images
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Creators improving low-resolution personal or archival videos
- →Marketers enhancing promotional video footage
- →Streamers upscaling gaming or sports clips
- →Users restoring old family or vlog recordings
- →Generating short marketing or social videos
- →Creating talking avatar clips
- →Enhancing and upscaling existing videos
- →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