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Video Compress
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free-tier browser video compressor supporting 40+ formats with credit-based limits on file size and monthly usage.

1.4M visits/mo1.1K saves
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Kling AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Kling AI turns text or images into cinematic AI video, plus image and sound generation, for creators and studios.

3.0M visits/mo91K saves
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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
Pricing
Free: $0/mo (30 credits/month, up to 1GB per file)
Basic: $9/mo (750 credits/month, up to 10GB per file)
Pro: $29/mo (5000 credits/month)
Premium: $59/mo (7500 credits/month)

No public 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)
Core features
  • Target file-size or advanced bitrate compression settings
  • Support for 40+ video formats
  • Cloud-based processing with no software install
  • Automatic file deletion after processing
  • Companion tools: crop, trim, video-to-MP3, video-to-text
  • Credit-based monthly usage tiers
  • AI video generation from text and images
  • AI image generation
  • Reference-based multimodal creation
  • Single creative studio
  • 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
Use cases
  • Shrinking video files to fit email attachment limits
  • Compressing videos to meet Discord's upload size limit
  • Reducing storage costs for large video libraries
  • Preparing 4K footage for faster social media uploads
  • Short-form and social video creation
  • Storyboarding and previz
  • Advertising and brand clips
  • Animating still images
  • 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
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