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Seedance 2.0
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Multi-modal AI video generator that lets users reference images, video, and audio together for consistent, controllable video creation.
2.1M visits/mo
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Magic Hour
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All-in-one AI studio for generating and editing video, images, and audio, with face swap, lip sync, and an API.
1.6M visits/mo
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Wan AI
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Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.
3.1M visits/mo49K saves
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Pika 2.2
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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
No public pricing
Creator: $15/mo ($10/mo billed annually, 120k credits/yr)
Pro: $39/mo ($25/mo billed annually, 300k credits/yr)
Free trial available
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)
Free: $0
Premium (Pay as you go): Credit-based
Enterprise: Contact for pricing
Core features
- ✦Multi-modal input combining images, video, audio, and text
- ✦Reference-based generation for motion, camera moves, and characters
- ✦Consistency controls for faces, clothing, and visual style across shots
- ✦Video extension, merging, and segment editing
- ✦Built-in context-aware audio and music generation
- ✦Credit-based pricing tied to resolution and duration
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Face swap across video, photos, and GIFs
- ✦Lip sync and talking-photo tools
- ✦AI image generation and editing
- ✦Upscaling and animation
- ✦REST API and SDKs
- ✦Text-to-video generation
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Text-to-image and image editing
- ✦Open-source model releases for developers
- ✦Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
- ✦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
- ✦Advanced multi-modal AI content generation (images, videos, speech)
- ✦Fast content generation in seconds
- ✦High-quality output with high resolution and sharp details
- ✦Unlimited creativity with various styles
- ✦Multi-format export for all platforms
- ✦Easy collaboration on projects
Use cases
- →Advertisers replicating proven ad templates with new products
- →Educators creating animated lesson and tutorial videos
- →Social media creators replicating trending video formats
- →Filmmakers previsualizing camera movements and scenes
- →Produce social and ad videos
- →Localize or dub clips with lip sync
- →Generate marketing images
- →Automate video creation via API
- →Content creators generating short AI video clips
- →Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
- →Marketers producing quick visual content
- →Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
- →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
- →Creating AI-generated images for marketing campaigns
- →Producing AI-generated videos for social media content
- →Generating AI speech and dialogue for voiceovers or podcasts
- →Transforming text ideas into visual and audio content quickly
- →Collaborating on creative projects with AI assistance
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