Pika AI Video Generator: Features, Pricing & Models
Pika AI, from Pika Labs at pika.art, is now an all-in-one creative platform that runs Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 and its own Pika 2.5 behind a set of video, image and sound apps. Want those same video models without a Pika account? The ToonBee AI video generator below runs Seedance 2.5, H3 and Wan 3.0, plus Kling, PixVerse and Vidu: 8 video models in one box, with the price shown before you generate.
- 8 video models, one box
- Seedance 2.5 clips up to 30s
- Text or image to video, with sound
- Price shown before you generate
This page is an independent guide written by ToonBee AI. The generator below is ToonBee AI’s own video generator, not Pika. ToonBee AI is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pika Labs, and Pika is a trademark of its owner.
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Clips from the models Pika and ToonBee AI share, and more
Sample clips from the model makers and API platforms, made on the same models you can pick in the box above. Hover to play, turn the sound on, open the prompt where there is one, and send it to the box with its model.
One flower, many languages
A single Seedance 2.5 take hands a flower from city to city, each person speaking their own language with the sound made in the same pass.
A 30-second rooftop music video
Four performers dance in formation on a skyscraper roof in one 30-second Seedance 2.5 generation, from a close-up of an eye to a circling drone shot.
Two lines of dialogue on H3
A man wakes in a cryo chamber and asks what year it is: MiniMax H3 Max with lip sync and the room sound.
Show the prompt
Exactly 5 seconds. Inside a bright sterile laboratory, a cryogenic chamber opens and cold vapor spills across the floor. A confused man slowly sits up. A scientist steps forward and says, “Welcome back.” The man asks, “What year is it?” The scientist hesitates as the camera gently pulls backward. Photorealistic Hollywood science-fiction drama, soft white daylight, realistic vapor, restrained acting, accurate lip sync, no extreme close-up.
Anime sword fight from a still
An H3 Max take that starts from a picture and turns it into a moonlit anime duel with trailing sparks.
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A serene woman warrior with a long silver-white braid and pale grey eyes, wearing flowing translucent white robes layered over slim silver armor. She stands alone in the mirror-still flooded courtyard of an abandoned mountain shrine at night. Fine misting rain, moonlight breaking through cloud, faint blue spirit-lights drifting in the air, her reflection perfect in the water. She holds a single crystalline naginata that glows soft white from within. Fluid sword combat, graceful sweeping camera movements, dramatic close-ups, luminous sparks trailing each strike, petals and mist displaced by the blade, elegant choreography, cinematic lighting, anime movie quality, highly detailed backgrounds, ultra smooth motion, ethereal atmosphere, speed lines, energy waves, volumetric moonlight, masterpiece anime action sequence, breathtaking final strike Stillness — She stands motionless, head lowered, rain beading on her shoulders. Slow push-in. Her eyes snap open, violet light flaring. Volumetric light, ultra detailed. The draw — Iaido draw in one fluid motion; the crystal blade sings and throws a ring of prismatic light outward. Low-angle tracking shot, slow motion into normal speed. Opening rush — She explodes forward, feet skimming the wet ground, spraying water in twin arcs. Fast dolly chase behind her, heavy speed lines. First exchange — Rapid three-strike combo against an unseen force; sparks burst off the blade, crystal trees shatter behind her. Whip-pan, handheld shake. Aerial spiral — She kicks off a glass trunk, spins midair, and slashes downward. Orbital camera rotating around her, shards suspended in the air.
Wild horses at sunset
A 15-second Wan 3.0 shot that opens on a ladybird and pulls back to a herd running into the sun.
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Half an hour before sunset, the sky over the vast grassland gradually turned orange and purple. The grass swayed directionally with the actual wind speed (about level 3). The camera was positioned at a low position (about 20 cm off the ground), using a telephoto lens (200mm) to compress the space. The first five seconds begin with a close-up of a foxtail grass, its stem covered in fine hairs and adhering pollen grains. A ladybug crawls on it, its legs gripping the plant's intricate surface. In the background, distant mountains are hazy, clouds move slowly, and the light subtly shifts every second, lengthening the shadows of the grass blades. The next five seconds see the camera pan rapidly about 90 degrees, revealing a herd of wild horses (about five) trotting into the frame from the left. Their muscles undulate rhythmically with each stride, their manes flying as they run, each hair clearly defined. As their hooves trample the grass, they kick up dirt and grass clippings, creating Tyndall effect beams of dust in the air. Their breath condenses into white mist in the cool air. A foal follows its mother, its gait slightly unsteady, its ears darting to catch the wind. The final five seconds see the herd accelerate rapidly, the sense of speed conveyed through the rapid blurring of the foreground grass and the rapid rhythm of the hooves. The camera pulls back at approximately one meter per second. (out), gradually bringing the entire herd of horses into the frame, they rush toward the setting sun on the horizon. The backlight turns the horses into black silhouettes with gilded edges, their manes and tails fluttering in the wind. In the last two seconds, the sun completely sinks into the ridgeline, the light dims sharply, and the image fades into a deep purple-gray, leaving only a few distant neighs of horses.
A western standoff
Ten seconds of Wan 3.0: two cowboys, a dusty street and the moment before the draw.
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A desolate town at dusk, its main street shrouded in dust. Two cowboy figures stand facing each other at opposite ends of the street, about 50 meters apart. The shot is wide-angle and low-angle, emphasizing the vastness of the sky and the emptiness of the ground. The wind whips up dry grass and dust, creating swirling whirlwinds. A close-up shows one of the cowboys' hands hovering above his holster, his fingers trembling slightly. The setting sun casts long shadows of them onto the wooden buildings. Warm golden tones, backlit silhouettes, classic widescreen composition—the tension is frozen in the final second before the gun is drawn.
Talking on a train
A handheld Kling 3.0 close-up with the woman’s voice and the carriage sound — a model Pika does not list.
Show the prompt
Close-up of a woman talking on a train, natural window light, handheld camera feel, shallow depth of field
A cat at the window
PixVerse V6 tracks a cat watching a bird outside, ears twitching, tail swishing.
Show the prompt
The cat's ears twitch as it tracks a bird outside the window. It shifts its weight forward, pressing one paw against the glass. Sunlight catches the dust motes drifting through the curtains. The cat's tail swishes slowly as it tilts its head, then suddenly turns back toward the room as if called.
Astronaut in the fog
A fashion-photo look on Vidu Q3: pale blue and amber light around a lone walking figure.
Show the prompt
In an ultra-realistic fashion photography style featuring light blue and pale amber tones, an astronaut in a spacesuit walks through the fog.
What is Pika AI?
Pika AI, made by Pika Labs and found at pika.art, began as a text-to-video generator built on its own models, and later added effects such as Pikaffects and Pikaframes. People search for it as Pika AI, Pika Labs and Pika Art.
On September 17, 2026 Pika relaunched as an AI creative platform: video, image and sound in one place, with “the world’s leading gen media models underneath, and focused creative apps on top”, in its own words. You pick an app for the job — Video Studio, Swap Anything, Pikaframes, Product Shot, Pika Soundtrack and more than twenty others — and it either picks the model for you or lets you choose one.
Its video models include Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash and Pika’s own Pika 2.5 and Pikaframes; its image models include GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Seedream and Grok Imagine; and it has its own music, speech and sound-effect models. Since October 2026 it also runs inside ChatGPT, and it has an MCP server and an iPhone app.
Who uses Pika AI
- Ad creatives and marketers making product shots, product ads and UGC-style clips.
- Video editors who want to extend, regrade, relight or swap things in footage they already have.
- Filmmakers and social creators putting together short multi-shot scenes with sound.
- Developers, through Pika’s API, MCP server and ChatGPT plugin.
Key features of the Pika AI video generator
What Pika says its platform does, from pika.art. Pika is a separate product from ToonBee AI.
Video Studio
Short clips or multi-shot videos up to 30 seconds with sound, with up to 50 characters, products, settings and styles attached and called by name in the prompt.
Pika 2.5 and Pikaframes
Pika’s own video model, and Pikaframes, which animates the motion between two to five still images in the order you set.
Swap Anything and Motion Transfer
Change the subject, outfit or setting in an existing clip from references, or make a character in a photo follow the motion of another video.
Extend, regrade and relight
Extend Video adds what happens before or after a clip; Color Grade, Relight Media and Camera Director change the look, the light or the camera angle.
Image and sound apps
Image Studio, Edit Image, Product Shot and Character Studio for stills; Pika Soundtrack, music, speech and sound-effect apps for audio.
MCP, ChatGPT and API
Pika’s apps inside ChatGPT, an MCP server for AI assistants, and the Pika API Club with access to more than 100 models.
Pika AI pricing
Pika sells monthly credits in four public plans, plus an Enterprise plan, and one-time credit packs. Every plan includes every model and downloads without a watermark; the free plan has no monthly credits and no commercial licence.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Credits a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Packs only |
| Starter | $10 | $8 | 900 |
| Creator | $35 | $28 | 3,150 |
| Fancy | from $95 | from $76 | from 8,550 |
From pika.art/pricing on October 25, 2026. Fancy runs from $95 to $880 a month for more credits. Credit packs start at $25 for 1,500 credits and work on pika.art and its MCP server, not its API or iPhone app. Prices change, so check its site before you buy.
Pika AI review: strengths and limits
A fair summary from what Pika publishes about itself. We build ToonBee AI, a competing video generator, so weigh it accordingly.
Strengths
- Many models and more than 25 apps behind one login and one credit balance.
- Editing tools for footage you already have: swap, extend, regrade, relight, new camera angles.
- Its own Pika 2.5 and Pikaframes, plus music, speech and sound-effect models.
- Low entry price: a $10 Starter plan, every model on every plan, no watermark even when free.
- Works in ChatGPT, through an MCP server and on iPhone.
Things to check first
- The free plan has no monthly credits and no commercial licence; you buy a pack or a plan to make anything you can use for work.
- Credit packs cannot be spent through the API, the iPhone app or the old Pika site.
- With so many apps, it takes a while to learn which one does the job you have in mind.
- Pika is built around clips of up to 30 seconds; a narrated story of several minutes means stitching scenes yourself.
Pika AI vs ToonBee AI
Both run several of today’s leading video models in the browser. Pika adds editing apps and its own models; ToonBee AI adds narrated story videos several minutes long.
| Pika AI | ToonBee AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Shared video models | Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 | Seedance 2.5, H3 Max and H3 Max Turbo, Wan 3.0 |
| Other video models | Pika 2.5, Pikaframes, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash | Kling 3.0, PixVerse, Vidu Q3, ToonBee 1.0 |
| Image models | GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Seedream, Grok Imagine | Nano Banana 2 and Pro, GPT Image 2 |
| Long videos | Clips and multi-shot videos up to 30 seconds | Narrated story videos up to 15 minutes, written and storyboarded for you |
| Editing footage you have | Swap Anything, Motion Transfer, Extend Video, Color Grade, Relight | Video to cartoon, and a dance generator that follows a motion video |
| Sound | Sound in the video models, plus music, speech and sound-effect apps | Sound in the video models; story narration in 17 languages; no music or sound-effect apps |
| Free to start | Free account, packs only, no commercial licence | Free account with a small gift of credits; writing story scripts is free |
| How you pay | Monthly plans from $10, or credit packs from $25 | Monthly plans from $39, or one-time credit packs from $49 |
| Where it runs | Web, iPhone app, ChatGPT, MCP, API | Web, on a computer or a phone browser |
Pika details are from pika.art, checked on October 25, 2026. ToonBee AI is a separate product and does not use Pika.
The same video models, here
Every video model you can pick in the box above, read from the generator’s own tables, and whether pika.art listed it too. Credits are for a 5-second clip, or the model’s shortest if that is longer, at the smallest size; the box starts on H3 Max Turbo.
| Model | On Pika | Max size | Length | Sound | Credits from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.5 | 1080p | 5–30s | 238 | ||
| H3 Max | 1080p | 5–15s | 125 | ||
| H3 Max Turbo | 1080p | 5–15s | 63 | ||
| Wan 3.0 | 1080p | 4–30s | 125 | ||
| Kling 3.0 | 1080p | 4–15s | 250 | ||
| PixVerse V6 | 1080p | 4–15s | 113 | ||
| Vidu Q3 | 1080p | 4–15s | 175 | ||
| ToonBee 1.0 | 720p | 15s and up | 1,341 |
Pika also lists Pika 2.5, Pikaframes and Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which are not available on ToonBee AI.
Pika AI or ToonBee AI?
Where we think each one fits best.
Pika AI fits if you need
- To edit footage you already have: swap a subject, extend a clip, regrade or relight it.
- Pika’s own Pika 2.5, Pikaframes or Pikaffects.
- Music, speech or sound effects made in the same place.
- To work inside ChatGPT, through MCP, or on iPhone.
ToonBee AI fits if you want
- Seedance 2.5, H3 and Wan 3.0 next to Kling, PixVerse and Vidu in one box.
- A narrated story video of up to 15 minutes from one idea, with the same characters in every scene.
- To see the credit cost before you generate, and get credits back automatically when a generation fails.
- Cartoon and anime looks, from photo to cartoon to a dance that follows a motion video.
How to make an AI video with ToonBee AI
- 1
Write a prompt or add an image
Describe the scene, the action, the camera and the sound, and put spoken lines in quotes. Add an image to start from it, or pick a sample above to load its prompt.
- 2
Pick the model, size and length
The box starts on H3 Max Turbo, the cheapest first take. Switch to Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0, Kling or another model; the credit cost updates as you change anything.
- 3
Generate and download
Press Generate video. The clip lands in your history with its sound and downloads as an MP4 with no watermark.
Is Pika AI free? What ToonBee AI costs
Pika’s free plan lets you open every app and model, but it has no monthly credits: you generate with a credit pack or a paid plan, and commercial use needs a paid plan.
On ToonBee AI the account is free and generating uses credits, priced per clip and shown before you press. The cheapest take, 5 seconds on H3 Max Turbo, is 63 credits; Seedance 2.5 and 1080p cost more.
Plans start at $39 a month for 5,000 credits, and a one-time pack is $49 for 4,000 credits that never expire. Every plan covers commercial use and downloads with no watermark.
Good to know about ToonBee AI
- ToonBee AI does not have Pika 2.5, Pikaframes, Pikaffects, Swap Anything, Extend Video or Pika’s music, speech and sound apps.
- There is no ToonBee AI app, ChatGPT plugin or MCP server; it runs in the browser.
- Each model keeps its own lengths, sizes and content filter; a refused generation gives its credits back.
- ToonBee AI and Pika are separate products: accounts, projects and credits are not shared.
Pika AI FAQ
What is Pika AI?
Pika AI, also called Pika Labs or Pika Art after its website pika.art, is an AI creative platform for video, image and sound. Since its relaunch on September 17, 2026 it runs models such as Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 and its own Pika 2.5 behind more than 25 creative apps.
Is the generator on this page Pika?
No. The generator on this page is ToonBee AI’s own video generator. ToonBee AI does not run Pika or any Pika model, is not affiliated with Pika Labs, and accounts and credits are not shared between the two. Pika’s official site is pika.art.
Is Pika AI free to use?
Pika has a free plan with every model and no watermark, but it comes with no monthly credits: you buy a credit pack or a plan to generate, and the free plan has no commercial licence. On ToonBee AI the account is free and the cheapest clip on H3 Max Turbo is 63 credits; credit packs start at $49.
How much does Pika cost?
Its pricing page lists Starter at $10 a month for 900 credits, Creator at $35 for 3,150 and Fancy from $95 for 8,550 credits, 20% less billed yearly, plus credit packs from $25 for 1,500 credits. Prices change, so check pika.art for the current offer.
Is Pika AI worth it?
It depends on the job. Pika is strong if you want many models and editing apps — swapping, extending and regrading footage — plus music and sound in one place. If you mainly want to generate clips on Seedance 2.5, H3 or Wan 3.0, or make narrated story videos several minutes long, ToonBee AI covers that too.
Which models does Pika AI use?
On pika.art the video models include Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Pika 2.5 and Pikaframes; the image models include GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Seedream and Grok Imagine. ToonBee AI has Seedance 2.5, H3 Max, Wan 3.0, Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 2, plus Kling 3.0, PixVerse and Vidu, but not Pika 2.5 or Pikaframes.
How long can a Pika AI video be?
Pika’s Video Studio makes clips and multi-shot videos of up to 30 seconds, and Extend Video can lengthen a clip. On ToonBee AI a Seedance 2.5 clip runs up to 30 seconds, and the story video generator makes narrated videos of up to 15 minutes.
Is there a Pika AI app?
Pika has an iPhone app, and it runs inside ChatGPT and through an MCP server. Several apps on Google Play use the Pika name but are not from Pika Labs. ToonBee AI has no app: it runs in the browser on a computer or a phone.
What is a good Pika AI alternative?
If you want Seedance 2.5, H3 and Wan 3.0 next to Kling, PixVerse and Vidu, the cost shown before every clip, and story videos of up to 15 minutes with a narrator, ToonBee AI is built for that. If you need Pika’s editing apps, its own Pika 2.5 model or music and sound in one place, Pika fits better.
Can I use Pika AI videos commercially?
On Pika, the paid plans include a commercial licence and the free plan does not. Videos you make on ToonBee AI can be used commercially on every plan and download with no watermark.
Can I use a Pika prompt in ToonBee AI?
Yes. Paste the prompt into the box at the top of this page, pick the same model if it is one ToonBee AI has — Seedance 2.5, H3 or Wan 3.0 — and set the length and shape. Settings that only exist in a Pika app, such as Pikaframes keyframes, do not carry over.
Make a video on the models Pika runs
Type a prompt or add an image, pick Seedance 2.5, H3 or Wan 3.0, and see the price before you generate.
Make a videoOutils associés
D’autres pages qui ouvrent le même studio, préparé pour un autre type de vidéo.
- Modèles d'IATous les modèles vidéo et image, avec durées et prix.
- Générateur vidéo Dola AIDes vidéos Seedance façon Dola, en ligne et sans filigrane.
- Générateur de vidéos MiniMax H3Des vidéos MiniMax H3 avec le son, sur H3 Max dans le navigateur.
- Générateur vidéo Wan AIDes vidéos Wan 3.0 jusqu’à 30 secondes, en 1080p avec le son.
- Générateur d’animation IADes clips animés courts, ou une image fixe qui prend vie.
ToonBee AI is an independent video generator. It is not Pika (pika.art) and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pika Labs. Pika, Pika Labs and Pikaframes are trademarks of their owner; model names belong to their makers.