9 Best AI Video Generators of 2026

Flow is where Google puts its video models in front of creators. It runs Veo 3.1, which generates video with native audio, and Gemini Omni, which creates and edits video from any reference. You can start from text, from first and last frames, or from a set of ingredient images, then use video-to-video editing and Scenebuilder to assemble scenes, with an agent that takes instructions in plain language. Anyone with a Google account gets 50 credits a day, access to Omni 1.2 Flash clips of up to 10 seconds and Veo 3.1 Lite. Google AI Plus at $7.99 a month adds 200 monthly credits, clips of 11 to 15 seconds, video extension and upscaling to 1080p. Pro at $19.99 adds 1,000 credits, credit top-ups, 5 TB of storage and other AI Pro benefits. The main limits are the credit counts per plan and the fact that 4K upscaling waits until the Ultra tier.

Runway builds its own video models and wraps them in a full creative workspace. Its Gen-4.5 model handles text to video and image to video, accepts detailed camera choreography and event timing in a single prompt, and produces 720p clips of 2 to 10 seconds at 24 or 25 frames per second. It costs 12 credits per second, so the Standard plan's 625 monthly credits cover 52 seconds of Gen-4.5, or more if you use the cheaper Gen-4 Turbo. The same balance also runs Aleph 2.0, Kling 4.0 and Seedance 2.0 Pro, which makes it easy to compare models on one shot. Standard costs $12 a month billed annually or $15 monthly and includes 4K upscaling, no watermarks and five parallel generations. Pro at $28 annually adds a custom voice clone, MCP access and unlimited 4K upscaling. Heavy users should note that only the Max plan rolls credits over, and ProRes export is limited to Max and Enterprise.

Kling is a dedicated video generator whose own models are also resold by Runway, Luma, Pika and Higgsfield. Going to the source gives you the newest features first. Kling 4.0 supports native 30-second generation, Omni reference and multiple keyframes, and Kling 3.0 adds synchronized audio with intelligent storyboarding. Paid plans include 1080p and 4K generation, unlimited task queues, faster generation, watermark removal and commercial use. Standard costs $8.80 a month after a first month at $6.99 and includes 660 credits, priced at about $1.06 per 100 credits. Pro at $32.56 a month after its first month raises that to 3,000 credits. Developers can buy API packages starting at $500 for 3,250 units, with Kling 4.0 billed at 1.0 unit per second at 720p and 1.5 units at 1080p. The weak points are the lack of a listed free plan and a plans page built around first-month discounts, so compare the regular monthly price.

Pika bundles its own video models with many outside ones. Pika 2.5 is the cheap workhorse at 20 credits for a 5-second 720p clip, and Pika H3 Flex, post-trained on MiniMax H3, generates synchronized video and stereo audio of up to 15 seconds with up to 12 references. Video Studio strings shots into multi-shot videos of up to 30 seconds, and apps such as Extend Video, Motion Transfer, Swap Anything and Dynamic Captions handle common social edits. The same credits run Kling 4.0, Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 and Gemini Omni. Starter costs $10 a month, or $8 billed annually, for 600 credits with a commercial license and no watermark. Creator at $35 adds 2,600 credits and daily free H3 Flex generations. The free account only works with purchased credit packs and excludes commercial use, so plan on Starter for anything you publish for money.

Vidu focuses on consistent characters and smooth motion, including 2D animation. Its reference to video mode keeps people, objects and scenes consistent across several input images, alongside standard text and image to video. The Q4 model costs 2 credits per second at 540p, which makes Vidu one of the cheaper ways to produce rough cuts. Paid plans support 3 to 16 second generations, batches of up to 4 videos, H.265 Pro and H.264 Pro encoding, and commercial use without watermarks. Standard costs $8.25 a month billed yearly at $99, or $10 monthly, and includes 800 credits. Premium at $35.42 a month yearly adds 3,500 credits, an ultra-fast channel and an off-peak quota of 20 videos a day. The free plan lets you try Q4 with 10 references a month. Note that subscription credits are valid for 30 days, and Vidu states it cannot provide refunds.

Higgsfield is less a single model than a set of creator workflows. Shorts Studio offers hundreds of viral presets you can recreate with your own character, voice and style, Genjutsu takes the motion from one video and recasts it with new characters, places or products, and Cinema Studio and Ads Studio handle cinematic scenes and product ads. Underneath, it runs Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Grok Video, Nano Banana Pro and other models on one credit balance, with Kling 3.0 at 720p costing about 7 credits per 5 seconds. Starter costs $19 a month billed annually for 270 credits, roughly 15 Seedance 2.0 Fast videos. Plus at $47 a month yearly gives 1,200 credits and 7 days of unlimited use on selected models. The fine print matters here: unlimited generations apply only on the website, unlimited use may be slowed at busy times, and prices are shown before VAT.

Luma is built around a creative agent that takes a brief and produces images and video across many models. Its own Ray3.2 model offers frame-by-frame control, performance and motion transfer, product swaps and relighting, and it can output SDR, HDR or HDR with EXR files for grading. Ray3.2 costs 100 credits per 5 seconds at 720p and 400 at 1080p, with 10-second generations available. The same balance covers Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0, Veo 3.1, MiniMax H3 and Luma's Uni image model. Plus costs $30 a month or $300 billed yearly and includes 10,000 credits, guest editing and commercial use. Pro at $90 quadruples both credits and agent usage. Teams get connectors to Figma, Frame.io and Google Ads Console. The trade-off is price: Luma has the highest entry plan here and no listed free tier, so it suits teams with real production budgets more than casual creators.

Hailuo is MiniMax's own app for its video models, and it now runs MiniMax H3, the model that Pika, Luma and others also offer inside their credit plans. The create screen accepts up to 12 reference images through Omni Reference, outputs up to 2K and offers wide aspect ratios such as 21:9. Hailuo Agent guides you through a project, and a gallery of trending templates covers effects such as pet, baby and style-switch clips. Image and audio tools sit in the same account, and new users receive free credits after signing up. Paid plans start from $9.99 a month. The weakness is documentation: the public site shows the starting price but not a full plan table, credit counts or a stated maximum clip length on the pages we reviewed, so it is harder to work out a price per second than with Runway, Pika or Vidu. Try the free credits before paying.

Midjourney's video feature starts from a picture rather than a script. Any image in your gallery, or one you upload, becomes the first frame, and Midjourney turns it into a 5-second clip with an optional prompt, low or high motion, and loop or end-frame settings. You can extend a clip 4 seconds at a time, up to 4 times, for a maximum of 21 seconds. Each prompt makes 4 videos by default, and a batch of 4 SD videos uses 8 minutes of GPU time, or 26 minutes in HD. Basic costs $10 a month, or $8 billed annually, and includes 3.3 hours of Fast GPU time with SD video only. Standard at $30 adds HD video, and Pro at $60 adds unlimited Relax Mode video and Stealth Mode. It is the narrowest tool here: every clip starts from an image, and GPU minutes go quickly on HD clips.