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Pika

Name: Pika
Author: Pika Labs

$8/mofree tier available

Text-to-video generation

Pika is an AI-powered video generation platform that transforms text prompts, images, and video clips into high-quality short-form videos in seconds to minutes. It features text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video capabilities alongside specialized creative effects like Pikaffects (stylistic effects: melt, explode, inflate), Pikaswaps (object replacement), Pikadditions (insert objects), Pikaframes (keyframe interpolation), and Pikaformance (audio-driven lip-sync animation). The platform emphasizes fast rendering (30-90 seconds), stylized motion over photorealism, and is optimized for social media content creation. Pika 2.5 is the latest model, offering improved physics understanding and audio synchronization.

Who it's for

creators

Pricing · freemium

checked Jul 22, 2026

Plan	Price	Includes
Free (Basic)	$0 /mo	80 monthly credits · Access to Pika 1.5 model · Creative toolset and effects · Watermark on downloads · No commercial usage rights
Standard	$8 /mo	700 monthly credits (annual billing) · Access to Pika 1.5, 2.1, 2.2 models · Pikaffections and Pikaswaps included · Watermark-free downloads · Commercial usage rights
Pro	$28 /mo	2,300 monthly credits (annual billing) · Full model access including Turbo and Pro · All Pika creative tools unlocked · Faster video generation · Watermark-free downloads · Commercial usage rights
Fancy	$76 /mo	6,000 monthly credits (annual billing) · Premium access to all models · Maximum feature availability · Fastest generation speeds · Watermark-free downloads · Commercial usage rights

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Use it for

— Create viral-style short-form social media clips
— Generate product teasers and marketing content
— Animate still images into dynamic videos
— Produce music visualizations and concept shots
— Build expressive talking head videos with Pikaformance
— Transform video clips with special effects (melt, explode, swap objects)
— Create animated explainer content for education
— Produce stylized background elements and textures
— Generate quick narrative concept footage for pitching

Get the most out of it

01Draft short clips first at lower resolutions to conserve credits before committing to longer or higher-resolution exports
02Leverage Pikaformance for quick talking-head videos — upload a portrait, add audio, and let AI sync expressions automatically
03Use Pikaffects and Pikaswaps to add unique stylized transformations that differentiate your content from competitors' generic AI videos
04Combine multiple tools in a single project (keyframing with Pikaframes, object insertion with Pikadditions, effects with Pikatwists) to create polished multi-layered content
05Experiment with the free tier's 80 monthly credits to test output quality and find prompts that work best before upgrading to paid plans

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