Top 11 AI Video Generation Tools: Review and Feature Comparison

After OpenAI's successful debut in 2022, AI tools rapidly entered everyday life. 

When we talk about text generation, ChatGPT comes to mind. When it comes to image generation, we think of Midjourney. Then there are Gemini, DALL-E, Claude, Stable Diffusion, and many other leading models in the field.

But what comes to mind when it comes to video generation? Or at least, what should come to mind? That’s exactly what we’ll discuss in this article.

1. Kling

Kling is a Chinese AI video generation tool developed by Kuaishou in 2024.

It is one of the best video generation AI tools on the market, ideal for marketers, bloggers, and large teams who need to produce high-quality videos quickly.

Kling's standout feature is its balanced blend of cinematic aesthetics and flexible settings—you can get hyper-realistic or stylized clips.

The model processes both text prompts and static images, turning them into dynamic, high-quality videos—up to 10 seconds long, FullHD resolution (1080p), and 30 FPS. Naturally, the best features are available only on paid plans.

The service supports complex camera behavior for expressive angles: panning, tilting, and zooming. You can also set keyframes (start and end) to generate video in between them. There's also an "extension" function to prolong an already generated video up to 3 minutes.

Additionally, the model supports lip-syncing—synchronizing mouth movement with speech.

The interface is intuitive, though slightly overloaded. It’s easy to get the hang of but can occasionally be confusing.

Note: On the free plan, Kling allows about 10x more generations per month than the paid plan. However, those videos are shorter and lower quality. The free quota is added on top of the paid quota.

2. Hailuo AI

Hailuo AI is a Chinese AI video generator developed by MiniMax in 2024.

It offers a simple and flexible toolkit for creating content on the go, from marketing clips to social media stories.

In just minutes, it can turn a text or static image into a high-quality, albeit short, video, significantly cutting down the time and resources needed for traditional video production.

Hailuo AI focuses on quickly generating short videos (up to 6 seconds at 25 FPS) based on text descriptions or static images. The resolution maxes out at 720p.

While these limitations are acceptable for fast marketing tasks, they can be a dealbreaker for serious projects.

You can combine text and image inputs for more control over the video story.

In addition to full camera control (angle, zoom, pan), Hailuo AI reduces random motion noise and maintains character appearance across scenes.

The interface is both simple and flexible, allowing cinematic effects without a steep learning curve. It also offers an API for integration into external apps.

Ideal for quick short-form videos like animated teasers and promo clips. For longer, more complex videos, you’ll need something else.

Note: There’s also progressive pricing based on generation volume. From $1 for 70 credits, enough for a couple of generations.

3. Fliki

Fliki is an American AI video generator created by Fliki in 2021.

It’s an all-in-one platform combining various AI modules for generating presentations, audio, and video.

Fliki specializes in automatically turning any text format (article, script, website URL, PDF/PPT) into a video with realistic voiceovers (2,000+ voices, 100+ dialects) and animated avatars (70+ characters).

You can even clone your voice and dub videos in 80+ languages.

Fliki also gives access to millions of stock images, video clips, stickers, and music for rapid video creation.

Unlike services that render each frame from scratch, Fliki assembles clips, slideshows, presets, and transitions into a cohesive video. Final length can be up to 30 minutes.

Runs in-browser with no downloads needed. Just enter your text, select a voice, add media, and you’ll get a professional video with voiceover and subtitles in minutes.

Its broad feature set in a simple package makes it suitable for small teams and large enterprises alike. Paired with classic editing tools, Fliki’s potential is immense.

Paid plans also unlock thousands of voices and dialects, millions of premium images, videos, sounds, and access to Fliki’s API.

4. Dream Machine

Dream Machine is an American AI video generator created by Luma AI in 2024.

It specializes in generating short videos from text prompts or static images, making it easy to produce dynamic clips with natural movement and cinematic composition—no editing expertise needed.

Users can describe or show what they want, and Dream Machine generates fluid, natural videos.

Default output is 5–10 seconds at 1080p and 24 FPS. You can adjust aspect ratio, animation style, motion intensity, and transition smoothness.

Dream Machine supports keyframe-based generation (start and end image), has an intuitive minimalist interface, and offers an API for integration.

It’s not suitable for long, complex videos. But for fast marketing and ad content, it’s a top pick.

5. Runway

Runway is an American AI video platform developed by Runway AI in 2018.

It's a full-fledged cloud platform for generating and storing high-quality cinematic media.

Runway is both powerful and easy to use. It excels at quickly creating short clips, experimenting with visual styles, and automating parts of the creative process.

It can generate videos with outstanding photorealism and character motion consistency. It's one of the most advanced commercial tools for video generation.

You can create clips from text or images, restyle existing footage, or edit content.

By default, videos are 720p, 24 FPS, and 5 or 10 seconds long. However, you can upscale to 4K and extend to 40 seconds.

Runway offers several models: Gen-2, Gen-3 Alpha, Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, Gen-4. The latest (Gen-4) allows for deep control over generation: aspect ratio, camera behavior, style prompts, and more.

Note: Paid plans include up to 100 GB of cloud storage, while free users get only 5 GB.

6. PixVerse

PixVerse is a Chinese AI video generation model developed by AISphere in 2023. Thanks to a wide range of tools, PixVerse can transform text descriptions, images, and video clips into short but vivid videos — from anime and comics to 3D animation and hyperrealism.

PixVerse wraps numerous generation parameters in an extremely user-friendly interface: source photos and videos, aspect ratio, camera movement, styling, transitions, sound effects, voiceover, and more.

The output videos are 5 to 8 seconds long, with resolutions up to 1080p at 20 frames per second. Naturally, videos can be upscaled and extended.

You can also upload an already finished video and additionally stylize it using the neural network — add visual effects, voiceover, or extend the duration.

As expected in such a powerful service, an API is also available—any external app can perform automatic video generation.

On the PixVerse homepage, you’ll find numerous examples of generated videos along with their original prompts. Anyone can use them as a base for their own projects or simply see the model’s capabilities in action.

7. Genmo

Genmo is another AI model for video, launched in 2022.

In essence, Genmo is the simplest possible service for turning text descriptions into short video clips with minimal configuration options. As simple as you can imagine—which is both good and bad.

On one hand, Genmo’s entry barrier is extremely low—even someone with no experience can create a video. On the other hand, the service is hardly suitable for complex projects due to the lack of control over generation.

The neural network is based on the open-source Mochi model and has many limitations: it only uses text descriptions, and video resolution is capped at 480p with a fixed duration of 5 seconds at 30 fps.

Although generated videos contain visual artifacts (flickering or shifting geometry and colors) that reveal the use of AI, they still look coherent and interesting — good enough for visualizing ideas and concepts.

The user interface is extremely minimalistic—a prompt input field on the homepage followed by the best generations from the past day with their corresponding prompts.

It's important to understand that AI models that don't use images or video as input require more specificity in prompts—clear descriptions of visuals, environments, and details.

8. Sora

Sora is a neural network created by OpenAI in 2024.

Based on detailed text descriptions, Sora can generate images and videos with the highest level of detail. It’s a model whose output can easily be mistaken for real photos or videos.

It’s significant that Sora was developed by OpenAI, a global leader in generative AI and the company behind ChatGPT and DALL·E.

Sora’s interface follows the design system used across OpenAI products—sleek black theme and minimal elements. A small sidebar is on the left, a grid of popular user-generated content in the center, and a prompt field with configuration options at the bottom.

Sora-generated videos have photo-realistic detail, whether hyperrealistic or animated, almost nothing gives away the AI origin. The quality and imagination in the visuals are astounding.

The videos can be up to 20 seconds long, 1080p resolution, and 30 fps—significantly more than most competitors.

Sora unifies all video configuration into the prompt itself—the real power of the model lies in the quality of your description. The better the prompt, the better the result.

Thus, generating video with Sora becomes a constant game of tweaking prompts, words, and phrasing.

Sora can definitely be considered one of the most advanced AI models for generating images and video.

The free plan in Sora does not allow video generation at all—only image generation, limited to 3 per day.

9. Pika

Pika is another AI-powered video creation service, launched in 2023.

The platform is easy to use and designed for everyday users who are not experts in video editing or neural networks.

Its primary use case is modifying existing video footage: adding transitions, virtual characters, changing a person’s appearance, and more. Still, Pika can also generate videos from scratch.

Pika’s features are standard for AI video services: generation from text, from images, or between two frames (start and end).

Maximum resolution is 1080p. Frame rate is 24 fps. Video duration is up to 10 seconds. Styles can vary—from cartoony to cinematic.

In short, Pika is a simple and convenient tool for quickly creating videos from text or images without powerful hardware. It’s especially useful for prototyping, social media, marketing, and advertising.

Pika’s free plan has generation limits—you can create videos, but in small quantities.

The standard paid plan increases your generation limits and unlocks newer model versions, but does not remove watermarks.

The professional plan removes all limitations, provides access to advanced tools, speeds up generation, and removes watermarks from final videos.

10. Veo

Veo is a video generation model developed in 2024 by DeepMind, a Google-owned company.

There are several ways to access the model:

• Via Google Labs tools — VideoFX or VertexAI
• Through Google AI Studio

Veo can be considered a full-fledged tool for creating high-quality, hyperrealistic clips indistinguishable from real footage. Of course, it also supports animation.

Veo generates videos at 720p resolution, 24 fps, and up to 8 seconds long.

In private developer previews, 1080p resolution and 4K upscaling are available—but not yet public.

It accepts both text prompts and still images as input. For the latter, the neural network preserves the original composition and color palette.

Most importantly, Veo supports various cinematic effects: time-lapse, panorama, slow-mo, and many more—with flexible parameter control.

Veo ensures excellent consistency, stability, and smooth motion.

Every video generated includes a SynthID digital watermark, invisible to the human eye or ear—a tool developed by Google to help detect AI-generated media.

Thus, any image, video, or audio can be scanned using SynthID to verify AI generation.

Veo also pays attention to small details—hair movement, fabric fluttering, atmospheric behavior, and more. As they say, the devil is in the details.

Like most Google cloud services, Veo uses pay-as-you-go pricing—$0.50 per second or $30 per minute of generated video.

So, a standard 10-second clip will cost $5—cheap for professionals, pricey for casual users.

11. Vidu

Vidu is a Chinese AI model developed in 2024 by ShengShu AI in collaboration with Tsinghua University. 

Vidu generates smooth, dynamic, and cohesive video clips, both realistic and animated. It can also add AI-generated audio tracks to videos.

Vidu can accurately simulate the physical world, creating videos with developed characters, seamless transitions, and logical event chronology.

The platform offers three main tools: generation from text, from images, and from videos.

Additional tools include an AI voiceover generator and a collection of templates.

Maximum video resolution is 1080p. Max duration is 8 seconds. Frame rate is up to 24 fps.

The model is based on a "Universal Vision Transformer" (U-ViT) architecture, which processes text, image, and video inputs simultaneously to create coherent video sequences.

This ensures object consistency throughout the video.

For professionals and studios, Vidu is a powerful tool with great potential; for beginners, it’s an easy gateway into generative video.

Which AI to choose?

The vast majority of AI video generation services have similar video parameters: resolution from 720p to 1080p, durations of 5 to 10 seconds, and frame rates around 24 fps.

Almost all can generate video based on text prompts, images, or video inputs.

Differences in output results are usually minor—video styles and presence of visual artifacts revealing the AI. 

The choice largely depends on your input and goals: text descriptions, images, or existing video.

Some AI models offer higher detail than others.

Always check the sample videos shown on service homepages.

And keep in mind: video is a much more complex data format than text. Unlike LLMs, completely free AI video generation tools don’t exist as training the models and powering generation requires significant resources.

That said, most services offer a low-tier paid plan that removes major limitations.