📖 The AI Tool Bible

Video

Text-to-video, avatars, and AI video editors.

55 tools

Why it matters

Video generation is where image generation was in early 2023 — quality is improving every quarter and the leaders today may not be the leaders next quarter.

What's in here

Includes frontier text-to-video models (Sora, Runway Gen-4, Kling, Luma), social-creator tools (Pika), and avatar-based video for L&D and marketing (Synthesia, HeyGen).

How to pick

Pick Runway for serious production work. Pick Sora or Luma for narrative clips. Pick HeyGen for translated/avatar video. Pick Pika for fast, playful social content.

Hunyuan Video

Video · HunyuanVideo (in-house, ~13B-parameter diffusion transformer with causal 3D VAE and MLLM text encoder)

Tencent's open-source, 13B-parameter text-to-video foundation model.

Freemium· Open-source weights are free to download and self-host. Tencent's hosted product surface (aivideo.hunyuan.tencent.com) is free to use with account gating in mainland China; API access is offered through Tencent Cloud on pay-per-generation pricing.Text-to-video short clipsImage-to-video animation

LTX Video

Video · LTX-Video (LTX-2), in-house DiT — 13B full, 13B distilled, 2B distilled, FP8 quantized variants

Open-source DiT video model with synchronized audio, 4K output, and multi-keyframe control

Freemium· Model weights free under OpenRail-M (self-host). Hosted access via LTX Studio (free tier + paid plans), Fal.ai and Replicate pay-per-generation (typically fractions of a cent per second of video). Enterprise licensing available from Lightricks.Text-to-video generationImage-to-video animation

MoneyPrinterTurbo

Video · Pluggable: Kimi/Moonshot, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Qwen, Azure OpenAI, xAI Grok, MiniMax, Ollama (local), plus gateways like OneAPI, LiteLLM and Groq

Turn a single topic or keyword into a finished HD short video, end-to-end.

Free· Free and open-source (MIT license). You pay only for the third-party LLM API keys, TTS providers or stock-footage APIs you choose to plug in; running with local Ollama models and Edge TTS keeps the pipeline at $0.Faceless TikTok short generationYouTube Shorts batch production

OpenMontage

Video · Provider-agnostic orchestrator: FLUX, Imagen, GPT Image 2, Stable Diffusion, Kling, Runway Gen-4, Veo 3, HeyGen, ElevenLabs, Suno; driven by any AI coding assistant.

Open-source, agentic video production studio that plugs into your AI coding assistant.

Free· Free and open-source (AGPL-3.0). Runs at $0 with free providers (Piper TTS, Remotion, Archive.org/NASA/Wikimedia footage). Optional paid provider costs typically run $0.15-$3 per video when using Kling, Runway Gen-4, Veo 3, ElevenLabs, Suno, FLUX, etc. Configurable budget cap defaults to $10 per run.AI-generated YouTube explainer videosTalking-head shorts with cloned or synthetic voices

Opus Clip

Video · in-house (proprietary ClipAnything and ReframeAnything models, plus third-party ASR)

AI that turns long videos into short viral clips ready to post everywhere

Freemium· Free: $0 · Starter: $15/mo · Pro: $29/mo · Business: CustomPodcast to TikTok/Reels/Shorts repurposingWebinar highlight reels

Tavus

Video · In-house: Phoenix-4 (rendering), Raven-1 (perception), Sparrow-1 (turn-taking); bring-your-own LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)

Conversational video AI — build real-time face-to-face agents with a developer API

Freemium· Free ($0/mo, 25 CVI minutes, 25 stock replicas) / Starter $59/mo (100 min, 3 custom replicas, overage $0.37/min) / Growth $397/mo (1,250 min, 7 custom replicas, 10 concurrent streams, overage $0.32/min) / Enterprise custom. Video generation billed separately at $0.80–$1.00/min.AI sales development rep on a landing pageConversational customer support avatar

Vidmoat

Video · Moat AI Agent (in-house), with MCP integration for external models like Claude

Agent-first AI video editor that cuts, captions, and reframes footage from a prompt

Freemium· Hobby: $0 · Creator: $19/mo · Studio: $49/moPodcast to short-form clipsTalking-head video editing