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Best AI tools for text to video

34 tools in the Video category, filtered to text to video.

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Runway

Featured
Video · Gen-4
9.0

Pro-grade AI video editor and Gen-4 generation.

Paid· $15/mo Standard; $35/mo Pro; $95/mo Unlimitedshort filmVFX
SO

Sora

Featured
Video · Sora
8.8

OpenAI's flagship text-to-video model.

Paid· Basic: $10 · Pro: $25 · Enterprise: Contact salesrealistic motionnarrative clips
LD

Luma Dream Machine

Video · Dream Machine
8.4

Fast, accessible text-to-video with strong camera control.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salescamera motionkeyframing
GV

Google Veo

Video · Veo 3.1
8.2

Google DeepMind's flagship text-to-video model with native audio generation and cinematic camera control.

Paid· Metered via Gemini API; also bundled in Google AI and Workspace planstext-to-videoimage-to-video
HI

Higgsfield

Video · Multi-model (Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro)
8.2

AI video and image generation suite that aggregates 30+ frontier models under one workflow.

Paid· Subscription tiers (pricing not clearly published on landing)text-to-videoimage-generation
HY

HyperFrames

Video · Multi-model (Claude Code skill; BYO agent)
8.2

Open-source video composition framework that lets AI agents build videos by writing HTML, CSS, and JS.

Free· Free, open-source (Apache 2.0)agent-driven videoprogrammatic video
LS

LTX Studio

Video · LTX-2, LTXV-13B, Veo 3, Flux.2
8.2

Storyboard-first AI video platform from Lightricks with shot-level camera and character control.

Freemium· Free: €0 · Lite: €15 · Standard: €35 · Pro: €125text-to-videostoryboarding
RU

Runway

Video · Gen-4.5, GWM-1, Aleph 2.0, Act-Two
8.2

Generative video and world-model platform from one of the original AI-video pioneers.

Freemium· Free credits; paid Standard/Pro/Unlimited tiers + Enterprisetext-to-videoimage-to-video
IA

InVideo AI

Video · Multi-model (Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, ElevenLabs, Minimax, 200+ others)
8.1

Agentic AI video platform that turns scripts into fully edited, multi-shot videos across 200+ models.

Freemium· Free tier with limits; paid Individual and Team/Enterprise plans (see pricing page)text-to-videoai-video-editing
KA

Kling AI

Video · Kling 3.0 (Omni One)
8.1

Kuaishou's flagship AI video generator, currently topping the ELO leaderboard for text-to-video and image-to-video.

Freemium· Free 66 daily credits; Standard $6.99/mo to Ultra $180/mo; API per-secondtext-to-videoimage-to-video
GE

Genmo

Video · Mochi 1
8.0

Open-source text-to-video model (Mochi 1) with a hosted playground for turning prompts into short clips.

Freemium· Free: $0/month · Lite: Loading... · Standard: Loading...text-to-videogenerative-video
KL

Kling

Video · Kling 1.6
8.0

Kuaishou's Sora competitor — strong on motion fidelity.

Freemium· Limited free; paid from ~$10/momotion fidelitynarrative clips
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Pika

Video · Pika 2.0
8.0

Playful, social-first AI video generator with creative effects.

Freemium· Basic: $8 · Standard: $28 · Pro: $76 · Fancy: Unknownsocial videomemes
DO

DomoAI

Video · Multi-model (70+ video models)
7.9

Multi-model AI video platform covering text-to-video, image-to-video, style transfer, and talking avatars.

Freemium· Basic: $6.99 · Standard: $19.59 · Pro: $48.99text-to-videoimage-to-video
FL

Fliki

Video · Multi-model (Veo, Kling, Seedance, Gemini, Minimax, ElevenLabs)
7.9

Text-to-video platform that stitches AI voiceovers, stock footage, and avatars into shareable clips.

Freemium· Free: Free · Standard: Contact sales · Premium: Contact sales · Enterprise: Contact salestext-to-videoai-voiceover
KA

Kaiber

Video · Proprietary (undisclosed)
7.9

AI video generator built around music-reactive animation and image-to-video transforms.

Freemium· Free trial credits; paid plans typically start around $5-15/momusic-videotext-to-video
CO

Colossyan

Video · Proprietary multi-model (avatar + TTS)
7.8

AI avatar video platform aimed squarely at corporate training and L&D teams.

Freemium· Starter: Free · Professional: $59/mo · Enterprise: Let's talkcorporate-trainingai-avatars
GF

Google Flow

Video · Veo 3.1, Gemini Omni, Nano Banana
7.8

Google's AI filmmaking studio built around Veo 3.1, Gemini, and natural-language scene editing.

Freemium· Free 50 daily credits; AI Plus $4.99/mo; Pro $19.99/mo; Ultra $99.99–$199.99/motext-to-videovideo-editing
PI

Pictory

Video
7.8

Turn long-form text, articles, and recordings into short, captioned videos without touching a timeline editor.

Freemium· Starter: $25 · Professional: $35 · Team: $119 · Enterprise: Customtext-to-videoblog-to-video
VI

Vidu

Video · Vidu (proprietary)
7.8

Multimodal AI video generator with strong reference-image consistency for characters and props.

Freemium· Free credits on signup; Creator Plan + CPP paid tiers; unlimited off-peak generationstext-to-videoimage-to-video
CO

CogVideoX

Video · CogVideoX / CogVideoX1.5 (diffusion transformer)
7.3

Open-source text-to-video and image-to-video diffusion transformer from Zhipu AI, runnable on consumer GPUs.

Free· Open-source weights; commercial API via bigmodel.cntext-to-videoimage-to-video
HA

Hailuo AI

Video · MiniMax Hailuo (02 series)
7.2

MiniMax's text-and-image-to-video generator known for fluid motion and cinematic camera work.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salestext-to-videoimage-to-video
HO

Hour One

Video · Proprietary avatar + TTS models
7.2

Text-to-video platform built around photorealistic AI presenter avatars for business communications.

Freemium· Free tier; paid plans from ~$30/mo; enterprise/custom avatars on requestai-avatarstext-to-video
BL

Based Labs

Video · Multi-model (FLUX, Seedance, WAN, Kling, Nano Banana)
6.9

Multi-model AI playground for image, video, and voice generation with a generous free tier.

Freemium· 300 Credits: $10 · 900 Credits: $29 · 1,600 Credits: $50 · 3,300 Credits: $99 · 10,000 Credits: $299text-to-videotext-to-image
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Melies

Video · Multi-model (Flux, Kling, Runway, Luma, Hailuo, ElevenLabs, GPT, Claude)
6.9

All-in-one AI filmmaking studio that stitches image, video, voice, and music models into a single production pipeline.

Freemium· Starter: $9/month · Pro: $49/month · Max: $99/monthai-filmmakingtext-to-video
SI

SISIF

Video
6.9

REST API for programmatic text-to-video generation, optimized for short vertical social clips.

Freemium· Alpha Tester: $10 · Starter Pack: $50 · Pro Creator: $200text-to-videoshort-form social video
KA

Keyla.AI

Video
6.8

AI avatar generator for UGC-style product ads, churning out hundreds of video variations from a single brand upload.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Standard: $20 · Premium: $30ugc-video-adsai-avatars
RA

RepublicLabs.AI

Image Generation · Multi-model
6.8

Multi-model AI image and video playground that fans a single prompt out across many generators at once.

Freemium· Basic: $15 · Pro: $30 · Enterprise: Contact salestext-to-imagetext-to-video
S2

Seedance 2.0

Video · Seedance 2.0
6.8

ByteDance's multimodal video model with joint audio-video generation and director-level camera control.

Paid· Not disclosed on the page; API metered via ByteDance's platformtext-to-videoimage-to-video
SH

ShortVideoGen

Video · OpenAI Sora 2
6.8

Text-to-video generator wrapping OpenAI's Sora 2 with audio output and per-video credit pricing.

Freemium· 5 free credits; Basic $8.99/mo (50 videos), Standard $14.99/mo (100), Pro $34.99/mo (500)text-to-videoshort-form video
WA

Wan AI

Video · Wan 2.1 / Wan 2.2
6.5

Alibaba's generative video and image playground, wrapping the open Wan model family in a consumer web app.

Freemiumtext-to-videoimage-to-video
HV

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
LV

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
MO

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