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Best AI tools for text to video

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

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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
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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
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HeyGen

Video · HeyGen proprietary
8.3

Avatar video + lip-sync translation at scale.

Paid· Free: $0/mo · Creator: $29/mo · Pro: $49/mo · Business: $149/mo · Enterprise: Contact Saleslocalisationavatar video
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Topaz Video AI

Video · Proprietary (Proteus, Iris, Nyx, Starlight Precise, +20 models)
8.2

Desktop AI video enhancer for upscaling, denoising, stabilization, and frame interpolation up to 8K/120fps.

Paid· Topaz Studio: $69/mo · Topaz Studio Pro: $79/mo · Topaz Image Web: $12/mo · Image Web Pro: $35/mo · Astra Standard: $19/movideo-upscalingdenoising
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Argil

Video · Proprietary avatar model; integrates VEO3 and Hailuo for AI Fictions
7.8

AI avatar video generator that clones your face and voice from a single photo and a minute of audio.

Paid· Classic: $39 · Pro: $149 · Scale: $499 · Enterprise: Custom pricingai-avatarstalking-head-video
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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
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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
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Hedra

Video · Character-3 (proprietary) + multi-model canvas
7.8

AI creative agent for character-driven video, image, and audio generation built around the Character-3 model.

Freemium· Basic: $15 · Creator: $30 · Professional: $75 · Teams: $75 · Enterprise: Customtalking-avatar-videocharacter-animation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DaVinci Resolve

Video · DaVinci Neural Engine (proprietary)
7.1

Hollywood-grade post-production suite with a Neural Engine that quietly automates the tedious parts of editing, color, and audio.

Freemium· Free Version: Free · DaVinci Resolve Studio: $295video-editingcolor-grading
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D-ID

Video · Proprietary face-animation + multi-model LLM/TTS
7.0

Talking-head avatar video generator with real-time conversational agents and a developer API.

Freemium· Free trial; tiered Studio plans + credit-based APItalking-avatar-videoai-presenters
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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
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Shotstack Workflows

Video · Multi-model (OpenAI, Stability AI, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, D-ID)
6.9

No-code visual builder for AI-powered video and media automation pipelines.

Freemium· PAY AS YOU GO: $0.30 / Per minute · SUBSCRIPTION: $39 · HIGH VOLUME SOLUTIONS: ?personalized-videoad-variants
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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
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AISaver

Video · Multi-model (Nano Banana Pro, Kling AI, Seedance 2.0)
6.8

Browser-based face swap and AI video/image generator stitched together from third-party models.

Freemium· Popular: $29 · Recommended 7,500 credits: $29 · Recommended 15,000 credits: $49 · Recommended 35,000 credits: $99 · Recommended 80,000 credits: $199face-swapimage-to-video
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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
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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
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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
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Recast Studio

Video
6.7

Turns webinars, podcasts and Zoom recordings into short social clips and written posts via transcript-based editing.

Freemium· Free trial; Starter $14/mo; Professional $26/movideo-repurposingpodcast-clips
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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
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BatchEdits

Video

Bulk AI video editor that processes up to 50 clips in parallel

Freemium· Basic: $20 · Pro: $50 · Enterprise: Contact salesBatch captioning of podcast clipsSilence removal for talking-head recordings
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CapCut AI

Video · Seedance (ByteDance) plus integrations such as Luma Dream Machine; in-house speech and vision models

AI-native video, image, audio and design tooling built into a consumer-scale editor

Freemium· Free tier / CapCut Pro approx. $7.99 per month or $89.99 per year (regional variation) / Enterprise & team pricing on requestShort-form social video editingAuto captioning and translation
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Descript

Video · Undisclosed in-house and third-party models for transcription, voice synthesis, and generative video

AI video and podcast editor that lets you edit media like a text document

Freemium· Free: $0 · Hobbyist: $16 · Creator: $24 · Business: $50 · Enterprise: CustomPodcast editingYouTube talking-head videos
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FaceFusion

Video · In-house ONNX pipeline built on open face-swap, face enhancement (GFPGAN/CodeFormer-family), and lip-sync (Wav2Lip-family) models

Industry-leading open-source face manipulation platform for images and video

Free· Free and open source (OpenRAIL-AS license). No paid tiers; users bear their own GPU/compute costs when self-hosting.Video face swapImage face swap
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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