- Best for
- Creators who want near-top quality and realistic human motion on a budget
- Price
- Freemium · from $10/month
Free: 66 credits a day (about two short 720p clips), watermarked, no commercial use - Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, API
- Made by
- Kuaishou, Beijing, China · since 2011
- App store ratings
- iOS 4.7★ (31.6K) · Android 4.5★ (600K)
What it is
Kling is the video generator from Chinese short-video company Kuaishou, now on its 3.0 model family with text-to-video, image-to-video, native audio and 4K output. It is available on the web, as iOS and Android apps, and through an API, and passed an annualised revenue run rate of about $500 million in early 2026.
Latest: Kling was reported in June 2026 to be raising at an $18B pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 Hong Kong IPO.
What the AI does
- Kling 3.0 text-to-video and image-to-video
- Native audio and dialogue
- Native 4K output
- Omni multimodal references for consistent characters
- Image generation and editing with Kolors
- Developer API
Pros and cons
- Strong quality for the price; Kling 3.0 models sit in the Artificial Analysis top 15
- Free daily credits
- Polished, highly rated mobile apps
- API and wide third-party availability (Runway, Higgsfield, Firefly)
- Free clips are watermarked and capped at low resolution
- Monthly credits expire and audio/4K burn them quickly
- Owned by a Chinese company, which some businesses must vet for data handling
How it scores
Video quality8.5
Ease of use8
Features9
Value for money9
Platforms9.5
Close to the leaders on quality at a much lower price; ranked just behind Google's newest models on independent leaderboards.
Feature checklist · 8 of 9
- ✓Text-to-video (from a prompt or script) (yes)
- ✓Image-to-video (yes)
- ✓Native audio, speech or sound generation (yes)
- ✓Consistent characters or avatars across videos (yes)
- –Edit existing footage with AI (restyle, extend, swap or remove objects) (no)
- ✓4K output or upscaling (yes)
- ✓Commercial use allowed on a paid plan (yes)
- ✓iOS and Android apps (yes)
- ✓Developer API (yes)
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Alternatives
See all Kling AI alternatives, ranked →
- Google Veo (Flow) 8.9/10Anyone who wants top-quality clips with synced sound, especially people already paying for Google AI
- HeyGen 8.6/10Marketers and creators making talking-head, explainer and translated videos at scale
- Runway 8.5/10Filmmakers and marketers who want fine creative control and editing, not just one-shot clips
- CapCut 8.2/10Social creators who want to generate clips and edit them into finished short videos in one app
Google Veo (Flow) vs Kling AIKling AI vs HeyGenKling AI vs Runway
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