Tools & models

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Seedance (ByteDance Seed)

ByteDance Seed's official home for the Seedance video models. Start here for official release notes and demos before you pick a hosted endpoint.

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Seedance 1.0 Pro on fal

fal's hosted image-to-video endpoint for Seedance 1.0 Pro, ByteDance's higher-quality tier. You can call it by API without running the model yourself.

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Kling AI

Kuaishou's own Kling studio, where you make text-, image- and reference-driven video and images in one web app. It's the place to try new Kling versions first.

Demo by Kuaishou

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Veo (Google DeepMind)

Google DeepMind's page for the Veo video model family, with capability notes and sample clips straight from the lab.

Demo by Google DeepMind

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Veo 3 on fal

Veo 3 served through fal's API, with text-to-video and optional generated audio. Price depends on whether audio is on.

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Veo 3 Fast on fal

A faster, cheaper Veo 3 variant on fal. It's a sensible default for drafts before you spend on the full model.

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Veo on Gemini API docs

Google's developer docs for generating video through the Gemini API, including when to pick Veo 3.1 versus faster editing-oriented models.

Demo by Google DeepMind

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Google Flow

Google's filmmaking app built on Veo and its image models. You assemble shots and scenes in one place instead of generating clips one by one.

Demo by @GoogleLabs

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Runway

Runway's main site: a web studio and API for generating and editing video with its Gen-series models.

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Runway pricing

Runway's plan page (Free, Standard, Pro, Max), credit-based. Check it before estimating per-clip costs, since credits per second vary by model.

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Runway API docs

Developer docs for Runway's API: auth, endpoints and model options for building video generation into your own product.

Demo by @runwayml

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Runway Changelog

Runway's running log of releases. It's the quickest way to see which models, clip lengths and features are new.

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Hailuo AI

MiniMax's consumer app for its Hailuo video models, with text- and image-to-video plus social-oriented tools.

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MiniMax video API docs

MiniMax's platform overview, where to find API access for its video, speech and language models.

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Luma Dream Machine

Luma's Dream Machine app for its Ray video models. It runs on credit-based monthly plans.

Demo by Luma AI

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Luma Ray2 on fal

Luma Ray 2 through fal's API. It's known for natural motion and coherent scenes, and fal's page quotes the cost per 5-second clip.

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Luma API docs

Luma's API reference, for calling Ray video generation directly rather than through a reseller.

Demo by @LumaLabsAI

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Pika

Pika's creator-focused video app, with short effects-driven clips and multi-shot generation.

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Pika 2.2 on fal

Pika 2.2 text-to-video on fal, at up to 1080p. fal lists a per-video price range.

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fal video models

fal's catalog of hosted video models (Kling, Veo, Seedance, Wan, Hailuo and more) behind a single API. It's useful for switching models without new integrations.

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Replicate video collection

Replicate's curated collection of text-to-video models you can run by API, an alternative host to fal.

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ComfyUI

ComfyUI is the open, node-based app for building image and video pipelines on your own GPU or in the cloud. Most open-model video workflows assume it.

Demo by Comfy Org

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ComfyUI docs: video

Official ComfyUI tutorial for Wan 2.1: text-to-video with the 1.3B model and image-to-video with the 14B model, including where each model file goes.

Demo by Comfy Org

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ComfyUI Changelog

ComfyUI's release log. Check it to see when new video models get native nodes.

Demo by @ComfyUI

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LTX Video on fal

Lightricks' open LTX Video model on fal. It's one of the cheapest hosted options, at a flat per-video price.

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HunyuanVideo on fal

Tencent's open HunyuanVideo on fal, at a flat per-video price. fal notes it's free for commercial use.

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Higgsfield

Higgsfield is a creator platform that wraps several video and image models with camera-move presets, editing, upscaling and an agent for automating runs.

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Hedra

Hedra's platform and models, best known for expressive character and talking-avatar video.

Demo by @hedra_labs

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Moonvalley Marey

Moonvalley, the lab behind the Marey video model, which it positions for professional film work.

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Vidu

Shengshu's Vidu video generator, with text-, image- and reference-to-video aimed at social content and ads.

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PixVerse

PixVerse's video generation models and app, now also pushing into real-time and interactive video.

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Krea Video

Krea's creative suite, which gives you access to several third-party video models (including Seedance) alongside its own image tools.

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Topaz Video AI

Topaz's video enhancement models for upscaling, sharpening, stabilizing and frame interpolation. It's a common last step before delivering AI clips.

Demo by Topaz Labs

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ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs' voice generation platform, the usual pick for narration and character voices in AI video pipelines.

Demo by ElevenLabs

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Veo 3.1 on fal

Veo 3.1 on fal for text-to-video. fal lists separate per-second prices with and without audio, plus a higher 4K tier.

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Veo 3.1 Fast on fal

The fast Veo 3.1 tier on fal, at roughly half the price of full Veo 3.1 per second. It's a good fit for iterating before a final render.

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Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro on fal

Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro text-to-video on fal, Kling's speed-optimised premium tier. The price wasn't captured from the page.

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Hailuo 2.3 Pro on fal

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Pro image-to-video on fal at 1080p, billed at a flat price per generation.

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Wan 2.5 Preview on fal

A preview of Wan 2.5 text-to-video on fal, with per-second prices that rise from 480p to 1080p. The page also accepts an audio file input.

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LTX-2 on fal

Lightricks' LTX-2 Pro on fal: text-to-video with audio from 1080p up to 2160p, billed per second by resolution.

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Wan 2.2 on GitHub

Alibaba's official open-weights repo for Wan 2.2, the successor to 2.1, with code and model downloads for local runs.

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LTX-2 on GitHub

Lightricks' official Python inference package and LoRA trainer for LTX-2, its open audio-video model.

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ManimGX – Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python

A re-implementation of the Manim animation API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for code-driven 2D/3D explainer videos in Python. It also runs in the browser.

▲ 7 HN● sourced

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open-higgsfield

An open-source studio with one prompt bar, per-model settings and a single gallery of finished runs.

★ 4,248● sourced

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Seedance 1.0 Lite on fal

The cheaper, faster Lite tier of Seedance 1.0 on fal, for text-to-video. The page lists 5 or 10 second clips at up to 720p.

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Kling 2.1 Master on fal

The premium Kling 2.1 Master endpoint on fal, for text-to-video. fal pitches it for the smoothest motion and closest prompt adherence of the 2.1 tiers.

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Kling 2.1 Standard on fal

A lower-cost Kling 2.1 image-to-video endpoint on fal. fal's page gives a clear per-clip and per-second price, which makes it easy to budget for batches.

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MiniMax Hailuo 02 on fal

Hailuo 02 image-to-video through fal, billed per second at 512p or 768p.

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Wan 2.1 on fal

Wan 2.1 image-to-video hosted on fal, with roughly 5–6 second clips at 480p or 720p and a flat price per video.

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Wan (Alibaba) GitHub

Alibaba's official open-weights repo for Wan 2.1, with code, model downloads and hardware notes for running it locally.

Demo by Wan-Video

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Maestro

A fully local video, image and music studio on the WanGP pipeline. Its director mode plans a whole music video or short from one prompt.

WanLTX Video★ 732● sourced

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Calliope

A local story-to-video app. It turns an idea into a storyline and script, splits scenes into shots, generates each shot through your own ComfyUI, then stitches the clips into a film with ffmpeg.

Demo by Benji’s AI Playground

ComfyUI★ 244● sourced

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ai-shortVideo-pipeline

Backend plumbing for an AI short-video service: multi-model failover, metering and quality gating.

Kling★ 729● sourced

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agnes-video-generator

A self-hosted web app that turns text into multi-scene videos with narration, subtitles and a presenter, powered by Agnes AI.

★ 503● sourced

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HunyuanVideo-1.5

HunyuanVideo 1.5, Tencent's lighter open video model aimed at running on more accessible hardware.

Demo by Tencent-Hunyuan

HunyuanVideo★ 4,576● sourced

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Nomi

An open-source video workbench that lets coding agents direct any model or local ComfyUI over MCP, from storyboard to an editable first cut.

ComfyUI★ 559● sourced

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flowboard

A local infinite-canvas tool where you wire model, product and scene nodes into product videos.

★ 468● sourced

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comfy-skills

Comfy's official plugin for coding agents. It adds slash commands and an MCP connection so an agent can generate images, video, audio and 3D, or run ComfyUI workflows on Comfy Cloud.

ComfyUI★ 225● sourced

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LTX-Video

Lightricks' official LTX-Video repo: open weights and inference code for one of the fastest open video models.

Demo by @ltx_io (Lightricks)

LTX Video★ 11,067● sourced

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LightX2V

A lightweight inference framework for text-to-video, image-to-video and image generation that supports several open models. There's also a hosted demo studio.

WanLTX VideoHunyuanVideo★ 2,897● sourced

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goku

Code for the Goku video generation foundation models, a CVPR 2025 highlight paper.

Demo by Saiyan-World

★ 2,906● sourced

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FastVideo

An open framework for faster video generation, covering both post-training and real-time inference. Docs and a cookbook are linked from the repo.

★ 4,584● sourced

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egaki

A command-line tool for generating images and video from the terminal across Google, OpenAI, fal, Replicate and Seedance. Agents can use it too.

Seedancefal★ 172● sourced

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seedance-2-generator

A starter SaaS codebase (Next.js, Stripe, NextAuth, Prisma) for selling Seedance 2.x video generation.

Demo by SamurAIGPT

Seedance★ 95● sourced

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Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

Lance, from ByteDance, is a single model for both generating and understanding images and video, with code, paper and weights linked.

▲ 64 HN● sourced

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vibeframe

A CLI and MCP server that lets a coding agent turn a brief into a finished MP4 using your own Seedance, Runway, Kling or Gemini keys. Every paid step has a dry-run price and a hard spending cap.

SeedanceKlingVeo★ 175● sourced

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openjourney

A Midjourney-style web UI clone that generates images with Imagen 4 and video with Veo through Google's Gemini SDK.

Veo★ 269● sourced

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vapourkit

A front-end for VapourSynth focused on video upscaling.

★ 87● sourced

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video2x

A long-running open framework for AI video upscaling and frame interpolation, with several backends in one tool.

Demo by K4YT3X

★ 22,154● sourced

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free-ai-video-upscaler

Source for a free browser-based AI video upscaler.

★ 547● sourced

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fal-mcp-server

An MCP server that lets Claude generate images, video, music and audio through fal.

fal★ 60● sourced

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TheAnimeScripter

An open anime-video toolkit for AI upscaling, RIFE interpolation and restoration in one pass, as CLI, standalone app or After Effects plugin.

Demo by Nilas

★ 332● sourced

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Open-AI-UGC

A self-hostable Next.js app for making UGC-style video ads with AI actors, using models like Veo 3.1 and Seedance 2. Disclose AI actors in ads.

SeedanceVeo★ 362● sourced

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img-prompt

Pick tags in your own language and it assembles the English prompt that image and video models expect.

SeedanceKlingVeo★ 363● sourced

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synergize-motion-appearance

Official code for a CVPR 2025 paper on talking-head video generation with multi-scale codebooks. Research code; use only with consent of the person shown.

★ 66● sourced

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Runway Gen-4.5: A new frontier for video generation

Runway's announcement page for Gen-4.5, its next-generation video model.

Runway▲ 5 HN● sourced

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HunyuanVideo

Tencent's original open HunyuanVideo repo: weights, code and a technical report for a large open video model.

Demo by Tencent-Hunyuan

HunyuanVideo★ 12,613legacy● sourced

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LTX-Video: Realtime Video Latent Diffusion

The arXiv paper behind LTX-Video, explaining how it generates video faster than real time.

LTX Video▲ 3 HN● sourced

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Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow

Google's announcement of Veo 3 with native audio, Imagen 4, and the Flow filmmaking app.

Demo by Google

Veo▲ 832 HNlegacy● sourced

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CogVideo

The official repo for CogVideo and CogVideoX, the open text- and image-to-video models from Zhipu/THUDM.

Demo by zai-org

SoraCogVideo★ 13,066legacy● sourced

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VGen

Alibaba's VGen research codebase covering several diffusion video methods.

Demo by ali-vilab

★ 3,153legacy● sourced

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DAIN

Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation (CVPR 2019), the classic research code.

Demo by Wenbo Bao

★ 8,312legacy● sourced

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I made an Image2Video version of HunyuanVideo and tonight I open-sourced it

A community-built image-to-video variant of HunyuanVideo, released as open source on GitHub.

Demo by AeroScripts

HunyuanVideo▲ 6 HNlegacy● sourced

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WanX open weight sota 14B video model release

The Hugging Face release of the open 14B Wan (WanX) video model.

Wan▲ 3 HNlegacy● sourced