Kling is Kuaishou's AI video model and app, sold on monthly credit plans. If you want another option, for price, a free tier or an API, these are the other AI video generators we track, with every price taken from the vendor's own pricing page.
We don't score video quality. Tools are sorted by their cheapest paid plan, the sort criterion is stated on each table, and Higgsfield is listed for what it is: a subscription that includes Kling models among others.
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Sources: kling.ai, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /app/membership/membership-plan)
Sorted by cheapest paid plan (per month, as listed), tools without a confirmed subscription price last. "Unverified" means we could not confirm the figure on the vendor's page at our latest check.
By cheapest paid plan with monthly billing: Pika Starter at $10/mo with monthly billing.
6 alternatives list a free plan or free credits. Pika: no monthly credits (credit packs only); Hailuo AI: one-time trial credits (Hailuo models only); LTX Studio: 800 one-time credits; Runway: 125 one-time credits; Higgsfield: limited set of models, no credits; Wan 2.2: open weights (Apache 2.0); you supply the compute.
The page prices credits per plan: 100 credits = $1.06 on Standard, $0.87 on Pro, $0.75 on Premier and $0.71 on Ultra+. Kling's membership page doesn't state how many credits a second of video costs, so we can't convert its plans to cost per second. Runway, Hailuo, Luma and Higgsfield do publish enough to do that; see AI video generator pricing.
Sources: kling.ai, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /app/membership/membership-plan)
A credit-based video generator whose Free plan works with credit packs.
Sources: pika.art, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /pricing)
MiniMax's video app. Its plan picker shows a per-second price for each model, and MiniMax sells the same models by the second through its API.
Sources: hailuoai.video, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /subscribe); platform.minimax.io, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /docs/pricing/overview)
LTX Studio, built on Lightricks' open LTX models, with storyboards and video generation.
Sources: ltx.io, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /studio/pricing)
A full video suite with its own Gen-4.5 model. Each plan states how many seconds of video its credits buy, and there is a developer API.
Sources: runway.com, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /pricing)
One subscription for several third-party models (including Kling), with presets aimed at creators.
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Sources: higgsfield.ai, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /creator-hub/help-center/plans/how-do-higgsfield-plans-work); higgsfield.ai, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /pricing)
Luma's Ray models on credit plans, with credits listed per 5-second clip at each resolution.
Sources: lumalabs.ai, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /pricing)
Google's video model. Google lists Oct 22, 2026 as the shutdown date for the Veo 3.1 Preview models on the Gemini API and points developers to Gemini Omni Flash instead; we haven't verified current Veo pricing.
Open-weights video models you run on your own hardware or a GPU host.
Sources: github.com, checked Oct 20, 2026, 10 PM ET (page /Wan-Video/Wan2.2)
Pika, Hailuo AI, LTX Studio, Runway, Higgsfield, and Wan 2.2 list a free plan or free credits. Pika: no monthly credits (credit packs only); Hailuo AI: one-time trial credits (Hailuo models only); LTX Studio: 800 one-time credits; Runway: 125 one-time credits; Higgsfield: limited set of models, no credits; Wan 2.2: open weights (Apache 2.0); you supply the compute. Wan 2.2's models are open weights, so there's no license fee, but you supply the GPUs.
Unverified. Kling's membership page lists paid plans only. It mentions "Daily Free Credits for Subscribers", which is a subscriber benefit, not a free plan, so we couldn't confirm a free plan there.
By cheapest paid plan with monthly billing, Pika Starter at $10/mo with monthly billing.
Higgsfield's plans include Kling models alongside others; credits are charged per generation (about 14 credits for an 8-second Kling 3.0 clip at 720p, per Higgsfield).
MiniMax (the models behind Hailuo) and Runway publish per-second API prices; see the table above. Google lists Oct 22, 2026 as the shutdown date for the Veo 3.1 Preview models on the Gemini API and points developers to Gemini Omni Flash.
Every price and plan fact above comes from these vendor pages, captured and checked at the times shown (ET). Read how we verify prices.
