Name: Pika
Price: 10.0 USD

What Pika makes and what you get

Short-form video Video ads & UGC Animation & motion Images & illustrations Voiceovers & narration Sound effects

✓ Model choice
– Commercial use
✓ No watermark (free)
✓ API
✓ Official MCP server
– MCP client
– Agent Skills
– Brand kit
– Teams
– Content Credentials
✓ Mobile app
– 20+ languages

Features and rights come from Pika's own pricing and terms pages; check them before you publish commercially. Compare commercial use and watermarks across apps.

AI models inside Pika

Models you can pick when you generate in Pika, from the vendor's documentation. Compare every app on the model map.

MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0)

Wan 3.0

What is Pika?

What it is

Pika is an AI creative platform from Pika Labs. It started as a playful text-to-video tool and now combines video, image and sound creation in one set of apps: Video Studio, Product Ad, Short Film, Motion Transfer, Extend Video, Character Studio, Image Studio and Pika Soundtrack. It uses its own Pika 2.5 and Pikaframes models next to third-party models.

Key features

Pika 2.5 and Pikaframes (keyframe-to-video) for stylised short clips
Ready-made apps for product ads, short films, motion transfer and video extension
Character Studio and Image Studio for consistent characters and stills
Pika Speech, Pika Music, Pika Soundtrack and Pika SFX for audio
Parallel generations (2 video on Free and Starter, unlimited on Fancy)
API, MCP access and an iOS app (top-up credits only work on pika.art)

Models inside

Pika 2.5 and Pikaframes, plus Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 and Google Omni Flash for video. Image models: GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana / Nano Banana 2, Seedream 5 and 4 and Grok Imagine. Speech: ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 and Turbo v2.5. Audio: MiniMax Music 3.0.

Pricing and rights

As of September 2026: Free is $0 with no monthly credits (you buy packs), all models, no watermark and no commercial licence. Starter is $10/month ($8 yearly) for 900 credits, still without a commercial licence. Creator is $35/month ($28 yearly) for 3,150 credits and is the cheapest plan with a commercial licence. Fancy runs from $95 to $880/month and adds a priority queue. A 720p 5-second Seedance 2.5 clip costs 122 credits, so Starter covers about 7 of them. Wan 3.0 costs 33 credits for the same clip. Credit packs cost $50 for 3,000 credits.

Who it is for

Social creators and small brands who want quick stylised clips, product ads and matching audio, and who can live with credit packs.

Verdict

Pika is now a broad, app-style studio with a useful mix of third-party models and no watermark even on free exports. The main limits: you need the $35 Creator plan for commercial use, and Seedance clips use up Starter credits in a handful of generations.

text-to-video stylised product-ads multi-model sound-effects

Pika pricing

Free plan, paid from $10/mo. Prices and credit allowances change often, so confirm on the official pricing page. See every AI content app's pricing side by side.