Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0 (API name kling-v3) is Kuaishou's flagship general video model, taking text, image or video input and producing 3 to 15 second clips at 720P, 1080P or native 4K.
- Up to
- 15 seconds
- Resolution
- 4K (720P / 1080P / 4K tiers; exact pixel dimensions not published in the API docs)
- Aspect ratios
- 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Commercial use
- Not established
It can generate native audio in several languages and accents alongside the picture, and supports multi-shot storytelling in a single generation. It also exposes a Motion Control variant that transfers movement from a driving video onto a bound character element.
Output use is governed by Kling's Terms of API Paid Service (https://kling.ai/document-api/guides/protocols/paid-service); that document could not be retrieved for review, so commercial-use rights are recorded as unverified rather than assumed.
Specification
- What it takes in
- text, image, video
- What it makes
- video, audio
- Maximum duration
- 15 seconds
- Maximum resolution
- 4K (720P / 1080P / 4K tiers; exact pixel dimensions not published in the API docs)
- Aspect ratios
- 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
- Controls
- image-to-video, start-end-frame, reference-character-consistency, lipsync
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Pricing
- Prepaid API units, 1 unit = $0.14 list. Billed per second of output: without native audio $0.084/s (720P), $0.112/s (1080P), $0.42/s (4K); with native audio and no voice control $0.126/s (720P), $0.168/s (1080P), $0.42/s (4K). Motion Control $0.126/s (720P), $0.168/s (1080P). Unit packages start at $700 for 5,000 units with 180-day validity and 20 concurrency.
- Released or updated
- 2026-02-05 (product announcement); 2026-02-25 (API launch of V3 and 3.0 Omni); native 4K added 2026-04-23
- Prompt limit
- 2,500 characters, plus 2,500 for the negative promptVendor figure, checked 2026-08-16Collected from the vendor's own documentation on 16 August 2026. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check the vendor's current API reference before you rely on it. Check the vendor's documentation
- Prompt length the vendor recommends
- 40 to 60 words on 2.5 Turbo Pro, 60 to 100 on 2.6 and O1, 15 to 40 for image to videoThe recommended length is well below the cap on every model that publishes both. The cap is the point of rejection, not the target: writing to it produces worse output, not more detail.
Strengths
- Native 4K output (mode=4k) is rare among closed video models
- Up to 15s in a single generation with multi-shot support
- Synchronised native audio in multiple languages and accents
- Element / reference system for character and object consistency
Weaknesses
- 4K is billed at 3.0 units per second, roughly 3.75x the 1080P rate
- No camera-control parameter and no motion brush on the 3.x API surface (those remain legacy 1.x/2.1 web features)
- Consumer subscription pricing is not published on a fetchable page, only API unit pricing
Best for
- Teams that need long-ish, high-resolution shots with synced dialogue and consistent recurring characters, and can absorb 4K pricing.
Where the sources disagree
Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.
- {'claim': 'Maximum video resolution', 'a': "Kling's own API model table and 2026-04-23 changelog entry list 720P / 1080P / 4K for kling-v3, with no frame rate stated", 'aUrl': 'https://kling.ai/document-api/apiReference/model/videoModels', 'b': "Secondary coverage states Kling 3.0 outputs 3840x2160 at up to 60fps; Kuaishou's own press release only claims 2K/4K for the Image 3.0 models and says nothing about video fps", 'bUrl': 'https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kling-ai-launches-3-0-model-ushering-in-an-era-where-everyone-can-be-a-director-302679944.html'}
What to understand before using it
Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.
MCP servers that front Kling AI (Kuaishou Technology)
Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.
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Adclip
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Aetherwave
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ArkRoute, Visual AI API Gateway
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Avocado AI
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BananaBanana Image & Video Generation
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BlitzReels Video Editor
Create, edit, reframe, caption, organize, generate, and export short-form videos with BlitzReels.
See it from the vendor
Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.
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