Shotcraft
Video generation

Pika 2.5

Pika's current generation model, available as both text-to-video and image-to-video on the Pika API and in the Pika consumer app.

A video generation model by Pika · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing medium

Resolution
1080p
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Permitted subject to conditions

Outputs 720p or 1080p; Pika's pricing page states maximum video duration ranges from 5 to 25 seconds depending on the feature and resolution used, with longer clips built through Pikaframes.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

Free tier is watermarked and explicitly excludes commercial use.

  • The free tier is non-commercial. Free tier is watermarked and explicitly excludes commercial use
  • Depends on your plan tier. Commercial use is permitted on Standard and above, which also remove the watermark
  • Output is watermarked. Free tier is watermarked and explicitly excludes commercial use

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Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Pika's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is mixed. Some fields came from pages we retrieved, others could not be confirmed and are left blank. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
video
Maximum duration
not established
Maximum resolution
1080p
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
image-to-video, extend, keyframes
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
API per second of output: $0.04/sec at 720p, $0.09/sec at 1080p. Consumer app is credit-based: Free 80 monthly credits (480p, image-to-video only, watermarked, no commercial use), Standard $8/mo yearly 700 credits, Pro $28/mo 2,300 credits, Fancy $76/mo 6,000 credits; video generation costs 12-80 credits per video
Released or updated
not established

Maximum duration and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Among the cheapest per-second video APIs at $0.04/sec (720p)
  • Both text-to-video and image-to-video paths
  • Generous free tier for experimentation
  • Sits alongside Pika's effect and edit tools in one platform

Weaknesses

  • Per-generation duration limits are not published as explicit enums on Pika's own pages
  • No native audio generation documented
  • Free tier is 480p, watermarked and non-commercial
  • Aspect ratio options are not documented on the pages fetched
  • Model generation is behind the current frontier (Pika 2.5 dates from 2025)

Best for

Where the sources disagree

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Sources

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