Shotcraft
Video generation

Veo 3

Previous-generation Veo model with native audio, superseded by Veo 3.1. Google's Gemini API pricing page marks Veo 3 as deprecated with a scheduled shutdown of 2026-06-30, so it should be treated as unavailable for new work.

A video generation model by Google · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing low

Resolution
4K
Weights
Not released
API
No
Commercial use
Not established
Shutdown scheduled

Effective: 2026-06-30

Commercial use — Not established

The research notes for this model record other terms but do not state a commercial-use position, and no licence page was retrieved, so it is not established here. Check the vendor's own terms.

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Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Google'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 thin. Treat it as a starting point and verify before relying on any figure. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
video, audio
Maximum duration
not established
Maximum resolution
4K
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
image-to-video
Weights
Not released
API
No
Pricing
Historic Gemini API per-second pricing: $0.40/sec standard; Fast $0.10/sec (720p), $0.12/sec (1080p), $0.30/sec (4K)
Released or updated
not established
Prompt limit
not published by the vendorVendor 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
100 to 150 words, or 3 to 6 sentencesThe 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.

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

  • Introduced native audio generation to the Veo line

Weaknesses

  • Deprecated; shutdown date of 2026-06-30 has passed
  • Superseded by Veo 3.1 which adds reference images, extension and first/last frame

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.

MCP servers that front Google

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.

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.

Nearby in the directory

Veo 3.1 Fast

Lower-latency, lower-cost variant of Veo 3.1 with the same feature surface: native audio, 4K support, up to three reference images, first/last frame a

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Veo 3.1 Lite

Cheapest Veo 3.1 tier, capped at 1080p. Unlike the standard and Fast variants it does not support video extension, 4K output, or reference images. Mod

Video generation

Veo 3.1

Generates 4, 6 or 8 second clips with natively generated audio from a text prompt, an image, or up to three reference images. Supports first-and-last-

Video generation

Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.