Shotcraft
Video generation

Vidu Q3-turbo

Vidu Q3-turbo is the fast, low-cost Q3 variant covering text-to-video, image-to-video, start-end-to-video and reference-to-video with 540p to 1080p output.

A video generation model by Shengshu Technology (Vidu) · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Up to
16 seconds
Resolution
1080p
Aspect ratios
16:9, 9:16, 3:4, 4:3
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Not established

Durations run 1 to 16 seconds for the frame-based modes and 3 to 16 seconds for reference-to-video, which accepts 1 to 7 reference images. Audio-video joint output is enabled by default.

Commercial use — Not established

Vidu's Terms of Use (https://platform.vidu.com/docs/terms-of-use) were not reviewed, so commercial-use rights are left unverified.

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Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Shengshu Technology (Vidu)'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 strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
video, audio
Maximum duration
16 seconds
Maximum resolution
1080p
Aspect ratios
16:9, 9:16, 3:4, 4:3, 1:1
Controls
image-to-video, start-end-frame, reference-character-consistency, keyframes
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
Credits at $0.005 each, per second. Frame modes: 540p 7 credits/s ($0.035), 720p 11 ($0.055), 1080p 13 ($0.065). Reference-to-video: 540p 4 ($0.02), 720p 10 ($0.05), 1080p 13 ($0.065). Off-peak roughly halves each rate.
Released or updated
2026-02-11 (text/image/start-end); 2026-04-13 (reference-to-video)

Strengths

  • Reference-to-video at 720p for $0.05/s (or $0.025/s off-peak) is among the cheapest first-party rates found
  • Up to 7 reference images for subject consistency
  • 16 second maximum
  • Audio on by default

Weaknesses

  • Quality trades off against Q3-pro and Q3-mix
  • No 4K
  • Reference-to-video minimum duration is 3 seconds, not 1

Best for

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

MCP servers that front Shengshu Technology (Vidu)

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Sources

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