Cheapest at your usage
$4.20/mo
Kling API · Pay as you go
For 10 videos a month, 5 s each
Channels that sell it
10
Subscriptions: 6 · APIs: 4
Official specs
4K · 3–15 seconds
Generates its own audio
Last confirmed
Sep 19, 2026
Next review Oct 19, 2026
A third-party model listed on both Luma's and Runway's official pricing pages. Luma publishes a per-second rate; Runway lists it in its plans, but part of Runway's rate table sits behind "View more", and the page we read has no rate for this model. Kling's own site lists it as the “Kling 3.0 Model Series”, made up of two models, VIDEO 3.0 and VIDEO 3.0 Omni. Credits per second on Kling's international web membership (kling.ai) were read from the generation page's official quote after signing in on Sep 19, 2026, and are linear in length.
Cheapest place to buy it at your volume
50 seconds of generation a month: 10 videos × 5 seconds each × 1 (average attempts per video). At least 720p, no audio needed. Change usage ↗
| Where to buy | Setting | How to buy | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kling API API | 720p No audio · Per second | Pay as you go $0.084 per second | $4.20 |
| Kling API CN API | 720p No audio · Per second | Pay as you go ¥0.60 per second | ¥30 |
| Replicate API | 720p No audio · Per second | Pay as you go $0.168 per second | $8.40 |
| Kling AI Subscription | 720p No audio · Per second | Standard plan uses 45% of the plan's credits | $8.80 |
| fal API | 4K No audio · Per second | Pay as you go $0.42 per second | $21 |
| Luma Subscription | 720p No audio · Per second | Plus plan uses 15% of the plan's credits | $30 |
Does the cheapest way to pay change with volume?
One line per channel: an API is a straight line; a subscription is the cheapest plan that covers the month, so it climbs in steps and stops past the largest plan (extra credit packs are not counted).
At 10 videos a month, each channel costs:
- Kling API$4.20/moCheapest
- Kling API CN$4.50/mo
- Replicate · API$8.40/mo
- Kling AI · Subscription$8.80/mo
- fal · API$21/mo
- 1–20 videos a month: Kling API is cheapest
- 21–22 videos a month: Kling AI · Subscription is cheapest
- 23–77 videos a month: Kling API is cheapest
- 78–100 videos a month: Kling AI · Subscription is cheapest
- 101–192 videos a month: Kling API is cheapest
- 193–266 videos a month: Kling AI · Subscription is cheapest
- 267–380 videos a month: Kling API is cheapest
- 381–866 videos a month: Kling AI · Subscription is cheapest
- 867–1,000 videos a month: Kling API is cheapest
1 more expensive channel(s) not drawn.
Official specs
| Clip length | 3–15 seconds |
|---|---|
| What it can do | Text to video, Image to video, First/last frame |
| Highest resolution | 4K |
| Audio | Generates its own audio |
Read on Kling's international web generation page while signed in (Sep 20, 2026): 720p, 1080p or 4K, 3 to 15 seconds, native audio that can be switched off, with first/last frames and multi-shot storytelling. Kling's developer platform bills in 5 and 10-second units, which differ from the lengths the web app offers.
From Kling's own page, confirmed on Sep 20, 2026. This is what the model can do; whether a given channel sells it, and at which settings, is in the prices below. Official spec page
Third-party blind-vote ranking
| Name on the leaderboard | Category | Rank | Elo score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) | With audio | #12 | 1095 |
| Kling 3.0 720p (Standard) | With audio | #13 | 1089 |
| Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) | No audio | #12 | 1230 |
| Kling 3.0 720p (Standard) | No audio | #24 | 1210 |
The text-to-video board of the Artificial Analysis Video Arena: people watch two clips, pick the better one without knowing which model made it, and the votes give an Elo score. The rank is the model's place in the board's default view (current models), and names are written as the board writes them; checked Sep 26, 2026. Scores move every week and are a guide to quality only. See the leaderboard ↗
Where it is available
| Tool | Type | Lowest monthly price | Price status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luma | Creative agent and video generation | $30 | Price verified |
| Runway | Creative shorts | $15 | Price verified |
| Kling AI | Creative shorts | $8.80 | Manually recorded price |
| Krea | Multi-model platform | $9 | Manually recorded price |
| Higgsfield | Multi-model platform | $15 | Manually recorded price |
| Magnific | Multi-model platform | $20 | Price verified |
"Lowest monthly price" is the cheapest confirmed monthly plan for that tool. It does not mean that plan includes this model — premium models are often limited to pricier plans. Each tool's official pricing page is the authority.
Pay-as-you-go API prices
| API provider | API model name | Resolution | Audio | Official price | Per second | Minimum per generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fal | fal-ai/kling-video/v3/standard/text-to-videoText/image to video · standard mode | Not split by resolution | No audio | $0.084/s | $0.084 | — |
| Kling API | Kling 3.0 | 720p | No audio | 0.6 credits/s | $0.084 | — |
| Kling API CN | Kling 3.0 | 720p | No audio | 0.6 credits/s | $0.090 | — |
| fal | fal-ai/kling-video/v3/pro/text-to-videoText/image to video · pro mode | Not split by resolution | No audio | $0.112/s | $0.112 | — |
| Kling API | Kling 3.0 | 1080p | No audio | 0.8 credits/s | $0.112 | — |
| Kling API CN | Kling 3.0 | 1080p | No audio | 0.8 credits/s | $0.120 | — |
| fal | fal-ai/kling-video/v3/standard/text-to-videoText/image to video · standard mode | Not split by resolution | With audio | $0.126/s | $0.126 | — |
| Kling API | Kling 3.0 | 720p | With audio | 0.9 credits/s | $0.126 | — |
| Kling API CN | Kling 3.0 | 720p | With audio | 0.9 credits/s | $0.135 | — |
| fal | fal-ai/kling-video/v3/pro/text-to-videoText/image to video · pro mode | Not split by resolution | With audio | $0.168/s | $0.168 | — |
| Replicate | kwaivgi/kling-v3-video | 720p | No audio | $0.168/s | $0.168 | — |
| Kling API | Kling 3.0 | 1080p | With audio | 1.2 credits/s | $0.168 | — |
| Kling API CN | Kling 3.0 | 1080p | With audio | 1.2 credits/s | $0.180 | — |
| Replicate | kwaivgi/kling-v3-video | 1080p | No audio | $0.224/s | $0.224 | — |
| Replicate | kwaivgi/kling-v3-video | 720p | With audio | $0.252/s | $0.252 | — |
| Replicate | kwaivgi/kling-v3-video | 1080p | With audio | $0.336/s | $0.336 | — |
| fal | fal-ai/kling-video/v3/4k/text-to-video | 4K | No audio | $0.42/s | $0.420 | — |
| fal | fal-ai/kling-video/v3/4k/text-to-video | 4K | With audio | $0.42/s | $0.420 | — |
| Replicate | kwaivgi/kling-v3-video | 4K | No audio | $0.42/s | $0.420 | — |
| Replicate | kwaivgi/kling-v3-video | 4K | With audio | $0.42/s | $0.420 | — |
| Kling API | Kling 3.0 | 4K | No audio | 3 credits/s | $0.420 | — |
| Kling API | Kling 3.0 | 4K | With audio | 3 credits/s | $0.420 | — |
| Kling API CN | Kling 3.0 | 4K | No audio | 3 credits/s | $0.450 | — |
| Kling API CN | Kling 3.0 | 4K | With audio | 3 credits/s | $0.450 | — |
Prices as each provider's official pricing page states them, confirmed Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026. No subscription: you pay for the seconds generated. Prices exclude tax.
How much Kling 3.0 video the credits buy
On Luma
| Resolution | Audio | Billing | Credits per second | Plus 10,000 credits | Pro 40,000 credits | Ultra 150,000 credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | No audio | Per second 30 credits | 30 | 333 s ≈33 clips of 10s | 1333 s ≈133 clips of 10s | 5000 s ≈500 clips of 10s |
| 720p | With audio | Per second 40 credits | 40 | 250 s ≈25 clips of 10s | 1000 s ≈100 clips of 10s | 3750 s ≈375 clips of 10s |
| 1080p | No audio | Per second 40 credits | 40 | 250 s ≈25 clips of 10s | 1000 s ≈100 clips of 10s | 3750 s ≈375 clips of 10s |
| 1080p | With audio | Per second 49 credits | 49 | 204 s ≈20 clips of 10s | 816 s ≈81 clips of 10s | 3061 s ≈306 clips of 10s |
| 2160p (4K) | No audio | Per second 147 credits | 147 | 68 s ≈6 clips of 10s | 272 s ≈27 clips of 10s | 1020 s ≈102 clips of 10s |
| 2160p (4K) | With audio | Per second 147 credits | 147 | 68 s ≈6 clips of 10s | 272 s ≈27 clips of 10s | 1020 s ≈102 clips of 10s |
Rates come from Luma's official pricing page; seconds are the plan's credits divided by the rate. That is the ceiling if you do nothing else — credits also go to images, voice, upscaling and more, so the real total is lower. Where a model has several rows, the vendor prices clip lengths separately — the per-second rates really differ; it is not a typo. Models without an exact official rate we could find are left out; we don't estimate for them.
On Kling AI
| Resolution | Audio | Billing | Credits per second | Standard 660 credits | Pro 3,000 credits | Premier 8,000 credits | Ultra 26,000 credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | No audio | Per second 6 credits | 6 | 110 s ≈11 clips of 10s | 500 s ≈50 clips of 10s | 1333 s ≈133 clips of 10s | 4333 s ≈433 clips of 10s |
| 720p | With audio | Per second 9 credits | 9 | 73 s ≈7 clips of 10s | 333 s ≈33 clips of 10s | 889 s ≈88 clips of 10s | 2889 s ≈288 clips of 10s |
| 1080p | No audio | Per second 8 credits | 8 | 83 s ≈8 clips of 10s | 375 s ≈37 clips of 10s | 1000 s ≈100 clips of 10s | 3250 s ≈325 clips of 10s |
| 1080p | With audio | Per second 12 credits | 12 | 55 s ≈5 clips of 10s | 250 s ≈25 clips of 10s | 667 s ≈66 clips of 10s | 2167 s ≈216 clips of 10s |
| 4K | No audio | Per second 30 credits | 30 | 22 s ≈2 clips of 10s | 100 s ≈10 clips of 10s | 267 s ≈26 clips of 10s | 867 s ≈86 clips of 10s |
| 4K | With audio | Per second 30 credits | 30 | 22 s ≈2 clips of 10s | 100 s ≈10 clips of 10s | 267 s ≈26 clips of 10s | 867 s ≈86 clips of 10s |
Rates come from Kling AI's official pricing page; seconds are the plan's credits divided by the rate. That is the ceiling if you do nothing else — credits also go to images, voice, upscaling and more, so the real total is lower. Where a model has several rows, the vendor prices clip lengths separately — the per-second rates really differ; it is not a typo. Models without an exact official rate we could find are left out; we don't estimate for them.
This model is included in plans on Runway, Krea, Higgsfield, Magnific, but we found no exact official rate for it there, so no durations are listed — we don't estimate on a vendor's behalf.
How the status is checked
Whether a model still runs is checked separately from prices: prices change monthly, but a model can disappear between two price syncs, quietly making every page that mentions it wrong. So each model record has its own confirmation date and review deadline; overdue records are flagged, never assumed to still be running.
Last confirmed on Sep 19, 2026; due to be rechecked by Oct 19, 2026.
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