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Pika

Pika is a creative AI video generation platform. Subscription-based with credit system. Pika's API backend is served via fal.ai for programmatic access.

MiniMax

MiniMax pay-as-you-go API platform. Video generation via Hailuo models (2.3 / 2.3 Fast / Hailuo-02), image generation via image-01, plus speech and LLM endpoints. Developer-facing alternative to the Hailuo consumer subscription.

Pricing model

Subscription

Pay-per-use

Free tier

Yes

Access

Web UI

APIWeb UI

Cheapest plan

Standard3 plans total

$0.00/mo

Models offered

Pika 2.5, Pika Pikadditions, Pika Pikaffects, Pika Pikaswaps, Pikaformance +4 more

MiniMax Hailuo 02, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax Image-01, MiniMax Music 2.6 +4 more

Pros

Unique effects (Pikadditions etc.) for creative videos
Pika 2.5 at 1080p with 10s durations on paid tiers
Roll-over credits on paid plans

Cons

Free tier locked to 480p
Pikaframes costs scale with resolution quickly
Pro vs Standard pricing ambiguous on their page

Model availability

Every model offered by at least one selected tool, plus trending models (marked ) shown even when neither tool hosts them. A · means that tool does not host the model.

FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs

Seedream 4

ByteDance

Nano Banana 2

Google

Nano Banana Pro

Google

Midjourney v7

Midjourney

GPT Image 2

OpenAI

Recraft V3

Recraft

Recraft V4

Recraft

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability AI

Z-Image

MiniMax Image-01

MiniMax · 1K

$0.0035/gen

Veo 3.1

Google

Kling 3.0 Video Pro

Kuaishou

Kling 3.0 Video Standard

Kuaishou

Ray 2

Luma AI

Magnific Creative Video Upscaler

Magnific

Sora 2

OpenAI

Runway Gen-4

Runway

Grok Imagine Video

xAI

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 480p

$0.0167/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0317/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0550/sec

Pika 2.5

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0343/sec

Pika 2.5

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pika 2.5

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1143/sec

Pika Pikadditions

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pika Pikadditions

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.10/sec

Pika Pikadditions

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1857/sec

Pika Pikaffects

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0514/sec

Pika Pikaswaps

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pika Pikaswaps

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.10/sec

Pika Pikaswaps

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1857/sec

Pikaformance

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.0429/sec

Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0343/sec

Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1143/sec

Pikascenes

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pikascenes

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.10/sec

Pikascenes

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1857/sec

Pikatwists Pro

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.2286/sec

Pikatwists Turbo

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.1714/sec

Minimax Music

MiniMax · music

$0.03/gen

Minimax Music 2.5

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Music 2.6

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD

MiniMax · music

$0.10/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo

MiniMax · music

$0.06/gen

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May 15, 2026

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