Pika

Pika is an AI video app from Pika Labs whose newest model, Pika H3 Flex (Oct 29, 2026), makes up to 15 seconds of video with stereo sound and has open weights. Pika has a free plan that runs on bought credits, and paid plans cost $10, $35 or from $95 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Pika is an AI video app from Pika Labs at pika.art, and as of Nov 6, 2026 its paid plans cost $10, $35 or from $95 a month ($8, $28 or from $76 billed yearly) with 600 to 8,550 or more credits; the Free plan includes no monthly credits but lets you buy credit packs, from $25 for 1,500 credits. Its newest model is Pika H3 Flex, announced on Oct 29, 2026: a version of MiniMax's open H3 model trained further by Pika, with clips of up to 15 seconds, stereo sound, up to 12 references, output up to 4K and open weights. Pika also sells outside models in the same app, including Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0, Veo 3.1, Wan 3.0 and Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash.

Pika has the cheapest entry plan among the big video apps and is good for quick social clips, ads and swapping things into a video. Its own older models trail on the leaderboards: Pika 2.2 is 49th of 50 on Arena's text-to-video board (Arena, read Nov 6, 2026), and H3 Flex is not ranked yet. For top measured quality, Google's Gemini Omni in Google Flow is first; for an editing studio, Runway. Best AI Video Generator compares them.

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Quick facts

Get it	pika.art on the web, iOS app, Pika for ChatGPT, Pika MCP and API
Maker	Pika Labs
Price	Free (credit packs only); Starter $10, Creator $35, Fancy from $95 a month (as of Nov 6, 2026)
Newest model	Pika H3 Flex (Oct 29, 2026), based on MiniMax H3
Own models	Pika H3 Flex, Pika 2.5, Pikaframes, Pika Music, Pika Soundtrack, Pika SFX, Pika Speech
Outside models	Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0, Veo 3.1, Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Grok Imagine (Pika)
Ranking	Pika 2.2 49th on Arena text-to-video, score 1009 (read Nov 6, 2026)
Open weights	Pika H3 Flex: yes (Pika)

Plans and prices

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	No monthly credits (buy packs), 2 videos at a time, no commercial license
Starter	$10 a month, or $8 yearly ($96)	600 credits a month, commercial license
Creator	$35 a month, or $28 yearly ($336)	2,600 credits, 8 videos at a time
Fancy	From $95 a month, or from $76 yearly	8,550 or more credits, unlimited parallel jobs, priority queue; early model access from $440 a month
Enterprise	Custom	Dedicated support

Source: Pika pricing, read Nov 6, 2026. All plans, Free included, have no watermark and all models. Credit packs run from $25 for 1,500 credits to $1,000 for 66,000 (60 credits per dollar) and last 365 days; plan credits do not roll over. For a limited time, Creator and Fancy include free Pika H3 Flex generations each day.

Features

Pika H3 Flex. Pika describes it as "faster-than-realtime" and built for quick iteration. Its technical post says it makes up to 15 seconds of video with stereo audio in six denoising steps, takes up to 12 references and five separate audio stems, and outputs up to 4K; it is post-trained from MiniMax's open-weight MiniMax H3 (Pika).

Apps. Pika's tools are organized as apps: Video Studio, Product Ad, Swap Anything (replace an object or person in a clip), Motion Transfer and Extend Video for video; Image Studio, Edit Image and Character Studio for images; and Music, Speech and SFX studios for sound (Pika).

0:49 AI Selves. On Feb 20, 2026 Pika introduced AI Selves in its app: AI versions of a person that, in Pika's words, have a "persistent personality, emotions, and memory," post and chat across platforms on their own, and can make money for their owner.

Audio models. Pika Soundtrack, Pika Music, Pika SFX and Pika Speech were introduced on Aug 18, 2026 (Pika).

Pika for ChatGPT. Since Oct 16, 2026 a plugin brings Pika's 40 or more apps and 100 or more models into ChatGPT (Pika).

Pikaffects. Pikaffects, the name of Pika's earlier one-click video effects, does not appear on Pika's site or pricing page as of Nov 6, 2026; effects-style edits now sit in apps such as Swap Anything.

Pika vs the alternatives

Runway costs $15 a month to start and adds the Aleph 2.0 editing model and an agent; pick it for heavier editing work.

Google Flow runs Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, first on Arena, with 50 free credits a day; pick it for the best measured quality at no cost.

Hailuo is MiniMax's own app for H3, the model Pika H3 Flex is built on.

Luma bundles similar outside models behind creative agents, from $30 a month.

Kling sold directly is the place for 30-second Kling 4.0 takes.

Frequently asked questions

Is Pika free? Pika has a Free plan with no watermark but no monthly credits, so you pay for credit packs from $25 for 1,500 credits; the cheapest subscription, Starter, is $10 a month for 600 credits, as of Nov 6, 2026.

How much does Pika cost? Pika Starter is $10 a month ($8 yearly), Creator $35 ($28) and Fancy from $95 (from $76), with 600, 2,600 and 8,550 or more credits a month, as of Nov 6, 2026.

What is Pika H3 Flex? Pika H3 Flex is Pika's newest video model, announced on Oct 29, 2026: a post-trained version of MiniMax H3 that makes up to 15 seconds of video with stereo audio, with open weights.

Does Pika have an app? Yes. Pika runs on the web at pika.art, has an iOS app, and works inside ChatGPT through Pika for ChatGPT since Oct 16, 2026.

Can Pika use other AI models? Yes. Pika's plans include Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0, Veo 3.1, Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3 and Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash alongside its own models.