Veo 3.1 Fast the default video engine
Among the engines that generate picture and sound together, this is the cheapest per second of finished material. That is why it is our default: a four-second clip costs two credits, arrives in a minute and sounds like a recording rather than an animation with no track under it.
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Specification
- Built by
- Starts from
- a written brief · your own photo
- Aspect ratios
- 9:16 · 16:9
- Clip length
- 4 / 6 / 8 s
- Resolution
- 720p
- Sound
- switchable
- Reference photos
- 1
- Render time
- about 60s
- Cost
- from 2 to 4 credits per clip
What it is good for
- Two credits a clip
- The shortest clip is two credits, so the forty you start with buy twenty of them. When you are testing the first three seconds of an ad, what matters is how many attempts you can afford to throw away.
- Sound generated with the picture
- Not laid under finished footage but generated alongside it — room tone, footsteps, a splash. You switch it on or you do not.
- Starts from your photo too
- The same engine animates an uploaded product photo, not just a brief. Then it is your item moving in frame rather than something from the same category.
When to pick something else
Eight seconds is the ceiling, and that is short for anything with a narrative — Seedance, Wan and PixVerse go to ten, and for a presenter speaking Polish there is HeyGen Video Agent. It takes only vertical or landscape, no square and no 4:3, so a format for a product card has to be cropped. And if the clip should look more expensive than it cost, full Veo 3.1 is clearly better — just almost three times the price.
See every modelHow to brief this model
The things this engine handles differently from the rest. The habits that hold for every model are collected separately, in the help centre.
- Write "no voiceover" into the brief. This engine generates sound along with the picture, and left alone it adds a voice saying things nobody approved.
- Order sound that suits the frame: room tone, rustling paper, a drop of water. A second of audio costs the same, and a clip without it looks unfinished.
- Upload a first frame when the item on screen has to be yours. That is the difference between this version and the full Veo 3.1, which starts from the brief alone.
- Describe one camera move, not three. Four seconds is enough for a push in or an orbit — not for both.
- Choose portrait or landscape. This model has neither square nor 4:3, so a frame for a product card will have to be cropped.
Questions about this model
Other models
- Veo 3.1The best picture and camera move on the roster. And the priciest second.
- Kling 3 ProHands and objects in motion. For unboxing and for showing a product off.
- Seedance 2.5Nine reference photos. The only engine that holds your product through the shot.
- Seedance 2.0The Seedance picture at two thirds of the price. For clips up to eight seconds.
- Wan 3.0 PrimeTexture up close: cream, fabric, liquid. Five ratios, two credits a clip.
- Gemini Omni FlashThe cheapest clip whose sound cannot be switched off.
- MiniMax H3 MaxSlow motion and moving material. The highest resolution alongside LTX.
- Grok Imagine 1.5A strong grade and night scenes. For ads that are meant to be loud.
- Happy HorseFood, flowers, interiors. Natural light and a calm frame.
- LTX 2.3The only 1080p on the roster. And one of the two cheapest seconds.
- PixVerse V6One credit a clip. The cheapest video second in the whole studio.
- HeyGen Video AgentThe only engine where somebody speaks Polish. Up to 60 seconds of UGC.
Try this model on your own product
Sign up without a card and get 40 credits. Switching model is one click, so you can send the same brief through several of them and keep the best frame.