Kling AI
Kuaishou’s video model: image-to-video and text-to-video by credits. AI-powered tool, with a free plan; runs on web, mobile. The stack builder picks it for AI video clips.
What it is known for
- Strengths: native 4K video with sound; text-to-video and image-to-video generation; a canvas with node editing and batch generation.
- For: advertising, film and video, music video, e-commerce and device teams.
- Runs on: web app, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and API.
- Learning curve: the page does not say.
- Works with: MCP and CLI tools and API platform.
Read on October 9, 2026 from kling.ai.
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | Free daily credits |
| Standard | $10/mo | 660 credits a month; a first-month offer of $6.99 is shown |
| Pro | $37/mo | 3,000 credits a month |
| Premier | $92/mo | 8,000 credits a month |
| Ultra | $180/mo | 26,000 credits a month |
Checked by hand against kling.ai/app/membership/membership-plan on October 9, 2026; confidence high. Prices are monthly in US dollars unless the row says otherwise; the builder counts the plan it starts on, Standard.
When the stack builder picks it
The builder reads each job's rules from the top and takes the first step whose conditions hold and whose plan fits the money left. Kling AI is named in these steps:
- AI video clips, step 2 of 3, when less than $15 is left for it: the free plan; the step also names Runway, Pika and LTX Studio, and the best score takes it.
- AI video clips, step 3 of 3, otherwise: Standard ($10/mo); the step also names Runway, Higgsfield, Luma Dream Machine, Pika, LTX Studio and InVideo AI, and the best score takes it.
The rules are public in stack-rules.json, and how the stack builder scores explains the tie-break.
Alternatives the same rules name
- Runway: Generates and edits video clips from text or images. From free.
- Pika: Short-form video effects, lip-sync and clips from text or images. From free.
- LTX Studio: A storyboard-to-film pipeline on Lightricks’ LTX video models. From free.
- Higgsfield: One app over many video and image models, with camera-motion presets. From $49/mo, or $39/mo billed yearly.
- Luma Dream Machine: Luma’s Ray video models and image generation in one app. From $30/mo, or $25/mo billed yearly.
- InVideo AI: Makes a whole video from a text prompt, with AI clips, a timeline editor and shared editing. From $30/mo, or $15/mo billed yearly.
Signals and what people say
- App Store: 4.7 from 31,582 ratings, as of October 9, 2026
- Hacker News, 30 days to October 9, 2026: 2 stories
Change log
- October 10, 2026: the Best offer plan is now called Ultra, as on kling.ai/app/membership/membership-plan.
- October 9, 2026: added to the tool list; plans and prices first recorded from kling.ai/app/membership/membership-plan.
Logo: Nameryn monogram (no free mark on file), CC0 1.0.