Kling Video 3.0 vs Kling 2.5 Turbo
Kling Video 3.0 is from Kuaishou, released February 6, 2026. Kling 2.5 Turbo is from Kling AI, released September 23, 2025.
The two vendors do not yet publish a figure both can be compared on; the full specifications are below.
Prices are the vendors’ published API rates; Elo is LMArena’s text board. Each figure is dated on its model page.
Interactive Comparison
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Free Basic tier; Standard $6.99/mo (660 credits); Pro $25.99/mo (3,000 credits); Premier $64.99/mo (8,000 credits); Ultra $127.99/mo (26,000 credits) - first-subscription monthly rates, annual billing cheaper | 25 credits per 5-second 1080p video (Kling AI) | |
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| Identity | ||
| Developer | Kuaishou | Kling AI |
| Released | Feb 2026 | Sep 2025 |
| Status | GA - launched worldwide February 6, 2026 across Kling's consumer app and developer API; no beta/preview label found on the model guide, the API capability map, or the launch announcement | Current — on Kling’s API |
| Licence | Proprietary | API only — no open weights published |
| Self-hostable | No | — |
| Cost | ||
| Price per second | API (pay-as-you-go, no subscription): No Native Audio - $0.084/s (720p), $0.112/s (1080p), $0.42/s (4K); With Native Audio (no Voice Control) - $0.126/s (720p), $0.168/s (1080p), $0.42/s (4K). The consumer app instead bills in subscription Credits rather than a flat $/s rate: No Native Audio - 6 Credits/s (720p), 8 Credits/s (1080p); Native Audio - 9 Credits/s (720p), 12 Credits/s (1080p); +2 Credits/s for optional Voice Control; a Credit costs $0.0049-$0.0106 depending on plan tier (see Cheapest plan) | $0.042 (720p), $0.07 (1080p) — Kling API |
| Cheapest plan | Standard $6.99/mo (660 credits/mo; first-subscription rate, then $8.80/mo) is the cheapest paid consumer subscription; the API has no subscription tier - pure metered per-second billing (see Price per second) | — |
| Free tier | Yes, nominally - a Basic plan ($0/mo) exists, but Kling's own plan-comparison table shows no monthly credit allotment for it (shown as "-" under both "Daily Free Credits for Subscribers" and "Monthly Credits included", benefits that only start at Standard), and free-tier output is excluded from the "Generated content is for commercial use" benefit granted to every paid tier (see Commercial rights) | — |
| Capacity | ||
| Max duration | 15 seconds per single generation (flexible duration, 3-15s); consumer subscription plans (Standard and above) separately list a "Video extension" benefit with no stated maximum extended length; Kling's own API capability map does not list Video Extension as supported for any current model, including Kling 3.0 | 10 seconds (5 or 10) |
| Max resolution | Up to native 4K (3840x2160) - Kling's own API capability map lists Kling 3.0 (kling-v3) as supporting 720p, 1080p, and 4K output; native 4K was added April 23, 2026 as a Kling 3.0 model-series upgrade, after the original February launch (whose own model-guide pricing table lists only 1080p/720p modes) | 1080p (720p, 1080p) |
| Capability | ||
| Text-to-video | Yes - primary interface accepts natural-language text prompts; supports flexible 3-15s duration plus automatic "Multi-Shot" or manually-configured "Custom Multi-Shot" storyboarding across scenes | Yes |
| Image-to-video | Yes - image-to-video and start/end-frame-to-video, plus up to 3 bound "Element Reference" images/videos per generation for locked subject/character consistency through camera movement; Kling's API capability map separately confirms First/Last Frame and Element Control support for kling-v3 | Yes |
| Native audio | Yes - synchronized dialogue, sound effects and ambient audio generated natively alongside video, in 5 languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish) plus Chinese dialects and English accents, with multi-character coreference (3+) so each character's dialogue is matched to the right speaker | No |
| Camera controls | Prompt-based only - no dedicated camera-control parameter; Kling's own API capability map explicitly lists "Camera Control" as unsupported ("-") for every current model, including Kling 3.0, across both the Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video sections | — |
| Rights | ||
| Commercial rights | Paid subscribers only - Kling's Terms of Use state that, without written permission, a user "may not use...the Output for any commercial purposes" by default (Section 4.6); the paid subscription tiers (Standard through Ultra) separately list "Generated content is for commercial use" as an included plan benefit, while that benefit is blank/absent for the free Basic tier in Kling's own plan-comparison table | — |
| Access | ||
| API | Yes - Kling AI API Platform (kling.ai/dev), model code kling-v3, documented with a full capability map and per-mode/per-resolution per-second pricing | Yes — Kling AI API |
| Chat app | Yes - Kling AI web app (kling.ai) plus native iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows apps | — |
| Cloud marketplaces | Not offered - not found on AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry (Azure), or Google Cloud Vertex AI as of this verification | — |
| Fine-tuning | Not offered - no fine-tuning/custom-training API endpoint is documented; character/subject consistency instead comes via the separate Element Library reference-image/video system (create an Element once, reuse it via Element Reference - see Image-to-video), not a base-model fine-tune | — |
