Kling Video 3.0

Kuaishou

Kuaishou's Kling AI video-generation model (VIDEO 3.0 in the Kling 3.0 Model Series, released 6 Feb 2026), generating 3-15 second clips from text, image, or start/end-frame prompts with native synchronized audio in five languages and multi-shot storyboarding, plus native 4K output added 23 April 2026. Consumer plans run from a free Basic tier to Ultra at $127.99/mo (26,000 credits/mo, first-subscription rate).

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	Kling Video 3.0Kuaishou 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
Identity
Developer	Kuaishou
Released	Feb 2026
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
Licence	Proprietary
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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