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Runway's new Media Router auto-selects the best video, image, or audio model for each API request by cost, quality, or speed - the first preference-based router built for generative media instead of text.
AlayaWorld is a 15B open-weight video diffusion world model from Alaya Lab that sustains interactive, camera-controllable environments past 60 seconds.
Luma Ray3.2 is Luma AI's current flagship video model - native 16-bit HDR, 16-keyframe control, and the company's first full developer API, but still no native audio.
Pika Labs' flagship video model trades cinematic Elo rankings for the deepest creative-effects toolkit in AI video, plus a pivot into real-time agent video with PikaStream.
Haiper 2.x is the cheapest per-second AI video API on the market at $0.033/sec, now run by NetMind.AI after Haiper's consumer app shut down and its founders joined Microsoft.
Runway cut Gen-4.5 pricing in half and Kling 3.0 went first-party - normalized per-second video API pricing across nine vendors, plus the Sora API shutdown risk nobody's pricing page mentions.
MiniMax's Hailuo 02 pairs a physics-aware architecture with some of the cheapest per-second video pricing in the industry, though newer rivals have since passed it on raw quality.
Genmo's Apache 2.0 licensed 10B-parameter video generator is the largest open-weight text-to-video model released, with no managed API and roughly $0.33 per clip to self-host on an H100.
Google DeepMind's multimodal video generation model that creates 10-second clips with native audio from text, images, or video inputs - and lets you refine results through conversation.
Adobe's deal to buy Topaz Labs is less about upscaling filters and more about NeuroStream, the on-device inference engine that runs large AI video models on consumer RTX GPUs.
Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 is the first commercially available AI video model to ship native 4K at 60fps, with multilingual audio, multi-shot storyboarding, and a $0.075/s API.
xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the #1-ranked image-to-video model on Artificial Analysis, generating 720p clips with native audio at $0.14/s - 86% cheaper than Sora 2 Pro.
