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Kling AI
by Kuaishou
Kling AI is a text-to-video and image-to-video generation platform from Kuaishou, known for producing smooth, physically realistic video clips up to two minutes long. Its motion quality and ability to maintain character consistency across frames place it among the best AI video generators available. Filmmakers, advertisers, and social media creators use Kling to generate cinematic footage that would otherwise require expensive production.
Kling AI features and capabilities, including which plan they need and how they compare in the CanIUse matrix.
kuaishouAdded 2025-01-01Catalog rank 9
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✨ Modalities
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Yes, requires free plan. VIDEO 3.0 is prompt-led: text-to-video with scene, dialogue, and camera direction in the prompt.Text Input
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Yes, requires free plan. Image-to-video and start/end-frame-to-video are documented for VIDEO 3.0; Omni adds multi-image and video element reference.Image Upload / Vision
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Yes, requires free plan. The product homepage lists IMAGE 3.0, text-to-image, image-to-image, and an AI photo editor alongside video.Image Generation
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No. Native audio is generated on the clip. There is no live conversational voice loop.Voice Mode
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Partial. Omni can take a video element as a reference. Credits policy lists video extension as a premium-only function, not a Q&A-on-upload product.Video Understanding
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Yes, requires plus plan. Kling text-to-video and image-to-video in the web studio and apps.Video Generation
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No. Inputs are prompts, images, and video/element references. PDF/DOCX ingestion is not documented.File Upload (PDF, DOCX)
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No. Not a code-execution product.Code Execution
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Partial. VIDEO 3.0 Omni adds Element Voice Control to bind a character’s voice. That is a reference, not a general audio-file transcribe feature.Audio Input
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Partial. Element Library 3.0 and the studio timeline are a filmmaking canvas, not a chat artifact panel.Canvas / Artifact Editor
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No. No computer-use / screen-control product.Screen Sharing / Computer Use
🧠 Memory & Context
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No. No cross-session user memory layer is documented. Credits and membership are the persistence story.Persistent Memory
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No. Not an LLM context-window product. Clip length is 3–15 seconds on VIDEO 3.0.Large Context Window
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No. No global instruction profile. Each job is a prompt plus optional references.Custom Instructions
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Unknown. The studio keeps generated work, but a searchable chat-history product was not confirmed.Conversation History
🔌 Integrations
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No. Does not browse the live web.Web Search / Browsing
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No. No third-party plugin marketplace is documented for Kling itself.Plugins / Extensions
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Yes, requires pro plan. Kling publishes an Open Platform (document-api / global/dev). API billing is prepaid resource packages, not the consumer membership.API Access
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Unknown. No first-party Kling Zapier app was checked.Zapier Integration
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No. No Custom GPT-style Kling agents.Custom GPTs / Bots
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Unknown. Team spaces share credits. Live multiplayer editing was not documented.Real-time Collaboration
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No. No live social firehose. Community clone-and-try is not a social-data API.Live Social Data Integration
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No. Not a cited-search product.Live Citation Mapping
👨💻 Developer
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No. You submit generate jobs. There is no tool-calling chat interface.Function Calling
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No. Clips are returned when generation finishes. Failed jobs refund credits rather than streaming tokens.Streaming Responses
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No. No custom-weight training product is documented.Fine-Tuning
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No. Not an embeddings API.Embeddings API
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No. Output is video or stills, not JSON schema.Structured Output (JSON)
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No. Not a chain-of-thought LLM. VIDEO 3.0 is a generator with multi-shot planning in the prompt.Reasoning / Thinking Mode
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No. Hosted by Kuaishou. Weights are not for local download.Local Execution
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No. Closed model.Open Weights
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No. Not a multi-agent orchestrator.Multi-Agent Orchestration
📱 Platforms
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Yes, requires free plan. The international studio is a browser app at klingai.com / kling.ai.Web App
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Yes, requires free plan. Official App Store app “Kling AI: AI Image&Video Maker” (id 6738049229). Listing covers text/image-to-video up to 15s and extension.iOS App
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Unknown. Credits policy refers to a Kling AI APP. A Google Play listing was not opened this round.Android App
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Unknown. No native desktop client is documented on the marketing site. Web is the desktop path.Desktop App
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No. No official Chrome Web Store extension is documented.Chrome Extension
🔒 Privacy
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Unknown. Needs a current DPA/privacy-policy read, not a guess from the model pages.GDPR Compliant
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Unknown. Training opt-out was not found on the credits policy or VIDEO 3.0 comparison guide.Opt Out of Data Training
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Partial. Credits policy defines Team Memberships and Enterprise Users with admin-allocated credits. That is not a published ZDR/SSO suite.Enterprise Privacy Mode
💼 Workspaces
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Unknown. Team/personal spaces exist for credits. A foldered project model was not confirmed.Projects / Folders