# Pika

> Video, image and sound apps built on Pika and partner models

Pika is a web app for making short videos, images and sound, organized as single-purpose tools such as Video Studio, Extend Video, Color Grade and Product Shot. Underneath are its own Pika 2.5 and audio models plus partner models such as Seedance, MiniMax, Nano Banana and GPT Image. Every generation is paid in credits from a monthly plan or a bought pack.

- **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators
- **Made by:** Mellis, Inc.
- **Website:** https://pika.art
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Pika is a paid product, starting at $8 per month for 900 credits, billed annually ($10 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $8 per month for 900 credits, billed annually ($10 billed monthly) | Enough for about 7 five-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p or 112 Nano Banana 2 images; no commercial license. |
| Creator | $28 per month for 3,150 credits, billed annually ($35 billed monthly) | About 25 Seedance 2.5 clips or 393 Nano Banana 2 images, a commercial license and 8 video jobs at once. |
| Fancy | $76 per month for 8,550 credits, billed annually ($95 billed monthly) | About 70 Seedance 2.5 clips, priority queue and unlimited parallel jobs. Larger credit steps run to $880 a month. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom monthly credits for studios and teams, with dedicated support and early access to new models. |

Read from https://pika.art/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pika before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page lists yearly billing at 20% off: Starter $8 instead of $10 a month, Creator $28 instead of $35, Fancy $76 instead of $95. Source: https://pika.art/pricing

## Key features

- **Video Studio:** Makes anything from a short clip to a 30-second multi-shot video, using Pika 2.5, Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 or Gemini Omni.
- **Editing apps for footage:** Extend Video adds frames to a clip, Color Grade changes its look, and Swap Anything and Motion Transfer rework existing video.
- **Image Studio and Edit Image:** Generate images with models such as GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2 and Seedream, then swap, remove or restyle parts of them.
- **Characters and product shots:** Character Studio saves a character to reuse across creations, and Product Shot stages a product without a photoshoot.
- **Pika Soundtrack and audio:** Soundtrack scores a clip with music, ambience and sound effects matched to the action; separate studios handle speech, music and SFX.
- **MCP, ChatGPT and API:** Pika can be used from ChatGPT and other agents through its MCP server, and developers reach the same models through the Pika API Club.

## Good for

- Social and ad creators who want task-specific video and image tools
- Adding sound and music to generated clips in the same app
- Trying several partner video models without separate accounts

## Worth knowing

- There are no free credits: the Free plan includes 0 credits a month and works only with bought packs, at 60 credits per $1 ($25 for 1,500).
- The Starter plan has no commercial license; commercial use starts at Creator.
- Plan credits reset each period without rollover; top-up credits expire after 365 days and work only on pika.art, not the API, MCP or iOS app.
- Payments are non-refundable. The developer API is a separate membership at $10 a month, with $10 of credit in the first month.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Pika is a set of small video, image and sound tools, each doing one job, on top of its own model and partners like Seedance and MiniMax. Starter is $8 a month on yearly billing, the cheapest start among its video rivals. There are no free credits at all, though, and commercial use needs Creator at $28.

- **Value for money: B.** Starter is $8 a month on yearly billing ($10 monthly) for 900 credits, about 7 five-second Seedance 2.5 clips or 112 Nano Banana 2 images. That's the cheapest start among its listed video rivals, Runway at $12 and Luma at $25, but there's no commercial license until Creator at $28.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** The Free plan has 0 credits a month and only works with bought packs, at $25 for 1,500 credits. So nothing is free, and payments aren't refunded.
- **Features: B.** Video Studio for up to 30-second multi-shot videos on Pika 2.5, Seedance and MiniMax, apps to extend, regrade and rework footage, image tools, saved characters, product shots and soundtracks matched to the action. The whole job.
- **Ease of use: A.** 4.73 from about 4,300 App Store ratings, in the top band. Each tool does one thing, like Extend Video or Color Grade, so it's clear where to start.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and iPhone, with ChatGPT and other agents through MCP and a separate developer API. No Android or desktop app, and top-up credits don't work in the iPhone app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Pika's own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among AI image and video generators

- Pika's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 12 of the 21 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on ease of use (A, above 17 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $8 a month, against a middle price of $12 for the category: 2 of the 16 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Pika you would be making a video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $96 a year.

- You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make.
- You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make.
- You could not: A video editor.
- You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, ChatGPT among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 4,256 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6680155400

## Works with

ChatGPT

**Tags:** AI features, Video generation, Image generation, Video editing, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Runway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/runway): AI video, image and audio studio with its own Gen-4.5 model. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pika-vs-runway)
- [Luma](https://toolgpa.com/tools/luma-dream-machine): Creative agents for video and images, built on Luma's Ray models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/luma-dream-machine-vs-pika)
- [Hailuo AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hailuo): MiniMax's video and image generator, running its H3 model. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hailuo-vs-pika)
- [PixVerse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pixverse): AI video app built on PixVerse V6, with templates and an agent. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pika-vs-pixverse)
- [Higgsfield](https://toolgpa.com/tools/higgsfield): AI video and image suite with its own studios and many models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/higgsfield-vs-pika)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://pika.art/pricing
- https://pika.art
- https://pika.art/terms-of-service
- https://dev.pika.art

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pika
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