Hailuo Video 海螺视频 vs Jimeng AI 即梦 (Dreamina) vs Kling vs Vidu 维度AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Hailuo Video 海螺视频
MiniMax's text-to-video generation
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Kling
Kuaishou-spun AI video model, now an $18B independent rival to Sora.
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Vidu 维度AI
Shengshu Technology's text-to-video product
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | 66 credits per day for video generation | Limited free generations (verify current allotment on vidu.com) |
| Paid from | — | — | Standard $10/mo; Pro $37/mo; Premier $92/mo; Ultra $180/mo (up from ~$128/mo in Aug 2025) | ~$0.0375/second generation (Vidu 2.0); subscriptions up to ~$84/month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | 100M+ global registered users (60M reported Jan 2026 at CES) | — |
| Founded | 2024 | — | — | 2024 |
| Maker | — | ByteDance | Kuaishou Technology | — |
| Verdict | Hailuo Video, from China's MiniMax, is one of the stronger AI video generators, well regarded for natural camera motion and prompt adherence in short clips, and competitive with Kling and Runway on visual quality for the... |
Seedream 5.0 Pro (shipped July 2026) and Seedance 2.0 make this ByteDance's most complete creative stack: native 2K image output, on-image text rendering in ten-plus languages, point-and-lasso precision editing, and a vi... |
Kling, from Kuaishou, ranks among the strongest AI video generators available: Kling 3.0 (February 2026) added native 4K at 60fps, 15-second clips, and synced multilingual audio, with motion and physics that hold up bett... |
Vidu, from China's ShengShu Technology, is a fast-rising AI video model offering text-, image- and reference-to-video with native audio and notably quick generation. Its reference-to-video feature, which keeps characters... |
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