Hunyuan Video 混元视频 vs Kling
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Hunyuan Video 混元视频
Tencent's open-weights text-to-video model
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Kling
Kuaishou-spun AI video model, now an $18B independent rival to Sora.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | 66 credits per day for video generation |
| Paid from | — | Standard $10/mo; Pro $37/mo; Premier $92/mo; Ultra $180/mo (up from ~$128/mo in Aug 2025) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 100M+ global registered users (60M reported Jan 2026 at CES) |
| Founded | — | — |
| Maker | Tencent | Kuaishou Technology |
| Verdict | Hunyuan Video is the reference open-weights video model: Tencent ships the actual weights, so teams can self-host, fine-tune, and build on it rather than renting a black-box endpoint. The December 2024 original (13B para... |
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... |
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