Pika Labs vs Luma AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Pika Labs
AI video generator known for physics-bending Pikaffects
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Luma AI
AI video generation with Dream Machine — and the leading tool for turn...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 80 credits per month (480p resolution, watermarked, no commercial use) | 30 free video generations per month |
| Paid from | $8/month (Standard) | Plus $30/mo (monthly, $25/mo annual); Pro $90/mo; Ultra $300/mo |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ users | 5m+ registered users (as of August 2024 milestone; current figures reported higher) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
| Maker | Demi Guo, Chenlin Meng | Amit Jain, Alex Yu, Olivia Seow, Brandon Trabue |
| Verdict | Pika built its following on Discord with genuinely odd, likeable effects — melt, inflate, or explode an object with one click via Pikaffects — before moving to a standalone web app at pika.art. Pika 2.5 is the current mo... |
Luma AI pairs a top-tier NeRF/Gaussian-splatting 3D capture app with Ray 3, a video model built around physically plausible motion — water, cloth and object weight behave correctly, which still separates it from Runway a... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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