Zhipu Qingying 智谱清影 (CogVideoX) vs Kling vs Hailuo Video 海螺视频 vs Vidu 维度AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Zhipu Qingying 智谱清影 (CogVideoX)
Zhipu's free video generator, built on the open-weight CogVideoX model
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Kling
Kuaishou-spun AI video model, now an $18B independent rival to Sora.
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Hailuo Video 海螺视频
MiniMax's text-to-video generation
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Vidu 维度AI
Shengshu Technology's text-to-video product
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7 / 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 | — | Kuaishou Technology | — | — |
| Verdict | Qingying's real significance isn't the consumer app — it's that Zhipu released the underlying CogVideoX weights on GitHub under a permissive license (Apache 2.0 for the 2B variant) rather than keeping them closed like So... |
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... |
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... |
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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