{ "slug": "pika-labs", "name": "Pika Labs", "category": "Video & Audio", "website_url": "https://pika.art", "entry_url": "https://recatools.com/ai-directory/pika-labs/", "schema": "video/v1", "oldest_verified_on": "2026-08-20", "versions": [ { "id": "pika-2-5", "label": "Pika 2.5", "status": "current", "released_at": null, "is_flagship": true, "fields": { "max_duration_s": { "state": "known", "value": 10, "scope": "image-to-video only; text-to-video caps at 5", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pika-2.5/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "duration_choices": { "state": "known", "value": [ 5, 10 ], "scope": "image-to-video: 5 or 10, default 5. TEXT-to-video is fixed at 5 seconds — the two modes of the same model differ", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pika-2.5/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "max_resolution": { "state": "known", "value": "1080p", "scope": "720p or 1080p, default 1080p", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pika-2.5/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "native_audio": { "state": "unpublished", "value": null, "scope": null, "note": "no audio parameter in the Pika 2.5 request schema. Pika ships audio as separate models (Music, SFX, Speech, Soundtrack) rather than as synchronised output from the video model", "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pika-2.5/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "modes": { "state": "known", "value": [ "t2v", "i2v" ], "scope": null, "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms.txt", "source_title": "Pika API — model and operation index (llms.txt)", "verified_on": "2026-08-21" }, "api_available": { "state": "known", "value": true, "scope": "First-party self-serve API at dev.pika.art: own account, own key (X-API-Key or Bearer), own billing, base URL api.dev.pika.art. Access is membership-gated — llms.txt sends you to \"manage membership\" and the job envelope has a membership_required error code. RATE LIMITS EXIST BUT NO FIGURE IS PUBLISHED: a 429 is documented as \"rate or concurrency limit reached\", spanning requests per minute, requests per day and concurrent jobs, per org, with Retry-After. ⚠️ The catalogue is mostly NOT Pika: 107 operations across 13 vendor namespaces, of which only the 11 under pika/ are Pika's own — the rest are ByteDance, Google, Kling, MiniMax, OpenAI, xAI and others. Listicles routinely attribute Seedance's 4K and 30-second specs to Pika because both sit in the same catalogue.", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms.txt", "source_title": "Pika API — llms.txt (catalogue, auth, error semantics)", "verified_on": "2026-08-22" }, "price": { "state": "known", "value": { "per": "second", "amount": 0.04, "currency": "USD" }, "scope": "720p; 1080p is $0.06/s. Only successful generations are charged", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pika-2.5/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "negative_prompt": { "state": "known", "value": true, "scope": "a first-party negative_prompt string on Pika's own API; a seed parameter is also exposed", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pika-2.5/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "max_input_images": { "state": "known", "value": 1, "scope": "the image parameter takes a single URL", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pika-2.5/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" } }, "absent_fields": [ "min_duration_s", "fps", "price_cn", "open_weights", "license", "watermark", "region_availability" ], "constraints": [], "oldest_verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, { "id": "pika-2-5-keyframe", "label": "Pika 2.5 Keyframe (Pikaframes)", "status": "current", "released_at": null, "is_flagship": false, "fields": { "max_resolution": { "state": "known", "value": "1080p", "scope": "720p or 1080p, default 1080p", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pikaframes/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Keyframe, Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "modes": { "state": "known", "value": [ "fl2v" ], "scope": "consecutive pairs of the supplied keyframes become transitions, generalising first/last-frame beyond two frames", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pikaframes/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Keyframe, Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "price": { "state": "known", "value": { "per": "second", "amount": 0.04, "currency": "USD" }, "scope": "720p; $0.06/s at 1080p", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pikaframes/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Keyframe, Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "negative_prompt": { "state": "known", "value": true, "scope": null, "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pikaframes/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Keyframe, Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" }, "max_input_images": { "state": "known", "value": 5, "scope": "2-5 ordered keyframe image URLs; durations over 5 seconds require exactly 2 keyframes", "note": null, "source_url": "https://dev.pika.art/llms/pika/pikaframes/image-to-video", "source_title": "Pika API — Pika 2.5 Keyframe, Image to Video", "verified_on": "2026-08-20" } }, "absent_fields": [ "max_duration_s", "min_duration_s", "duration_choices", "fps", "native_audio", "api_available", "price_cn", "open_weights", "license", "watermark", "region_availability" ], "constraints": [], "oldest_verified_on": "2026-08-20" } ] }