Let's quickly review Kling AI today, a video generation tool developed by Kuaishou, a Chinese tech company. You can create videos from text or images, up to 2 minutes long, 1080p, 30fps. It has only launched globally a few days ago so we're all still exploring it's capabilities and peculiarities, so this post will be updated once I learn more. Here is my first showcase video:
Piglet Flying | Short Video Made in Kling
This short video featuring a happy piglet flying was made with Kling's image-to-video technology. Based on Midjourney's images. Music by Udio.
Kling AI Prompt Tips
People are still exploring this new platform, so you can't conclusively provide tips on prompt structure, but pay attention to Kling's own showcased prompt examples right at your video generation window.
Kling Ai Prompt Hints: Screenshot
Click the refresh 'circled arrows' button to see more. These are prompts that have produced some of the best results, in fact, you can currently see their outputs in the showcase gallery on the front page (or dashboard):
Kling Gallery Showcasing Best Videos
Hover over any of the videos to see the prompt that was used to create it, and the 'Clone & Try' button. Join Reddit communities dedicated to Kling AI where we share our works and discuss the process. From the start, I can see that this is a very promising platform. It's not perfect, just like the rest of them, but definitely top of the pile at the moment.
Kling AI Pricing
Kling's Membership Options, Screenshot
Standard
Pro
Premier
Price per month
$5
$18.50
$46
Credits per month
660
3000
8000
Max generations
19 HQ Videos or 66 Standard Videos or 3300 Images
86 HQ Videos or 300 Standard Videos or 3000 Images
228 HQ Videos or 800 Standard Videos or 8000 Images
Cost per 100 credits
$0.76
$0.62
$0.58
Kling AI FAQ
Kling AI is a video generation tool developed by Kuaishou, a Chinese tech company. You can create videos from text or images, up to 2 minutes long, 1080p, 30fps. Kling AI is famous for its realistic animations, using diffusion transformer architecture and 3D face and body reconstruction to make it more realistic and motion accurate.
There is a free tier on Kling's website. Anyone can create an account using just their email, no Chinese number required any more to gain access to Kling. Free account allows for 66 daily credits, conditional upon user signing in on that day. Credits do not automatically drop daily, unless you sign in. On free account, you are limited to creating SD quality videos 5 seconds long. Text-to-video or Image-to-video, but no end image (no keyframes) and no extensions. SD video costs 10 credits, HQ images cost 0.80 per batch of four. Both videos and images are watermarked.
If you're on a paid plan, you have an option to download your images and videos without Kling's watermarks. To do that, open your image or video page by clicking on them, then simply hover over the download icon (down arrow) to reveal a pop-up with 2 options: with or without watermark.
Options to save without watermark
Yes, extending videos by 5 seconds is available, but not indefinitely, up to 3 minutes long in total for any given video (it says so on the pricing plans overview). You can extend without providing any guidelines (Auto-Extend), or supply a text prompt for your extension (Customized Extend).
There are three paid membership options, which unlock the high quality video generation and some other advanced features not included into free plan. Standard plan is currently at $5 per month, offering 660 credits or 19 high definition videos, Pro with 3000 credits is at $18.50 offering 86 HQ Videos and Premier at $46 with 8000 credits will provide 228 HQ Videos.
Buying a new Kling subscription does NOT refill your credits
Initially, you could have 2 concurrent membership plans if, for instance, you purchased Pro on top of Standard, like I have, they would stack up and renew on their own time, giving you more credits each month. But as of 11th of August the policy has obviously changed and plans do not add up any more, but instead they consider you a higher tier uer first, then your lower tier plan starts.
Yes, top up credits are available, but they're times more expensive than those included into membership plans. For example, $5 will only buy you 300 credits, and $200 will get you 16000 due to current 'flash deal'. It is cheaper to have a larger plan than having to buy individual credits. But it's nice to have this option available. Not all AI video platforms offer it.
