Video & Motion
Short-form video generation and motion tools.
Kling AI
Daily free generations. Among the more generous consumer video tiers.
Text/image-to-video with a workable free daily cap. Video is still the stingiest category overall.
Luma Dream Machine
Monthly credits for short clips. Quality is high; volume is not.
Image-to-video with stronger camera grammar than most free tiers. Spend credits on hero shots only.
Runway
Trial credits. Treat as a test of Gen-3/Aleph, not a production allotment.
Industry reference for AI video. Free is a taste. Paid is where the editor actually lives.
Pika
Weekly credits aimed at short social clips and effects.
Beginner video tool with effects (inflate, crush, etc.). Useful junk-food motion, not a film pipeline.
Google Flow
Google Labs video (Veo line). Allowance sits inside a Google account; caps move.
Best no-card video path if you already live in Gemini. Same login as ImageFX/Flow experiments.
Wan
Open weights. Unlimited if you have the GPU. Also offered as paid APIs.
Open-source text/image-to-video. The local/video escape hatch when cloud credits die.