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Kling's own launch post, embedded in Tom's Guide, is dated 6 June 2024 ("Open access! Generate 120s Video with FPS30 1080P"); ScriptByAI's[6] timeline also puts the start of application-based testing on 6 June. Wikipedia and the formal press release say 10 June, and the international web release came on 24 July.
10 June 2024: a public demo in China behind a waitlist that lets early testers make 1080/30p videos up to two minutes long, with 'AI giveaways like smoothing and minor artifacts'.[1]
10 June 2024: up to two minutes at 1080p and 30 fps, 3D face and body reconstruction, and demos judged better than Runway and Pika.[1]
Keeps the 8 June original plus updates: the 7 July web version with ten-second clips, camera control and negative prompts, and the 24 July worldwide launch with 66 free daily credits.[1]
24 July 2024 hands-on: five-second 720p clips in a minute or two, physics on a par with Runway Gen-3 and Sora, but politically sensitive prompts are refused.[1]
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.0 Standard text-to-video | $0.045 per second (USD) |
Price as listed on the fal.ai endpoint page, read 24 Oct 2026; fal is a third-party API host and prices change. · source
The results, while still carrying some AI giveaways like smoothing and minor artifacts, are impressively varied, with a promising amount of coherence.
The most impressive part of the videos is the photorealism.
The quality was superior to Runway and Pika in terms of realism and consistency, and was on par with Sora
Kling appears to simulate physics, like the rustling of leaves and flowing water, about as well as video-generating models like AI startup Runway’s Gen-3 and OpenAI’s Sora.
| Forget Sora — Kling is a killer new AI video model that just dropped and I’m impressed · Jun 7, 2024 | 0.70 |
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| The TikTok of AI video? Kling AI is a scarily impressive new OpenAI Sora rival · Jun 10, 2024 | 0.40 |
| Sora Who? Kling Is the New AI Video Generator Everyone Is Talking About · Jun 10, 2024 | 0.70 |
| A new Chinese video-generating model appears to be censoring politically sensitive topics · Jul 24, 2024 | 0.40 |
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