Best Video & Animation AI Tools

AI video generation and editing tools for creating professional videos from text or images

17 tools
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Runway

Runway

AI video generation and editing tool, supports text-to-video and video editing

Freemium
Descript

Descript

AI video and podcast editor that edits video like a document

Freemium
Pika

Pika

AI video generation tool supporting text/image to video with simple operation

Freemium
Kling AI

Kling AI

Kuaishou's AI video and image generation platform with bilingual CN/EN support

Freemium
Sora

Sora

OpenAI's former AI video generation model, discontinued in April 2026

Discontinued
Veo 2

Veo 2

Google DeepMind's AI video generation model with high-fidelity text-to-video and realistic physics simulation

API
Luma Dream Machine

Luma Dream Machine

Luma AI's video generation tool creating high-quality videos from text and images with realistic physics

FreemiumAPI
Vidu

Vidu

AI video generation tool by Shengshu Technology, supporting text-to-video and image-to-video, China's original video LLM

FreemiumAPI
Seedance

Seedance

ByteDance's AI video generation platform (International version), the international version of Jimeng AI, supporting high-fidelity text-to-video and image-to-video with realistic physics simulation

Freemium
Hailuo AI

Hailuo AI

MiniMax's AI video and image generation platform. The Hailuo 2.3 model is known for physically realistic human motion and industry-leading cost-effectiveness, supporting text-to-video and image-to-video

Freemium
PixVerse

PixVerse

AIsphere's AI video generation platform (International version). The V6 model supports multi-shot storytelling, camera control and native audio; over 100 million users worldwide with rich, easy-to-use templates and effects

Freemium
PixVerse

PixVerse

PixVerse China edition 'Paiwo AI', free to start and no VPN required. The V6 model powers text-to-video and image-to-video with smart lip-sync, cinematic camera moves and effect templates, available on web and mobile apps

Freemium
OpusClip

OpusClip

The leading AI tool for turning long videos into shorts: it auto-finds highlights, scores each clip's virality, and adds ClipAnything multimodal prompt clipping, agentic Agent Opus packaging and AI B-Roll, with one-click publishing to TikTok/Shorts/Reels — 10M+ creators served, free tier of 60 minutes a month, paid from $15/month

FreemiumAPI
CapCut

CapCut

ByteDance's international CapCut, a first-tier consumer video editor: multi-track timeline, AI cutout, auto captions and text-based editing, with Seedance 2.0 text-to-video built in from 2026 for 4K cinematic generation — free tier available, Pro at $19.99/month (prices rose after the 2025 Standard/Pro split)

Freemium
Veed.io

Veed.io

The London-built online AI video platform: signature auto-subtitles with unlimited multilingual translation, its own Fabric 1.0 talking-head model (60x cheaper than rivals, per Veed), AI avatars and text-to-video aggregating Veo 3.1 — free tier available, Lite from $18/month billed annually

FreemiumAPI
Remotion

Remotion

Make videos programmatically with React. Use React to create real MP4 videos, motion graphics, and animations.

FreeOpen SourceAPI
Hyperframes

Hyperframes

Write HTML. Render video. Built for AI agents. An HTML-to-video rendering engine for AI agents.

FreeOpen SourceAPI
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