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Kling 3.0 (Text to Video)

Kling 3.0 text-to-video at 720p, 1080p, or 4K, with optional native audio and multi-shot output.

kling/kling-3.0/text-to-video

Capabilities

Best for

  • Cinematic text-to-video shots
  • Short social and ad clips
  • Consistent multi-shot sequences
  • Look-dev and style exploration

Not for

  • Frame-exact rotoscoping
  • Feature-length renders
  • Pixel-perfect compositing
  • Precise on-screen text

Authentication

api key header

The Pika API uses API keys to authenticate requests. Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Your API key is a secret. Don't expose it in browsers or other client-side code. Instead, call the API from your server. The signed-in playground uses a portal session and never sends your API key.

header
X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

Endpoint

asynchronous · poll for the result

POSThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/kling/kling-3.0/text-to-videogenerate endpoint
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}poll until completed
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/contentget the result URL

REST Setup

plain HTTPS

Video generation runs through the REST endpoint shown above. The API is plain JSON over HTTPS, so any HTTP client works. No provider-specific SDK is required.

Generate

POST /v1/media/kling/kling-3.0/text-to-video

Request

curl -X POST https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/kling/kling-3.0/text-to-video \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"prompt": "Whimsical surreal establishing scene of a lush green hillside garden beside a turquoise swimming pool, populated by enormous fantastical toadstool mushrooms with vivid magenta-red caps flecked with white spots and pale stems, towering over the landscape. Two elegantly dressed women in soft pastel floral summer dresses stand small at the pool edge with their backs turned, one in blue, one in butter-yellow with a woven straw tote, gazing up at the giant mushrooms; their reflections and a mushroom mirror in the still water. Dense mossy foliage and dark forest behind. Bright dreamy daylight, saturated pigmented reds and greens, warm analog film grade, lifted milky blacks, fine 35mm grain and halation, premium retro-futurist creative-studio look. 16:9 widescreen composition. No text, no logos, no wordmarks, no watermarks.",
"duration": 5,
"resolution": "720p",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"audio": "off"
}'

Response

{
"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
"status": "queued"
}

Request body

promptstringrequired
Text prompt describing the video.
durationinteger3 – 15default: 5
Video length in seconds.
resolutionenum
Output resolution.
aspect_ratioenum
Output aspect ratio.
audioenum
Whether to generate native audio.
multi_shotboolean
Allow multi-shot output from a shot-scripted prompt.

Accepted values

resolution
aspect_ratio
audio

Returns

Returns a job object with status , not the final output. Store the id from the response and poll the job until it completes.

Poll status

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}

Request

curl https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id} \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
"status": "running"
}

Poll the job by id until it reaches a terminal state: completed or failed.

The job object

idstring
Unique identifier for the job.
statusenum
The status of the job.One of:
object
The generation output. Present once the job completes.
errorstring
If the job failed, the reason for the failure.

Get result

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content

Request

curl https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
"url": "https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/files/video_8f3a2c91.mp4"
}

Once the job completes, fetch a download URL for the generated media.

Returns

urlstring
Download URL for the generated file.

Errors

shared across calls

Errors use conventional HTTP status codes with a JSON body of the shape {"message": "..."}. The one exception is validation: a request body that fails validation returns 422 with a plain-text body.

StatusWhenBody
401 UnauthorizedThe API key is missing or invalid.{"message":"Invalid API key"}
403 ForbiddenThe key is not active, or the org balance cannot cover the request.{"message":"Insufficient org balance"}
404 Not FoundNo job with that id exists in your org.{"message":"media job not found"}
409 ConflictThe result was requested before the job completed, or an Idempotency-Key header was reused with a different body.{"message":"media job is not ready"}
422 Unprocessable EntityThe request body failed validation: an invalid enum value, a missing required field, a wrong type, or malformed JSON. Returned as plain text, not JSON. A schema-valid parameter combination that cannot be priced returns the same status with a JSON message.Unprocessable entity
429 Too Many RequestsOrg limit reached: requests per minute or day, or concurrent jobs. Check the Retry-After header.{"message":"rate limit exceeded: rpm"}
503 Service UnavailableThe model rail or a backend dependency is temporarily unavailable. Retry with backoff.{"message":"media dispatch unavailable"}

Pricing

only successful runs are charged

TierPrice
720p · no audio$0.068 / second
1080p · no audio$0.090 / second
720p · with audio$0.10 / second
1080p · with audio$0.14 / second
4k$0.34 / second

Per-model pricing

Transparent, usage-based rates for every Kling (Kuaishou) model.

Kling 3.0

Video

Text to VideoCurrent

720pno audio$0.068 / sec
1080pno audio$0.09 / sec
720pwith audio$0.101 / sec
1080pwith audio$0.135 / sec
4k$0.336 / sec

Image to Video

720pno audio$0.068 / sec
1080pno audio$0.09 / sec
720pwith audio$0.101 / sec
1080pwith audio$0.135 / sec
4k$0.336 / sec

Omni Video

720pno audio$0.068 / sec
720pwith audio$0.09 / sec
1080pno audio$0.09 / sec
720pwith video input$0.101 / sec
1080pwith audio$0.112 / sec
1080pwith video input$0.135 / sec
4k$0.336 / sec

Motion Control

720p$0.101 / sec
1080p$0.135 / sec

Kling 3.0 Turbo

Video

Text to Video

720p$0.09 / sec
1080p$0.112 / sec

Image to Video

720p$0.09 / sec
1080p$0.112 / sec

Kling AI Avatar v2

Video

Avatar

v2 standard$0.045 / sec
v2 pro$0.09 / sec

Kling Lipsync

Video • Avatar

$0.012 / sec

Kling Audio

Audio

Text to Audio

$0.028 / request

Video to Audio

$0.028 / request