Kuaishou's prompt-first flagship: cinematic video up to 4K, and Director Mode that composes up to six shots — cuts included — in a single generation. Type a prompt below and try it.
Developer
Kuaishou
Type
Prompt-first T2V / I2V
Duration
3–15 s per clip
Max output
Up to 4K
Audio
Native · multilingual lip-sync
Director Mode
Up to 6 shots per gen
Tier here
Paid credits
Our one-line verdict: the director pick. When the brief is a scene with cuts — not a single shot — this is the only model here that edits while it generates.
Kling 3.0 — the prompt-led half of Kuaishou's 3.0 generation, rolled out at the end of January — competes on a different axis than the long-take models: instead of one unbroken 30-second shot, Director Mode composes up to six distinct shots, cuts included, inside a single generation. Add the highest resolution ceiling we host (4K) and lip-synced dialogue across five languages, and its lane is clear: finished scenes, not raw clips. Its reference-driven sibling Kling O3 gets its own page.
Judged from our own renders and the published record, revised as the facts move — that's a feature of this page, not a disclaimer.
• Director Mode.
Up to six shots — wide, medium, close, cuts between them — composed in one generation with consistent characters and setting. The closest thing to editing-while-generating in our lineup.
• 4K ceiling.
The highest output resolution we host. When the deliverable is a broadcast spot or a big screen, this is the only lane.
• Multilingual lip-sync.
Native audio with synced dialogue in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Spanish — localized versions of the same ad without re-shooting.
• In-video text rendering.
Signs, labels and on-screen titles come out legible more reliably than the field — a quiet superpower for ads and product work.
• Family naming maze.
V3 vs O3 vs 2.6, Standard vs Pro — Kuaishou's lineup takes a diagram to explain. Rule of thumb: prompt-driven work here, reference-driven work on Kling O3.
• 15-second ceiling per generation.
Six shots share at most 15 seconds. For one long unbroken take, Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0 reach 30.
• Reference control is the sibling's job.
You can feed it an image, but locking a character across many generations is what O3's MVL architecture was built for — use the right twin.
• 4K costs real money.
Per-second pricing at 4K adds up fast. Draft at 1080p, upgrade only the keeper.
Copy into the generator above, swap the brackets, render.
"Director Mode, three shots: (1) wide establishing shot of a [rainy Tokyo café] at night, (2) medium shot of a barista pouring latte art, (3) close-up of the finished cup as a hand reaches in. Warm interior vs cold street light, rain and espresso sounds throughout."
Numbering the shots is the syntax Director Mode rewards — each number becomes a cut. Name the through-line (the cup, the light) so the shots read as one scene. The demo beside the generator is this exact prompt.
"A [skincare] spokesperson in a bright studio holds the product and says, lip-synced in Japanese: '[tagline]'. Then regenerate the identical prompt with the line in Spanish."
Same prompt, swapped language — the lip-sync tracks each. This is how teams cut localization costs: one creative direction, native mouths in five markets.
"Slow push-in on a weathered storefront at golden hour. The hand-painted sign reads exactly: '[MORELLI & SONS — EST. 1962]'. A cat sleeps in the window. Street ambience, distant traffic."
'Reads exactly' plus quotation marks is the instruction that engages the text-rendering strength. Keep it under ~6 words per sign; verify in preview before a 4K spend.
Three different theories of what a generation should produce: a scene with cuts, a realistic shot, a long take. Same prompts across all three, judged by what we'd ship. All three selectable in the generator above.
the 3.0 generation's prompt-first flagship: 4K, Director Mode, multilingual lip-sync. Rolled out January 31 alongside its reference-driven twin Kling O3. The version in the generator above.
the 1080p cinematic era that built Kling's reputation for human motion, before the family split into prompt-led and reference-led lines.
the first Chinese model to trade blows with Western flagships, and the reason 'kling' became a search term outside China.
Two models in the same generation, split by workflow. Kling 3.0 (V3) is prompt-first: you describe, it directs — up to 4K, with Director Mode composing up to six shots in one generation. Kling O3 (Omni) is reference-first: you supply images or video of a subject and it locks that identity. Prompt-driven work here, reference-driven work on the O3 page.
The reference twin. Lock a character or voice from your own uploads.
The realist. When the clip has to pass as actual footage.
The long take. 30-second unbroken shots cut to your soundtrack.