Read Pika 2.5’s resolutions and per-second API price.
Pika 2.5 is Pika’s current video model, sold on crisp expressive motion at up to 1080p. It is one of the few video models where the per-second API price is published next to the resolution — $0.04 a second at 720p and $0.06 at 1080p — which makes a rough budget possible before you generate anything.
Capabilities and specifications on this page come from Pika’s own site and its API model portal. Prices, credit allowances and rate limits are set by the vendor and change without notice. Pika publishes no release date, frame rate or aspect-ratio list for version 2.5, and those gaps are left as gaps here rather than estimated.
What Pika 2.5 and Pikaffects produce
These are the three stills Pika’s own API portal publishes as the posters for its models and effects: Pika 2.5 image-to-video, the Pika 2.5 Keyframe workflow, and Pikaffects video-to-video. Each is served from Pika’s own CDN.
Example images belong to Pika and are reproduced with credit: Pika API model catalogue
How Pika describes 2.5
Pika sells a family rather than a single model: the 2.5 generator, a keyframe workflow for controlled transitions, and a set of physics effects for existing footage. All three are priced the same way, per second of output.
Two resolutions, two clip lengths
Pika 2.5 outputs at 720p or 1080p and in five- or ten-second clips. Those four combinations are the whole output space the vendor documents; Pika publishes no frame rate and no aspect-ratio list for the model.
Per-second API pricing
The API portal lists $0.04 per second at 720p and $0.06 per second at 1080p. That is a price per second of finished video, not per attempt, so a ten-second 1080p clip costs about $0.60 of generation before you count retries.
Four web plans, metered in credits
Basic is free, Standard $8, Pro $28 and Fancy $76 a month billed annually, carrying 80, 700, 2,300 and 6,000 credits. On the free tier Pika 2.5 is capped at 480p, which is a real limitation rather than a watermark.
Published rate limits
The API allows 60 requests a minute and 10 concurrent jobs. Those numbers decide whether you queue work or fan it out, and Pika states them rather than leaving them to be discovered.
You keep your prompts and inputs
Pika’s API terms state that you retain ownership of your prompts and inputs, which is the relevant sentence for anyone generating client footage or source imagery they do not want reused.
What Pika documents
Pika’s API portal is the most specific surface it publishes: each model and effect carries a description, a badge set and a price. This section follows that catalogue.
Image-to-video at up to 1080p
Pika 2.5’s own description is turning photos into dynamic video at up to 1080p. Its badges list New, Image to Video, Effects and HD.
Keyframe control with Pikaframes
The Keyframe workflow animates between two and five ordered keyframes, which turns a transition into something you specify rather than something you prompt for.
Physics effects on existing footage
Pikaffects applies playful physics effects to a video you already have — the video-to-video path, priced on the same per-second basis as generation.
An API Club tier
Pika prices API access separately from the web plans, at $10 a month for the Club tier, with generation billed per second on top.
Commercial use of API output
Pika’s API terms retain ownership of prompts and inputs with the user. Read the current terms before shipping client work, because the language is in the API documentation rather than on the marketing pages.
Documented limits
60 requests a minute and 10 concurrent jobs. For batch work those are the two numbers that decide how fast a queue drains.
Documented specifications
Every row below is stated on Pika’s own site or in its API model catalogue. Rows Pika does not publish are marked as not published rather than filled in.
- Developer
- Pika
- Current model
- Pika 2.5
- Also in the family
- Pika 2.5 Keyframe · Pikaffects
- Output resolution
- 720p and 1080p
- Clip lengths
- 5 and 10 seconds
- API rate at 720p
- $0.04 per second
- API rate at 1080p
- $0.06 per second
- Web plans, monthly
- Basic $0 · Standard $8 · Pro $28 · Fancy $76
- Monthly credits
- 80 · 700 · 2,300 · 6,000
- Free-tier resolution
- Capped at 480p
- API rate limit
- 60 requests per minute
- API concurrency
- 10 jobs
- API Club
- $10 per month
- Prompt and input ownership
- Retained by the user
- Release date for 2.5
- Not published
- Frame rate
- Not published
- Aspect ratios
- Not published
Documented access channels
Pika delivers the model through its own web app and through an API whose catalogue is public — the catalogue is also where the three stills above come from.
Pika web app
The consumer surface: generation, the effect families and the four subscription tiers. Pika 2.5 is the current model here.
OpenPika API model catalogue
Pika’s own developer portal, listing the models and effects with their prices, badges and descriptions, and the source of the three example stills on this page.
OpenPika pricing
The web plans, their monthly credit allowances and the annual rates Pika publishes on its own site.
OpenPika API documentation
Endpoints, parameters and the terms covering prompt and input ownership, for teams integrating generation into a pipeline.
OpenPika 2.5 FAQ
How much does Pika’s API cost?
The API portal lists $0.04 per second of output at 720p and $0.06 per second at 1080p, on top of the API Club subscription at $10 a month.
What resolution and length can Pika 2.5 produce?
720p or 1080p, in five- or ten-second clips. Pika does not publish a frame rate or an aspect-ratio list for the model. The free plan caps Pika 2.5 at 480p.
How much do the Pika plans cost?
Basic is free, Standard $8, Pro $28 and Fancy $76 a month billed annually, with 80, 700, 2,300 and 6,000 credits. Credits are the web-app meter; API generation is billed per second separately.
Are there rate limits on the API?
Yes, and Pika publishes them: 60 requests a minute with 10 concurrent jobs. Those two numbers govern how quickly a batch queue can drain.
What is Pikaffects, and is it part of Pika 2.5?
Pikaffects is one of Pika’s effect families — playful physics applied to an existing video. It sits alongside Pika 2.5 and Pika 2.5 Keyframe in Pika’s own API catalogue, and is priced the same way, per second.
Can I use Pika output commercially?
Pika’s API terms state that you retain ownership of your prompts and inputs. Because that wording lives in the API documentation rather than on the marketing pages, read the current terms yourself before shipping client work.
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