Pika capabilities

Pikaffects are Pika's built-in, preset AI video effects that apply dramatic physical transformations to a subject in an image or clip -- e.g. squish it, melt it, inflate it, dissolve it, explode it, or 'cake-ify' it -- designed for scroll-stopping, social-ready moments without prompt engineering.

Pikaframes is Pika's keyframe-style workflow for generating longer, more controlled clips: the user supplies start and end (and optionally intermediate) frames, and Pika generates the motion that transitions between them, allowing guided changes over a longer timeline than a single base generation.

Pikascenes lets users combine multiple input 'ingredients' -- such as several reference images of people, objects, or settings -- into a single coherent generated video scene, so specified subjects appear together with consistent lighting and perspective rather than being generated from a prompt alone.

Pika uses a credit-based subscription model across four tiers: Free ($0, 80 monthly credits), Standard ($8/mo billed yearly, 700 credits), Pro ($28/mo billed yearly, 2,300 credits), and Fancy ($76/mo billed yearly, 6,000 credits). Paid plans remove the watermark and grant commercial-use rights; the Free plan keeps a watermark and is not licensed for commercial use.

Pika generates short cinematic video clips from a text prompt, from a still image, or from a text prompt combined with an image. Pika 2.5 is the current flagship model, producing more realistic visuals, smoother motion, and closer prompt adherence than earlier Pika versions.