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Kling

Model family

Kuaishou's video and image generation family, served through the Kling developer platform.

At a glance

Current release

From the release row Kling 3.0. Kling 3.0 at 720p without native audio: 0.6 units at the $0.14 list unit price. 1080p $0.112/s; with audio $0.126-$0.168/s; 4K $0.42/s. Prepaid packages lower the unit price.

Family record: Official documentation · 5 Sep 2026

Built on it

1 product in this catalogue names this family on their own pages.

• Kling AI Developer API

  Kuaishou

  Official documentation · 5 Sep 2026

Releases

• Kling

  10 Jun 2024 · Press release ↗

  First Kling video model; the release calls it the 'recently launched' Kling Large Model, so the launch may be a few days earlier.

• Kling 1.5

  Sep 2024 · Press release ↗

  Upgrade to 1080p output.

• Kling 2.0

  15 Apr 2025 · Press release ↗

  Global debut of the Kling 2.0 video and image generation models; the 2.1 lineup followed on 2025-05-26.

• Kling 2.5 Turbo

  19 Sep 2025 · Official documentation ↗

  Upgraded text- and image-to-video at a lower price. Kuaishou's IR release gives September 23; the lab's own release note is earlier.

• Kling O1

  1 Dec 2025 · Official documentation ↗

  Unified multimodal video model: 'Input anything. Understand everything. Generate any vision.'

• Kling 2.6

  3 Dec 2025 · Press release ↗

  Kling's first model with simultaneous audio-visual generation.

• Kling 3.0

  31 Jan 2026 · Official documentation ↗

  Video 3.0, Video 3.0 Omni, Image 3.0 and Image 3.0 Omni, with clips up to 15 s and native audio. Kling 4.0 is announced for October 2026 (Flash in limited early access from 2026-09-28) and is not yet on the API, so it has no row.