Pika alternatives

Pika is an aI video generator, $10/mo ($8/mo yearly). These 12 tools are in the same category and share the most vendor-stated features with it.

1 of the 12 publish a lower price than Pika's $8/month: Viggle AI ($7.99).

Why each one is here

• Luma Dream Machine: Luma's creative platform (Dream Machine / Luma Agents) that runs Luma and third-party image and video models on a shared credit balance. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC, extend video.
• Magic Hour: All-in-one AI video, image and audio app (face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, templates) with API access on paid plans. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC, extend video.
• PixVerse: Text- and image-to-video generator with its own PixVerse models, templates and an app, popular for short social clips. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC, extend video.
• Pollo AI: Credit-based AI video and image platform with its own Pollo models plus third-party models such as Kling and Seedance. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC, extend video.
• DeeVid AI: AI video and image generator offering popular third-party models on credit plans, with 720p-1080p output. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC.
• Higgsfield: Multi-model video and image studio (Kling, Veo, Seedance, Nano Banana and its own DoP and Speak models) with cinematic camera presets, ads and AI-influencer tools. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC.
• LTX Studio: Storyboard-to-video studio from Lightricks with its LTX video models, storyboards, pitch decks and node-based Flows. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC.
• Midjourney Video: Midjourney's image-to-video feature: animates an image (one of yours or a Midjourney render) into 5-second clips, on the same subscription as its image generator. Shared with Pika: extend video.
• Vidu: Video generator from ShengShu with multi-reference consistency, 2D animation strength and 3–16 second clips. Shared with Pika: video ads / UGC.
• Viggle AI: Character-swap and motion app: puts a character from a photo into the motion of a reference video, including multi-character and real-time swaps. Shared with Pika: motion transfer.
• Adobe Firefly Video: Adobe's Firefly app generates video from text or images with Adobe's Firefly Video Model and partner models (Google, OpenAI and others), plus audio/video translation.
• DomoAI: Style-transfer and animation tool (video-to-anime, character-to-video, talking avatars) that also runs third-party video models.

Head-to-head comparisons

Lists that include Pika

How we pick alternatives: same product group (generators, avatar tools, or editors and clip tools), then ranked by shared vendor-stated features and published pricing. Methodology.