Pika 2.0 (Official)

Pika
Video Generation

Pika Labs' 2.0 release. Cinematic text/image-to-video with scene composition controls.

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Generates as an async job β€” typically 30 s to 2 min.
TL;DRΒ·Last updated May 16, 2026

Pika 2.0 (Official) is video generation AI model from Pika, priced at €0.000 per 1M input tokens with a unknown context window.

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Pricing

Price per Generation
Per generation€0.20

API Integration

Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate Pika 2.0 (Official) into your application.

Install
npm install railwail
JavaScript / TypeScript
import railwail from "railwail";

const rw = railwail("YOUR_API_KEY");

// Simple β€” just pass a string
const reply = await rw.run("pika-2-official", "Hello! What can you do?");
console.log(reply);

// With message history
const reply2 = await rw.run("pika-2-official", [
  { role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
  { role: "user", content: "Explain quantum computing simply." },
]);
console.log(reply2);

// Full response with usage info
const res = await rw.chat("pika-2-official", [
  { role: "user", content: "Hello!" },
], { temperature: 0.7, max_tokens: 500 });
console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);
console.log(res.usage);
Specifications
Price
€0.20
Developer
Pika
Category
Video Generation
Supported Formats
text
image
Tags
pika
text-to-video
image-to-video

Deep dive β€” Pika Labs's Pika 2.0 (Official)

About Pika Labs
Founded 2022 Β· Palo Alto, USA

Pika Labs was founded in 2022 by Demi Guo (CEO) and Chenlin Meng (CTO), both Stanford PhD candidates in generative AI (Meng is a co-author of foundational diffusion-model papers including SDEdit and Diffusion ODE samplers). The company shipped its initial Discord-based product in mid-2023, launched the Pika web app and Pika 1.0 in November 2023, and rolled out Pika 2.0 in late 2024 with Scene Ingredients (compose a clip from several reference images) and Pikadditions / Pikaffects (object insertion and visual effects). Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Homebrew and Greycroft, with total funding above $135M and a $470M valuation in 2024. Pika is widely used by short-form social-media creators.

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Architecture
Latent video diffusion model (transformer denoiser)

Pika 2.0 is a closed latent-video-diffusion model with a transformer-based denoiser operating on a learned spatio-temporal latent space. Conditioning includes a multilingual text encoder, image embeddings for image-to-video, and the headline 'Scene Ingredients' system that composes a single output clip from multiple reference images of distinct subjects, props and scenes -- a richer multimodal-conditioning surface than Pika 1.0. The model generates 5-second clips at 720p with optional upscaling, and supports special-effect modes (Pikaffects: melt, squish, levitate, etc.) trained as conditioned variations of the base diffusion model. Pika has published no formal paper; product behaviour and team papers (e.g., Meng's diffusion sampler work) suggest a DiT-style architecture with classifier-free guidance and a curated training corpus of stock and web video.

Parameters
Undisclosed
Context
unknown
What it can do
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video
  • 'Scene Ingredients' multi-image conditioning (subjects, props, scene)
  • Pikaffects / Pikadditions for one-shot visual effects (melt, squish, etc.)
  • 5-second 720p clips with upscale
  • Web app and Discord workflow
  • Strong creative-effects vocabulary aimed at social-media
  • Easy UX for non-technical creators
  • Affordable consumer pricing
  • Best for: short-form social video, creative effects, meme content, ad ideation.
Training & License

Closed corpus of licensed stock footage, web video and synthetic data with dense captions; exact size undisclosed.

License: Proprietary commercial licence via pika.art terms; commercial use on paid plans.

Known limitations
  • 5-second base clips
  • No native audio
  • Quality below frontier (Veo 3 / Sora 2 / Kling v3) on complex scenes
  • Closed model with no technical paper
  • Limited cinematographic vocabulary vs Veo / Runway

Frequently asked questions

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