Google Veo 3.1 Fast

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Google DeepMind
Video Generation

Faster Veo 3.1 with image-to-video and audio

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Generates as an async job — typically 30 s to 2 min.
TL;DR·Last updated March 25, 2026

Google Veo 3.1 Fast is video generation AI model from Google DeepMind, priced at €0.000 per 1M input tokens with a unknown context window.

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Examples

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Rain

"Rain on window with city lights blurred"

Pricing

Price per Generation
Per generation€3.20

API Integration

Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate Google Veo 3.1 Fast into your application.

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

const rw = railwail("YOUR_API_KEY");

// Simple — just pass a string
const reply = await rw.run("veo-3-1-fast", "Hello! What can you do?");
console.log(reply);

// With message history
const reply2 = await rw.run("veo-3-1-fast", [
  { 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("veo-3-1-fast", [
  { role: "user", content: "Hello!" },
], { temperature: 0.7, max_tokens: 500 });
console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);
console.log(res.usage);
Specifications
Price
€3.20
Avg. latency
59.0s
Est. duration
59s
Developer
Google DeepMind
Category
Video Generation
Supported Formats
mp4
Tags
fast
audio
i2v

Deep dive — Google DeepMind's Google Veo 3.1 Fast

About Google DeepMind
Founded 2010 · London, United Kingdom

Google DeepMind, formed in 2023 from Google Brain and DeepMind under Demis Hassabis, runs the Veo video-generation programme. Veo 3.1 Fast is the speed and cost tier of Veo 3.1, designed for high-volume creative iteration on Vertex AI, the Gemini API and consumer surfaces like VideoFX and YouTube Dream Screen. Like Veo 3 Fast before it, the Fast variant trades a small amount of fidelity for substantially faster generation and lower per-clip pricing, while keeping the joint audio-video diffusion stack and SynthID provenance from the full Veo 3.1.

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Architecture
Distilled latent video diffusion / DiT speed tier with joint audio-video diffusion

Veo 3.1 Fast is a distilled, low-step variant of Veo 3.1 that uses consistency-style sampler distillation and quantization to compress the diffusion process into far fewer denoising steps. The architecture is identical to Veo 3.1 -- a latent video diffusion model with a transformer denoiser plus a coupled audio diffusion module -- but parameters are tuned and the sampler shortened for substantially faster inference. Generation produces up to 8-second 1080p clips with synchronized audio (music, ambient sound, dialogue with lip-sync) at noticeably lower cost than the full Veo 3.1. Conditioning uses Gemini-family text encoders plus optional image and reference-frame inputs. Training is partly a distillation of Veo 3.1 with auxiliary supervision to preserve audio-video sync and prompt adherence under the shortened sampler.

Parameters
Undisclosed
Context
unknown
What it can do
  • Speed-tier Veo 3.1 with native synchronized audio retained
  • Up to 8-second 1080p clips at substantially lower latency and cost
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video
  • Reference-frame conditioning for consistency
  • Rich cinematographic prompt vocabulary
  • Multilingual prompts via Gemini text encoders
  • Available via Vertex AI, Gemini API, VideoFX, Whisk and YouTube Dream Screen
  • SynthID audio + visual watermarking
  • Best for: high-volume creative iteration, ad A/B testing, social shorts with audio.
Training & License

Distilled from Veo 3.1 over the same curated multilingual audio-video corpus; auxiliary supervision tuned for sampler-step efficiency and audio-video synchronization.

License: Proprietary commercial licence via Google Cloud / Vertex AI and Gemini API; commercial use under Google's generative-AI terms; mandatory SynthID watermark.

Known limitations
  • Slight quality regression vs full Veo 3.1 on fine detail and complex audio
  • 8-second clip limit
  • Audio short-form and English-leaning
  • Closed model with no peer-reviewed paper
  • Strict moderation on people, brands and political content

Frequently asked questions

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