Pika 2.0 (Official)
Pika Labs' 2.0 release. Cinematic text/image-to-video with scene composition controls.
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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API Integration
Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate Pika 2.0 (Official) into your application.
npm install railwailimport railwail from "railwail";
const rw = railwail("YOUR_API_KEY");
// Simple — 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);Deep dive — Pika Labs's Pika 2.0 (Official)
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.
Visit Pika Labs →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
- 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.
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
Research papers
Frequently asked questions
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