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      "summary": "fal hosts third-party and open-weights video models, including Seedance, Kling, Veo, MiniMax and Wan, behind one queue API, one key and a hosted MCP server.",
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        "http",
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@fal-ai/client"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
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      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the fal dashboard, sent as `Authorization: Key $FAL_KEY`, with an API or ADMIN scope. The MCP relay uses OAuth with browser sign-in and no key. No partner or sales approval is needed for the Model APIs.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid credit, priced per model, with no free tier or sandbox. Most video models bill per second of output by resolution or audio, and Seedance bills per 1,000 tokens. 5xx failures and queue time aren't billed. Purchased credits expire after 365 days (https://fal.ai/pricing, https://fal.ai/docs/documentation/model-apis/pricing.md).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing page or the terms (checked 2026-10-08).",
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      },
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      "openapi": "https://fal.ai/api/openapi/queue/openapi.json?endpoint_id=fal-ai/kling-video/v3/pro/text-to-video",
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        "video.generate",
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        "video.audio"
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        "hosted",
        "model-platform",
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        "webhooks",
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        "card-required",
        "python",
        "typescript",
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          "ergonomics": 81,
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        ],
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          "date": "2026-10-08"
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        "verdict": "One key and one queue API reach 137 active text-to-video endpoints, each with a published price, an OpenAPI document and an llms.txt. Billing units, duration formats and audio pricing differ per model, there is no free tier, and a person must sign up in a browser and buy credit.",
        "bestFor": "An agent or team that wants to compare or switch between Seedance, Kling, Veo, MiniMax, Wan and open-weights video models with one key and one queue contract.",
        "strengths": [
          "159 text-to-video endpoints in the catalogue API on 8 October 2026, 137 active, plus image-to-video and video-to-video categories of more than 100 each",
          "Each model has a per-endpoint OpenAPI document and an llms.txt with schema, defaults, examples and price",
          "Queue with status, cancel, webhooks, server-side retries up to 10 times and backup domains `falrun.com` and `queue.falrun.com`",
          "5xx failures and queue time aren't billed, and typed errors carry `error_type` and an `X-Fal-Error-Type` header",
          "API Services terms say client content isn't used for training, and `X-Fal-Store-IO: 0` stops payload storage"
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        "weaknesses": [
          "Billing differs per model (per second by resolution, per second by audio, per 1,000 tokens), and Kling v3 Pro shows $0.14 on the pricing page against $0.112 or $0.168 on its model page",
          "No standing free tier, no machine payment protocol, and sign-up and credit purchase need a person in a browser",
          "22 text-to-video endpoints, Sora 2 and Veo 3 among them, are marked deprecated in the catalogue with no removal date or changelog entry",
          "No idempotency key, so a repeated submit starts a second billable job",
          "No security.txt, and the trust centre with the SOC 2 material and subprocessor list renders only in a browser",
          "The terms of service bar scripts that integrate with the services without written authorisation, and bar robots and data gathering"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Submit to `queue.fal.run`, keep the `request_id`, then poll `status_url` or set `fal_webhook`. Never resubmit to check progress, because each submit is a new billable job",
          "Read `https://fal.ai/models/\u003cendpoint-id\u003e/llms.txt` before a call. `duration` is the string `\"5\"` on Kling, `\"8s\"` on Veo 3.1 and an integer on Wan 3.0",
          "Set `generate_audio` on purpose. It defaults to true and raises the Kling v3 Pro price from $0.112 to $0.168 a second and Veo 3.1 from $0.20 to $0.40",
          "Check `metadata.status` in `https://api.fal.ai/v1/models` before pinning an endpoint. Deprecated endpoints carry no removal date",
          "Use an API-scope key, never an ADMIN key. A new account runs 2 requests at once, so long video jobs queue behind each other",
          "The MCP relay has no server-side approval gate. Call `get_pricing` and get the owner's approval before `submit_job`"
        ],
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          "measured": false
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            "grade": "B",
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            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 77,
          "schema": 89,
          "security": 63,
          "transparency": 53
        },
        "provenanceScore": 66
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install fal-client   # or: npm install --save @fal-ai/client",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://queue.fal.run/fal-ai/kling-video/v3/pro/text-to-video -H \"Authorization: Key $FAL_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"prompt\":\"ocean waves at sunset, slow dolly in\",\"duration\":\"5\",\"generate_audio\":false}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --scope user fal https://mcp.fal.ai/mcp-relay"
      },
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/video.generate",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/fal-video"
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        "fal-music"
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        {
          "item": "Kling v3 Pro with audio",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.168,
          "note": "$0.112 without audio, $0.196 with voice control"
        },
        {
          "item": "Kling v3 Standard with audio",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.126,
          "note": "$0.084 without audio"
        },
        {
          "item": "Veo 3.1 with audio, 720p or 1080p",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.4,
          "note": "$0.20 without audio, $0.60 at 4K with audio"
        },
        {
          "item": "Veo 3.1 Fast with audio, 720p or 1080p",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.15,
          "note": "$0.10 without audio"
        },
        {
          "item": "Seedance 2.5 720p",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.473,
          "note": "approximate, billed at $0.0214 per 1,000 tokens. About $0.2205 at 480p and $1.164 at 1080p"
        },
        {
          "item": "Wan 3.0 720p",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "$0.05 at 480p, $0.20 at 1080p"
        },
        {
          "item": "MiniMax H3 Max 768p",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.08,
          "note": "$0.048 on promotion until 15 October 2026. $0.05 at 480p and $0.16 at 1080p after"
        },
        {
          "item": "LTX 2.5 Fast 720p",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.09,
          "note": "audio included, $0.30 at 4K"
        },
        {
          "item": "Grok Imagine Video 1.5 720p",
          "unit": "video-second",
          "usd": 0.14,
          "note": "$0.08 at 480p, $0.25 at 1080p"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.",
        "domain": "fal.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2020-11-13",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://fal.ai/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://fal.ai/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.fal.ai",
        "changelog": "https://fal.ai/docs/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The API runs on fal.run and queue.fal.run, a separate domain from fal.ai, with backup domains falrun.com and queue.falrun.com. The catalogue and platform APIs are on api.fal.ai and the MCP relay on mcp.fal.ai.",
          "Legal entity and the address 2261 Market St, Suite 10467, San Francisco, CA 94114 from the terms of service, last updated 8 September 2026.",
          "The terms of service incorporate the API Services Supplemental Terms (https://fal.ai/legal/api-services) and the Data Processing Addendum of 31 July 2026 (https://fal.ai/legal/data-processing-addendum).",
          "The privacy policy, last updated 22 July 2026, says fal is a service provider for enterprise customers under contract.",
          "https://fal.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026.",
          "RDAP for fal.ai gives a registration date of 2020-11-13."
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      "summary": "Kuaishou's developer API for its Kling video models (Kling 3.0, 3.0 Omni, Video O1, 2.6, 2.5 Turbo and older).",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kling",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kling.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kling.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kling.json",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api-singapore.klingai.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "AccessKey and SecretKey from the developer console. You sign a short-lived JWT (HS256) with them and send it as a Bearer token. Global endpoint api-singapore.klingai.com, China endpoint api-beijing.klingai.com.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid API resource packages, separate from consumer memberships. Kling 3.0 is $0.084 a second (standard, no audio), $0.126 with audio, $0.112 pro, $0.168 pro with audio, $0.42 at 4K. 3.0 Omni and Video O1 run $0.084 to $0.168 a second. Kling 2.6 is $0.21 per 5 second standard clip, $0.70 per 5 seconds pro with audio. Third-party reviews put packages from a $9.80 trial (30 days) to $7,560, which we couldn't confirm on the JS-only pricing page (https://kling.ai/dev/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in kling.ai/llms.txt or the developer pages (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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        "video.generate",
        "video.image-to-video",
        "video.edit",
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        "card-required",
        "llms-txt",
        "async-jobs",
        "commercial-licence"
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          "tasks"
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        "negative": 0,
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        "bestFor": "Buyers who want Kling's quality and price and are willing to sign JWTs and read the docs in a browser.",
        "strengths": [
          "Kling 3.0 from $0.084 a second, with audio from $0.126",
          "4K on Kling 3.0 and 3.0 Omni, plus motion control and multi-shot",
          "Every model from kling-v1 to kling-v3 still callable",
          "kling.ai/llms.txt lists model IDs and per-second prices"
        ],
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          "Developer docs, API terms and pricing render only with JavaScript",
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          "Auth needs a self-signed JWT, and Turbo and later models need newly generated keys",
          "Prepaid resource packages, separate from consumer credits",
          "The Terms of Service let Kling train on your Input unless you revoke it by email"
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          "Sign a JWT (HS256) with `iss` set to your AccessKey and a 30 minute `exp`, then send it as a bearer token",
          "Generate a new key pair if you need Kling 3.0 Turbo. Older keys don't reach it",
          "Create with POST /v1/videos/text2video or /v1/videos/image2video, then poll the task id until it succeeds",
          "Take model IDs and prices from kling.ai/llms.txt. The HTML docs need JavaScript",
          "Email support@kling.ai to revoke training use of your Input. The terms don't exempt API calls"
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        "provenanceScore": 56
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://api-singapore.klingai.com/v1/videos/text2video \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $KLING_JWT\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"model_name\":\"kling-v3\",\"prompt\":\"a red fox running through snow\",\"mode\":\"std\",\"duration\":\"5\"}'"
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      "letme": {
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        {
          "item": "Kling 3.0 std, with audio",
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        {
          "item": "Kling 3.0 pro, with audio",
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          "note": "$0.112 without audio"
        },
        {
          "item": "Kling 3.0 4K",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Kling 3.0 Omni pro, video input",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Kling 2.6 std, no audio",
          "unit": "video-second",
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          "note": "$0.21 per 5 second clip"
        },
        {
          "item": "Kling 2.6 pro, with audio",
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          "The site moved from klingai.com to kling.ai (registered 2022-06-05). API endpoints stay on klingai.com",
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          "Parent company is Kuaishou Technology, Beijing"
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        "a": "Model platform",
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "no",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kling.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kling.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### fal video models (B)\n\nGood for: An agent or team that wants to compare or switch between Seedance, Kling, Veo, MiniMax, Wan and open-weights video models with one key and one queue contract.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 15\n- Agent ergonomics, 81 against 27\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 24\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 43\n\nWatch for: Billing differs per model (per second by resolution, per second by audio, per 1,000 tokens), and Kling v3 Pro shows $0.14 on the pricing page against $0.112 or $0.168 on its model page\n\n### Kling AI API (F)\n\nGood for: Buyers who want Kling's quality and price and are willing to sign JWTs and read the docs in a browser.\n\nWatch for: Developer docs, API terms and pricing render only with JavaScript\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | fal video models | Kling AI API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 15 | fal video models +62 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 15 | fal video models +74 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 27 | fal video models +54 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 20 | fal video models +43 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 24 | fal video models +57 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 43 | fal video models +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.9 · B** | **21.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | fal video models | Kling AI API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | Model API |\n| Vendor | fal (Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.) | Kling AI (Kuaishou) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://queue.fal.run` | `https://api-singapore.klingai.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-21 | 2026-06-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-08 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-22 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 187 stars, 1.9M npm/wk, 738k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**fal video models.** One key and one queue API reach 137 active text-to-video endpoints, each with a published price, an OpenAPI document and an llms.txt. Billing units, duration formats and audio pricing differ per model, there is no free tier, and a person must sign up in a browser and buy credit.\n\n**Kling AI API.** Kling 3.0 from $0.084 a second, with audio from $0.126. Developer docs, API terms and pricing render only with JavaScript.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### fal video models\n\n1. Submit to `queue.fal.run`, keep the `request_id`, then poll `status_url` or set `fal_webhook`. Never resubmit to check progress, because each submit is a new billable job\n2. Read `https://fal.ai/models/\u003cendpoint-id\u003e/llms.txt` before a call. `duration` is the string `\"5\"` on Kling, `\"8s\"` on Veo 3.1 and an integer on Wan 3.0\n3. Set `generate_audio` on purpose. It defaults to true and raises the Kling v3 Pro price from $0.112 to $0.168 a second and Veo 3.1 from $0.20 to $0.40\n4. Check `metadata.status` in `https://api.fal.ai/v1/models` before pinning an endpoint. Deprecated endpoints carry no removal date\n5. Use an API-scope key, never an ADMIN key. A new account runs 2 requests at once, so long video jobs queue behind each other\n6. The MCP relay has no server-side approval gate. Call `get_pricing` and get the owner's approval before `submit_job`\n\n### Kling AI API\n\n1. Sign a JWT (HS256) with `iss` set to your AccessKey and a 30 minute `exp`, then send it as a bearer token\n2. Generate a new key pair if you need Kling 3.0 Turbo. Older keys don't reach it\n3. Create with POST /v1/videos/text2video or /v1/videos/image2video, then poll the task id until it succeeds\n4. Take model IDs and prices from kling.ai/llms.txt. The HTML docs need JavaScript\n5. Email support@kling.ai to revoke training use of your Input. The terms don't exempt API calls\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, fal video models or Kling AI API?\n\nfal video models scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Kling AI API's 21.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Can an agent call fal video models and Kling AI API without installing anything?\n\nYes. fal video models has a hosted endpoint at https://queue.fal.run and Kling AI API at https://api-singapore.klingai.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-video-vs-kling.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-video-vs-kling.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"fal-video\", \"b\": \"kling\"}`. 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