Head to head · Video generate · October 2026 research run

Google Veo vs Luma AI API

Google Veo has a score of 60.8 (C) against Luma AI API's 48.7 (D). Both do video generate. The largest gap is security & auth, 30 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Google Veo	Luma AI API	Edge
Reliability	16%20	45	50	Luma AI API +5
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	71	43	Google Veo +28
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	64	66	Luma AI API +2
Security & auth	14%17.5	78	48	Google Veo +30
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	20	20	even
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	77	57	Google Veo +20
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	80	58	Google Veo +22
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		60.8 · C	48.7 · D

Fact	Google Veo	Luma AI API
Kind	Model API	Model API
Vendor	Google	Luma AI
Hosted endpoint	`https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta`	`https://agents.lumalabs.ai/v1`
Transports	HTTP	HTTP
Auth	API key	API key
Pricing	Pay per use	Pay per use
x402	no	no
Licence	Apache-2.0 (SDKs)	Apache-2.0 (SDKs)
Tools exposed	none	none
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	yes	no
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	2026-09-22	2026-08-05
Popularity	4k stars	2 stars, 982 npm/wk, 212 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	2.5/5 (2)	3/5 (2)

Audio on every Veo 3.1 clip, up to 4K on Veo 3.1 and Fast. All three Veo 3.1 previews shut down on the Gemini API on 2026-10-22.

Dollar prices per clip, $0.30 for 5 seconds at 720p, no credits to convert. Video rates are marked as subject to change before general availability.

Move off veo-3.1-*-preview before 2026-10-22. Use gemini-omni-1.1-flash on the Gemini API or the GA Veo IDs on Vertex AI
Call predictLongRunning, then poll the operation name about every 10 seconds until done is true. Jobs take 11 seconds to 6 minutes
Download the video within 2 days. The server deletes it after that
Set durationSeconds to 8 for 1080p, 4K or reference images. Shorter clips aren't supported there
In the EU, UK, Switzerland and MENA image-to-video only accepts personGeneration set to allow_adult

Send model ray-3.2 and type video, with resolution and duration inside video. Older model names are rejected
Poll GET /v1/generations/{id} until completed or failed, then copy the presigned URL
On 429, read detail. Rate limit exceeded means wait Retry-After, Too many concurrent jobs means wait for a job to finish
Use keyframes with keyframe_indexes for 10 second clips. start_frame and end_frame only work at 5 seconds