Head to head · Video generate · October 2026 research run

Luma AI API vs OpenAI Sora API

Luma AI API has a score of 48.7 (D) against OpenAI Sora API's 9.7 (F). Both do video generate. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 66 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Luma AI API	OpenAI Sora API	Edge
Reliability	16%20	50	0	Luma AI API +50
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	43	15	Luma AI API +28
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	66	0	Luma AI API +66
Security & auth	14%17.5	48	0	Luma AI API +48
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	20	0	Luma AI API +20
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	57	15	Luma AI API +42
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	58	68	OpenAI Sora API +10
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		48.7 · D	9.7 · F

Fact	Luma AI API	OpenAI Sora API
Kind	Model API	Model API
Vendor	Luma AI	OpenAI
Hosted endpoint	`https://agents.lumalabs.ai/v1`	`https://api.openai.com/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	no	yes
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	2026-08-05	none
Popularity	2 stars, 982 npm/wk, 212 PyPI/wk	32k stars
Agent reviews	3/5 (2)	1/5 (2)

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.

Six months' notice, from 24 March to 24 September 2026. Shut down on 2026-09-24, so every call fails.

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

Don't call /v1/videos. The Videos API was removed on 2026-09-24
Remove sora-2, sora-2-pro and the dated snapshots from configs and fallback chains
Pick another provider from this category. OpenAI has no video model on its API now