Head to head · Video generate · October 2026 research run

Luma AI API vs Vidu API

Luma AI API has a score of 48.7 (D) against Vidu API's 40.4 (E). Both do video generate. The largest gap is security & auth, 20 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Luma AI API	Vidu API	Edge
Reliability	16%20	50	35	Luma AI API +15
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	43	48	Vidu API +5
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	66	55	Luma AI API +11
Security & auth	14%17.5	48	28	Luma AI API +20
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	20	20	even
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	57	57	even
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	58	49	Luma AI API +9
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		48.7 · D	40.4 · E

Fact	Luma AI API	Vidu API
Kind	Model API	Model API
Vendor	Luma AI	ShengShu Technology
Hosted endpoint	`https://agents.lumalabs.ai/v1`	`https://api.vidu.com/ent/v2`
Transports	HTTP	HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
Auth	API key	API key
Pricing	Pay per use	Pay per use
x402	no	no
Licence	Apache-2.0 (SDKs)	none
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	no
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	2026-08-05	2026-09-15
Popularity	2 stars, 982 npm/wk, 212 PyPI/wk	5 stars, 25 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	3/5 (2)	3/5 (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.

Q3 Turbo from $0.035 a second at 540p, about half that off-peak. No llms.txt, OpenAPI file or error-code reference.

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

Send Authorization: Token $VIDU_API_KEY. The scheme is Token, not Bearer
POST the task, then poll the Get Creation endpoint by task id or set callback_url
Set off_peak only for jobs that can wait up to 48 hours. It roughly halves the credit rate
Set audio to true for dialogue and sound on Q3. It's off by default
Keep the AI-generated label on outputs. The terms forbid removing it