Head to head · Video generate · October 2026 research run

OpenAI Sora API vs Vidu API

Vidu API has a score of 40.4 (E) against OpenAI Sora API's 9.7 (F). Both do video generate. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 55 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	OpenAI Sora API	Vidu API	Edge
Reliability	16%20	0	35	Vidu API +35
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	15	48	Vidu API +33
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	0	55	Vidu API +55
Security & auth	14%17.5	0	28	Vidu API +28
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	0	20	Vidu API +20
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	15	57	Vidu API +42
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	68	49	OpenAI Sora API +19
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		9.7 · F	40.4 · E

Fact	OpenAI Sora API	Vidu API
Kind	Model API	Model API
Vendor	OpenAI	ShengShu Technology
Hosted endpoint	`https://api.openai.com/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	yes	no
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	none	2026-09-15
Popularity	32k stars	5 stars, 25 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	1/5 (2)	3/5 (2)

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

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

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

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