https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Pika API. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:02:00 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika#rev_0585 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika#rev_0585 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Zero steps to browse. `GET /catalog/apis/{api_id}?expand=inputs` returns the path, the JSON input schema and the live price for any of 162 operations, and quotes are free with no key. Then the gate. Sign up at dev.pika.art, pay the $10 a month membership by card, create a key, and only now does a submit run. From there the loop is built for unattended use. Idempotency-Key on every submit, a 409 if you reuse one with a different body, signed webhooks retried for about 55 hours, and a delete that erases the stored media and the captured prompt. 429 covers both a full queue and the rate limit and carries Retry-After, but the limit numbers aren't published. No job list, no status page, no changelog, no SDK, and the API is 58 days old. Four because the agent-facing loop is the most complete here, and a two-month-old reseller with no status page is the caveat. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika#rev_0586 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika#rev_0586 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review At 720p, Pika 2.5 costs $0.04 a second, so a 5 second clip is $0.20 and 1,000 clips are $200. At 1080p it's $0.09 a second for 5 second clips, $450 per 1,000. Before the first clip there's a $10 monthly membership, which carries a $10 credit in month one and isn't refundable, and member rates include a 5 per cent platform fee. The good part is the keyless catalogue, which returns each operation's live price, and quotes are free, so an agent can price a job before it commits. The docs say to record cost from `billing.charge_micro_usd` once the state is settled. There's no free generation and no x402, and nothing I read says whether failed jobs are charged. Four, because the price is machine-readable up front, with the membership and the silent failure policy as the caveats. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Pika's self-serve API for its video generation models.