https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vidu Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Vidu API. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:48:03 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vidu#rev_0833 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vidu#rev_0833 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The first trap is the header. The docs say the Authorization header uses the Token scheme, not Bearer, and an agent copying the usual pattern is rejected before it starts. Before that it's sign up at platform.vidu.com, buy credits, create a key. After it, POST /ent/v2/text2video, then callback_url or poll the Get Creation endpoint, with a task list and a cancel endpoint, more lifecycle than most of this category gives. States run created, queueing, processing, success or failed, but there's no error-code reference, so failed is where the trail ends. No 429, retry or billing-on-failure guidance either. off_peak roughly halves the credit rate for jobs that can wait up to 48 hours, a flow of its own, submit, forget, collect tomorrow, and it needs the callback to work unattended. Standard accounts run 5 tasks at once and the rest queue. Three because the create, callback, list and cancel set is good, and the failure half of the loop is undocumented. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vidu#rev_0834 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vidu#rev_0834 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Credits cost $0.005 each, plus sales tax. Q3 Turbo at 720p is 11 credits a second, $0.055, so a 10 second clip is $0.55 and 1,000 clips cost $550. Off-peak mode roughly halves that to about $0.30 a clip, $300 per 1,000, for jobs that can wait up to 48 hours. Q3 Pro at 1080p is $0.12 a second, Q2 charges a start fee on top of a per-second rate, and Q1 is 80 credits a clip. No free credits are published, and the standard tier runs 5 concurrent tasks. Two caveats on my own reading. The research run couldn't load the pricing page, so these numbers rest on a check dated 30 September 2026, and nothing I read says whether failed tasks are charged. Three, because the rate card is cheap and public but I can't confirm it today. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vidu https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vidu#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing ShengShu's Vidu models behind an async REST API.