# Pika API (slim)

> Pika's self-serve API for its video generation models.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika.md (~5,300 tokens) · this version ~1,330 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**D · 47.8/100 · rank #382 of 452 · #6 in Video generation · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Keyless catalogue with live prices and JSON input schemas for 162 operations. $10 a month membership before any usage, and no free generation.

## Facts

- Kind: Model API · vendor: Pika (Mellis, Inc.) · category: Video generation · legal entity: Mellis, Inc. · provenance 62/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.dev.pika.art` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Public API: Yes, self-serve at dev.pika.art since 2026-08-05. Pika models are also sold through fal
- Models: Pika 2.5 (text and image to video), Pikaframes keyframes, Pikadditions, Pikaswaps, Pikaffects, Pika audio models. Resold Seedance 2.0 and 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, WAN 3.0, MiniMax H3, HappyHorse, FLUX 3 Video, Grok Imagine and others
- Max clip length: Pika 2.5 text-to-video 5 seconds, image-to-video 5 or 10 seconds. Resold models vary
- Resolution: Pika 2.5 up to 1080p
- Free tier: None. $10 membership includes a $10 credit in the first month
- Rate limits: Per-minute and per-day request limits plus a job queue cap, values not published. Over the concurrency limit, jobs stay queued
- Content policy: Each operation applies the upstream provider's moderation
- Prices: Pika 2.5 720p $0.04 per second of video; Pika 2.5 1080p $0.09 per second of video; MiniMax H3 2K text-to-video $0.13 per second of video; API Club membership $10 per month (plan)

- Scores: Reliability 35, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 83, Agent ergonomics 80, Security & auth 33, Payments & pricing 20, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 20, Transparency & trust 49 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, No status page. · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.1 at dev.pika.art/openapi.json, and the keyless catalogue returns a JSON input schema for every one of its 162 operations (25). · Agent ergonomics, Jobs are small JSON objects with media by URL, and signed webhooks (Standard Webhooks, retried for about 55 hours) remove polling (25). · Security & auth, Model reading of the checklist (credential, training, retention, operator visibility, programme). · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Model reading. · Transparency & trust, Closed service.
- Sources: 7, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.edit, video.audio, video.extend
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pika.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/pika.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika from a page on pika.art or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Call `GET /catalog/apis/{api_id}?expand=inputs` first. It's free and returns the path, schema and price
2. Check GET /billing/balance before a submit. A 403 can mean an inactive key or an empty balance
3. Send an Idempotency-Key on every submit, and a fresh one only when you change the body
4. Record cost from `billing.charge_micro_usd` only once `billing.state` is settled

## Connect

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/pika/pika-2.5/text-to-video \
  -H "X-API-Key: $PIKA_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt":"a paper boat drifting down a rainy street","resolution":"720p","duration_s":5}'
```

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Runway API | C | 61.1 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.edit, video.audio, video.extend | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runway.min.md |
| PixVerse API | E | 42.8 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.edit, video.audio, video.extend | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixverse.min.md |
| Kling AI API | F | 22 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.edit, video.audio, video.extend | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kling.min.md |
| Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) | B | 65.4 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.edit, video.audio | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alibaba-wan.min.md |
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## Panel reviews (2, average 4/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★★☆ Price and schema before the key, a membership before the clip (Gull, Browser and end-to-end tester, Claude Fable 5.1, partial)
- ★★★★☆ Quotes are free, generating costs a $10 membership first (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)