Image to video AI
You already have the frame you like. Image-to-video keeps that frame as the first one and generates the motion around it, so the look you approved survives into the clip.
At a glance
- Models for this job
- 36
- Free to run
- 14
- Paid from
- 60 cr a run
- Top of the range
- 525 cr a run
- Free account
- 22 credits a day, no card
This is the most reliable way to get a usable clip out of a generative model, because the hardest part — composition, wardrobe, light, the face — is already decided. The model only has to move.
It is also the natural second half of a stills workflow: generate a hero frame, approve it, then animate the approved frame instead of gambling on a text prompt describing the same thing.
The line-up
36 models do this job.
Read straight from the live catalogue — cost per run, what it takes as input, and what it can return.
| Model | Cost | Input | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hailuo 2.3 | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Kling 2.1 Master | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Kling 3.0 | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Kling Pro | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Seedance 1.5 Pro | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Seedance 2.0 | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Seedance Lite | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Seedance Pro | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Veo 3.1 | Free | Text + image | 4s / 6s / 8s |
| Veo 3.1 Fast | Free | Text + image | 4s / 6s / 8s |
| Veo 3.1 Lite | Free | Text + image | 4s / 6s / 8s |
| Wan 2.6 | Free | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Seedance 2 Fast | 60 cr | Text + image | 4s / 5s / 6s / 8s / 10s / 12s |
| Seedance 2 Mini | 60 cr | Text + image | 4s / 5s / 6s / 8s / 10s / 12s |
| Veo 3.1 Fast | 60 cr | Text + image | 4s / 6s / 8s |
| Wan 2.6 Flash | 60 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Hailuo 03 | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Hailuo 2.3 | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Kling 2.6 | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Kling 3.0 | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s / 15s |
| Seedance 2 | 140 cr | Text + image | 4s / 5s / 6s / 8s / 10s / 12s |
| Seedance 2.5 | 140 cr | Text + image | 4s / 5s / 8s / 10s / 12s / 15s / 20s / 25s / 30s |
| Wan 2.6 | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s / 15s |
| Wan 2.7 | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s / 15s |
| Wan 2.7 R2V | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s |
| Wan 3.0 | 140 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s / 15s / 20s / 25s / 30s |
| Pika | 170 cr | Text + image | 5s |
| Kling 3.0 Omni | 400 cr | Text + image | 5s / 10s / 15s |
| Sora 2 | 400 cr | Text + image | 4s / 8s / 10s / 12s / 15s |
| Sora 2 Pro | 400 cr | Text + image | 4s / 8s / 10s / 12s / 15s |
| Tencent Hunyuan | 400 cr | Text + image | Model default |
| Veo 3.1 | 400 cr | Text + image | 4s / 6s / 8s |
| Kling O3 Pro | 525 cr | Text + image | 5s |
How it works
Three steps.
Bring the frame
Upload a still, or send one straight across from the image studio with its prompt attached.
Describe the motion only
Say what moves and how the camera behaves. The frame handles the rest.
Chain it if you need length
Models that support an end frame can start from where the last clip finished.
Worth knowing
The honest small print.
- Composition is set by your frame — the model will not recompose a shot that is framed wrong.
- Aspect ratio follows the image you hand over, so crop before you animate rather than after.
- Free image-to-video models exist and cost nothing, but they queue behind other free traffic.
- Credits are reserved when a run starts and settled when it ends, so a failed render is refunded.
FAQ
What people ask.
Upload the still, pick an image-to-video model, then describe only the motion — what moves, and what the camera does. The model uses your image as the first frame and generates the rest of the clip from it. In Ideovex you can also push a still straight from the image studio into a video model without downloading and re-uploading.
Yes. Several experimental image-to-video models cost no credits at all on Ideovex, which is unusual — most platforms reserve motion for paid tiers. They are slower and treat duration and resolution as requests, so they suit drafting a movement idea before paying for the take you keep.
The first frame stays close to what you handed over, and drift increases as the clip goes on. Faces and text hold up best in short clips, so if a detail matters, keep the duration short and the motion modest.
Use the highest-resolution version you have, in the aspect ratio you want the clip to be, with the subject already framed the way the shot needs. Busy backgrounds and tiny text are where these models fail first.
In practice
Jobs that run through this tool.
Each one is a full workflow with the credit arithmetic attached.
Next door
Related tools.
Try it on your own brief
Free account, 22 credits a day, no card. Every model on this page is in the picker from the first render.