Kling capabilities

Kling exposes an official developer API so applications can call its video-generation models (text-to-video, image-to-video, lip-sync, image generation, TTS, and more) programmatically rather than through the web app.

Elements is Kling's reference-conditioning feature for keeping a specific character, object, prop, or scene consistent across generated video. Instead of relying on the prompt alone, the user supplies one or more reference images (or, in Kling 3.0, video references) that the model anchors to when generating the clip.

Kling's Lip Sync feature animates a character's mouth to match a supplied voice track, so a generated or uploaded character video appears to speak or sing. Audio can come from an uploaded file or be created in-app via text-to-speech. Note: Kling VIDEO 3.0 introduces a separate, more advanced Native Audio capability (audio-visual generation in one pass) that is distinct from the classic Lip Sync post-processing feature.

Kling AI sells access through a credit-based Membership model with a free tier plus several paid tiers. Each tier grants a monthly credit allotment that is spent on video and image generations, with higher tiers unlocking more credits, faster processing, and member-only features.

Kling AI is a generative video studio (built by Kuaishou) that produces short cinematic clips from a text prompt alone or from a still image animated by a text prompt. It is the product's core capability, with successive model generations (Kling 1.x, 2.x, and the current 3.0 series) improving motion realism, prompt adherence, character consistency, and audio-visual integration.