Kling 3.0 API

Top resolution

4K

Draft at 720p, deliver the keeper at 4K.

Longest clip

15S

3 to 15 seconds on text and image to video.

Motion Control input

30S

Feed a 3-30 second driving clip; the result matches its length.

Sound, switchable

AUDIO

Turn native audio on or off per request.

Frame control

1ST+LAST

Set an opening frame and, optionally, pin the closing one.

Content modes

2

Single continuous shot, or let the model cut its own multi-shot edit.

Renders: on screen as written. Softened: generated, but milder than what was written. Refused: rejected. Not tested yet: we have not run that level on that mode.

• Image to video

  Lock the shot with one line

  

  One continuous shot with no cuts, the golden-pink dusk light staying the same throughout. He turns from the rail toward the camera, pushes his wet hair back with one hand and smiles, then says, "Jump in, the water's perfect." The yacht rocks gently and the sail snaps in the evening breeze. Slow handheld push-in. Sound: waves slapping the hull, wind in the rigging, gulls far off.

  Instead of “He turns from the rail toward the camera, pushes his wet hair back with one hand and smiles, then says, "Jump in, the water's perfect."”

  Why it works. Without the opening line, our test cut to a second angle partway through and the light shifted from dusk to daylight. Adding "one continuous shot with no cuts" plus the light description held both the framing and the color steady end to end.

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• Text to video

  Dialogue with the sound written in

  

  Night on the marble terrace of a Venetian palazzo during a gala. A woman in her early thirties in a backless emerald silk gown walks away from the camera toward the balustrade, candlelight catching the line of her back, the Grand Canal glittering below. She stops, looks back over her shoulder at the camera and says with a faint smile, "Don't wait up." Slow tracking shot behind her, shallow depth of field. Sound: a string quartet playing inside, the murmur of guests, water lapping against stone.

  Why it works. The line in quotes came back as spoken dialogue in our test, word for word, because the soundtrack was turned on and the sound cues were written into the same prompt as the shot.

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• Character animation

  Move a performance onto a new character

  

  She performs the routine in the same warm-grey photo studio, the satin suit catching the light as she moves.

  Why it works. The driving clip supplies every beat of the choreography; the prompt only needs to say what the character wears and where she stands, since Motion Control already knows the moves.

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• Text to video

  A crowd scene with one clear line to hear

  

  A summer rooftop party in Brooklyn at blue hour, string lights and the Manhattan skyline behind. A mixed group of friends in their late twenties and thirties dance and laugh: a woman with long braids spins under a man's arm, two men clink beer bottles, someone throws a handful of confetti. One continuous handheld shot weaving through the dancers, ending as the whole group raises their drinks and shouts together, "To summer!" Sound: upbeat funk music, chatter, laughter, bottles clinking.

  Why it works. Naming one line for the whole group to shout, at the very end of the brief, gave the model a single moment to land the dialogue on instead of guessing when several people should speak at once.

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• Image to video

  Describe only what happens after the frame

  

  Lightning flashes and lights the whole forecourt white for an instant. She pushes off the truck, pulls her jacket collar up against the rain and walks out from under the canopy into the downpour toward the camera, rain bouncing off the concrete around her boots. Sound: a sharp crack of thunder, heavy rain drumming on the canopy roof, her footsteps splashing, the buzz of the fluorescent lights.

  Why it works. The opening frame already sets the woman, the truck and the gas station; the prompt never redescribes them and only adds the lightning, the motion and the sound that come after.

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A 5-second clip starts at $0.336 at 720p and $1.68 at 4K.

The playground shows the exact price for your settings before you run. Failed or timed-out tasks are usually not charged. Some models charge for content refusals as stated on their model page; check those billing terms before submitting.

About Kling 3.0

Kling 3.0 is Kling's flagship video model, available on SpicyAPI as text-to-video, image-to-video and Motion Control (character-animation). Clips run 3 to 15 seconds on text and image to video, up to 4K, with native audio you switch on or off and an optional last frame to pin the ending. Motion Control copies the moves from a 3-to-30-second driving clip onto a character photo, and the result matches that clip's length. In our 2026-09-28 testing, Kling's own moderation refused everything from the Moderate level up on every endpoint we checked; for anything further, use one of our unrestricted families instead. SpicyAPI bills per second of output in US dollars, with no subscription, and a refused or failed request is never charged. You are responsible for having the rights and consent for anything you upload and for how you use what you generate.