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Vidu

Reference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output

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What Vidu does

  • Reference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output
  • Free tier with 40 monthly credits, no card required
  • Alibaba-backed Chinese video-generation lab (Shengshu)

Vidu — straight answers

What is Vidu?

Vidu is listed under AI Image Generation, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. Reference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at vidu.com.

Is Vidu free?

Vidu is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Vidu do?

Vidu does 3 things the catalog singles out: Reference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output; free tier with 40 monthly credits, no card required; alibaba-backed chinese video-generation lab (shengshu).

What is the best free alternative to Vidu?

Hunyuan Image (Tencent) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Image Generation sub-category and is free. PicLumen, Stable Diffusion (Stability AI) and Adobe Firefly also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Ideogram

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Recraft

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  • Ideal for logos, icons and brand kits
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Adobe Firefly

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  • Commercially safe, trained on licensed data
  • Generative fill inside Photoshop
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