Sora
OpenAI’s flagship video model — most coherent long clips on the market.
At a glance
- Time to first token
- 60s
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- video
- License
- Proprietary
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Up to 60s clips
- Strong world model
- Image-to-video
- Expensive
- Slow
- Access still gated
- Marketing videos
- Storyboarding
- Concept films
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