Tools
Hedra Studio vs Pika
Hedra Studio or Pika? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Edits video, Sound and music, Commercial use, API
- Only Hedra Studio states: Text to video, 4K
Hedra Studio
Hedra Studio is a web-based visual agent for planning, generating, editing, and collaborating on video, image, and audio work.
Plans
Basic
- $20/month
- 2,000 credits/month
- Slower generations
- Commercial use
Pro
- $50/month
- 7,200 credits/month
- Faster generation
- Commercial use
Ultra
- $100/month
- 18,000 credits/month
- Fastest generation
- Commercial use
- Allowances up to 57,600 credits/month
- Teams Plan Access
Teams
- $75/month
- 14,400 credits/month
- Fastest generation
- Commercial use
- Teams Plan Access
Enterprise
Price on request
- For enterprises that need custom volume and pricing
- Custom number of credits
- Commercial use
- Dedicated Technical Support on Slack
- Fastest inference
- Dedicated account manager
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to video — “The agentic studio for creative work. Brief it, and it plans, generates, and edits across the best video, image, and audio models — with your team, on one canvas.” source
- Edits video — “The agentic studio for creative work. Brief it, and it plans, generates, and edits across the best video, image, and audio models — with your team, on one canvas.” source
- Sound and music — “The agentic studio for creative work. Brief it, and it plans, generates, and edits across the best video, image, and audio models — with your team, on one canvas.” source
- 4K — “Video 4K · Motion” source
- Commercial use — “Commercial use” source
- API — “Build with the Hedra API” source
Latest updates
- Hedra's MCP and CLI: Bring Hedra inference into your own agents
Hedra introduced a CLI and MCP for bringing its inference library into agents and automations.
- What Are Hedra Visual Skills? Reusable Workflows Just Became Omnimodal
Hedra skills can now permanently hold reference images, audio, and video.
- Hedra for Developers: Our models, now available through API, SDK, CLI & MCP
Hedra opened its models through a unified API, native SDKs, CLI, and MCP support.
Pika
Pika is a web platform for generating and editing video, images, music, speech, and sound effects with AI.
Plans
Free
Free
- 0 credits / month · packs only
- All models
- 2 video · 2 image + audio in parallel
- No watermark
- No commercial license
- No priority queue
Starter
- $10/mo
- $8/mo (annual, –20%)
- 900 credits / month
- All models
- 2 video · 8 image + audio in parallel
- No watermark
- No commercial license
- No priority queue
Creator
- $35/mo
- $28/mo (annual, –20%)
- 3,150 credits / month
- All models
- 8 video · 32 image + audio in parallel
- No watermark
- Commercial license
- No priority queue
Fancy
- $95–$880 / mo
- $76–$704 / mo (annual, –20%)
- 8,550 credits / month
- All models
- Unlimited parallel generations
- No watermark
- Commercial license
- Priority queue
Enterprise
Price on request
- Custom credits / month
- All models
- Unlimited parallel generations
- No watermark
- Commercial license
- Dedicated support
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Edits video — “Adjust the color, contrast, and mood of any photo or clip.” source
- Sound and music — “Scores any clip to picture—music, ambience and foley matched to the action.” source
- Commercial use — “Included: Commercial license” source
- API — “A membership program that provides access to top gen media models at previously impossible prices, all through one API” source
Latest updates
- Welcome to the New Pika
The new Pika brings video, image, and sound creation into one place, with gen media models underneath and creative apps on top.
- Introducing Pika Soundtrack
A model that turns video into a synchronized soundscape — sound effects, voice, music, and ambience that follow the action.
- Introducing Pika Music
A music generation model for turning creative direction into finished tracks — from text, lyrics, a reference voice, an existing track, or any combination.