Our take
Pick Haiper if short-form creators who will stay on the web Creations desk and pay the published API $0.05 / second (720p) when they leave the free daily allowance, then a membership only when they need watermark-free / commercial / private clips. Pick Pika if creators who want a clip from a sentence and will buy credits. Skip Pika if people who need a film-grade 4K membership (Kling AI) or an avatar studio (HeyGen).
hosted text-to-video composer
Best for
Haiper A short clip from text or an image at a published $
Pika A short clip from a prompt
Free plan
Haiper No free plan
Pika $0 · / month. 0 monthly credits (packs only). 2 parallel video gens. No commercial license
Lowest paid
Haiper API Image 1.5 $0.02
Pika Starter $10/mo yearly
Next step up
Haiper API Image 2.x $0.04
Pika Creator $35/mo yearly
Runs where
Haiper Hosted
Pika Hosted
Watch out
Haiper Membership HTML 404’d on 2026-10-23
Pika Free has 0 monthly credits
Last checked
Haiper 2026-10-23 · docs.haiper.ai/api-reference/api-pricing
Pika 2026-10-20 · pika.art/pricing
short-form creators who will stay on the web Creations desk and pay the published API $0.05 / second (720p) when they leave the free daily allowance, then a membership only when they need watermark-free / commercial / private clips.
Read the Haiper pagecreators who want a clip from a sentence and will buy credits.
Read the Pika page