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Independent tool overview
Haiper AI at a glance
Haiper AI is a visual-generation platform for creating short videos from text or images, transforming existing clips, conditioning motion with keyframes, and generating still images.
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- Current family
- Haiper Video 2.x and Haiper Image 2.x
- Core video tools
- Text-to-video, image-to-video, keyframes, and video-to-video
- App output
- 540p or 720p for current Video 2.x generations
- API video rate
- $0.033/sec at 540p or $0.05/sec at 720p
- API frame rate
- 24 FPS
- Access
- Web, iOS, API, and ComfyUI
- Last reviewed
- August 29, 2026
Overview
What Haiper AI is
Haiper AI is aimed at creators and product teams that need short generative video assets without building their own model pipeline. Its current Haiper Video 2.x tools cover text-to-video, image-to-video, keyframe conditioning, and video-to-video generation in the web and iOS apps.
The platform also includes Haiper Image models for text-to-image generation, plus an API and ComfyUI node for programmatic workflows. Video 2.x offers standard, smooth, and enhanced generation modes so users can favor fidelity, motion, or a combination of the two.
Haiper is best for concept shots, animated product or brand imagery, social clips, B-roll, and creative experimentation. Results still need review for identity, object consistency, text rendering, physics, and frame-to-frame artifacts before commercial delivery.
Use cases
Who Haiper AI is best for
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
Fast visual ideation
Generate several short treatments for camera movement, atmosphere, subject motion, or art direction before production.
Keyframed transitions
Use multiple source images as conditioning frames when a clip needs to move between defined visual states.
Embedded generation
Use the API or ComfyUI node to add Haiper image and video generation to a product or repeatable content workflow.
Social and marketing assets
Create short campaign variations, stylized B-roll, and moving backgrounds that will be finished with captions, sound, and editing elsewhere.
Capabilities
Core Haiper AI features
Text-to-video
Generate short 540p or 720p clips from a scene description, aspect ratio, duration, seed, and optional negative prompt.
Image-to-video
Animate a source frame while using a prompt to describe the desired movement, camera behavior, and scene evolution.
Keyframe conditioning
Provide multiple images and frame positions to guide how the generated video changes over time.
Video-to-video
Transform existing footage with the Haiper Video 2.x model in the app; current public API documentation still labels 2.x video-to-video as coming soon.
Generation modes
Select standard for fidelity, smooth for more motion, or enhanced for a balance of high fidelity and motion where supported.
Text-to-image
Generate batches of four images at resolutions from 720p through 4K using the current Haiper Image family.
Developer access
Authenticate with an API key, poll job status, and integrate generation through REST endpoints or Haiper's ComfyUI custom node.
Process
How the Haiper AI workflow works
Step 1
Choose the right starting point
Use text-to-video for open-ended concepts, image-to-video when composition or branding must be preserved, and keyframes when beginning and end states matter.
Step 2
Write for motion
Describe the subject, environment, action, camera move, and visual style. Put the most important terms early and use a negative prompt only for clear exclusions.
Step 3
Pick fidelity and resolution
Choose standard, smooth, or enhanced mode and test at 540p before spending more credits on 720p variations.
Step 4
Generate several controlled variations
Hold the source and core prompt steady while changing one variable at a time, such as motion strength, seed, or camera direction.
Step 5
Inspect every frame
Check faces, hands, logos, object counts, edges, reflections, lighting, and any transition where the subject becomes hidden or changes direction.
Step 6
Finish outside Haiper
Trim, sequence, color-correct, add captions and audio, and apply brand-safe text or logos in a conventional editor.
Cost
Haiper AI pricing and free plan
The Haiper web and iOS apps bill generation in credits, while the API publishes per-second and per-image dollar prices. Haiper's public documentation lists generation costs but not a fixed public dollar value for every app credit package, so check the in-app purchase screen before comparing subscription value.
Web/iOS — Video 2.x 540p
5 credits per second
Lower-credit text-to-video and image-to-video generation.
- 540p output
- Text-to-video
- Image-to-video
- Current app credit balance required
Web/iOS — Video 2.x 720p
8 credits per second
Higher-resolution current-model generation.
- 720p output
- Text-to-video and image-to-video
- Keyframe conditioning
- Video-to-video
Web/iOS — Image 2.x
5–20 credits per 4 images
Text-to-image batches priced by output resolution.
- 720p: 5 credits
- 1080p: 10 credits
- 4K: 20 credits
- Four images per generation
API — Video 2.x
$0.033–$0.05 per second
Programmatic 24 FPS text-to-video and image-to-video generation.
- 540p: $0.033 per second
- 720p: $0.05 per second
- 2.x video-to-video listed as coming soon
- Prepaid API balance required
API — Image 2.x
$0.04–$0.12 per image
Programmatic text-to-image generation priced by resolution.
- 720p: $0.04 per image
- 1080p: $0.08 per image
- 4K: $0.12 per image
- Separate from web-app credits
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Assessment
Haiper AI strengths and limitations
Where it stands out
- Covers text, image, keyframe, and existing-video starting points in one visual platform
- Lower-resolution options make early motion tests less expensive
- Keyframe conditioning offers more control than a single text prompt
- Straightforward public API pricing for current text-to-video and image-to-video models
- API and ComfyUI access support both product integration and custom creative pipelines
What to consider
- Current Video 2.x app output tops out at 720p, so many delivery workflows will need upscaling or another finishing step
- Short generative clips can show temporal drift, inconsistent anatomy, changing object details, and unstable logos or text
- The public app-pricing document gives credit costs but not the cash price of every credit package
- Haiper's API documentation lists 2.x video-to-video as coming soon even though the web app includes it
- API generations are public by default unless the integration explicitly sets is_public to false
- Generated footage does not replace timeline editing, sound design, captions, compositing, or final quality control
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Haiper AI FAQs
What can Haiper AI create?
Haiper can generate video from text or an image, transform video, condition a clip with multiple keyframes, and create still images from text.
Is Haiper AI free?
Haiper has offered limited free creation, but current generation is metered in credits and paid access changes limits and features. Check the app for the current free allowance and the cash price of credit packages.
How much does the Haiper API cost?
Haiper Video 2.x is listed at $0.033 per second for 540p and $0.05 per second for 720p text-to-video or image-to-video. Haiper Image 2.x ranges from $0.04 to $0.12 per image by resolution.
What resolution does Haiper video generate?
The current public pricing documentation lists 540p and 720p output for Haiper Video 2.x. Haiper Video 1.5 also has a separate 1080p Enhance operation.
Does Haiper have an API?
Yes. Haiper provides authenticated REST endpoints for text-to-video, image-to-video, text-to-image, and keyframe workflows, plus a ComfyUI custom node.
Are Haiper API generations private?
Not automatically. Haiper's API documentation says is_public defaults to true, so integrations handling confidential or unreleased assets should explicitly set it to false and review the current data terms.
Bottom line
Our Haiper AI verdict
Haiper is a practical option for affordable short-form visual experimentation, particularly when a strong image or set of keyframes can anchor the result. Its API rates are easy to model, and 540p testing can keep iteration costs down. The main tradeoffs are 720p current-model output, generative consistency, and the need to configure privacy deliberately before sending sensitive assets.
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