AI Models · OpenAI · Image to video
Create Sora 2 Pro image-to-video online.
Upload your image. Add a prompt. Generate with Sora 2 Pro — priced per second, with the exact credit cost shown before you press Generate. Sora is the engine to reach for when the photograph is a starting point rather than a constraint — it will build a world outward from your frame instead of politely nudging it.
How it works
Animating a photo with Sora 2 Pro, in three steps.
A clip of 4s · 20 credits (~$8.00) is what the shortest Sora 2 Pro animation costs; everything below is read from the app's own model catalog, so it is the figure you will be charged.
Upload the photograph
Open the image-to-video studio with Sora 2 Pro already selected and add your file. Sora reads the picture as a world it is allowed to extend, so an image with depth — a corridor, a street, a horizon — gives it more to work with than a flat product shot.
Describe the world, not the shot list
Sora responds to atmosphere, material and weather more than to camera jargon. Say what the place is doing: the snow falling upward, the water rising, the crowd thinning. Camera instructions land, but they are not what the model is best at.
Choose 4, 8 or 12 seconds and generate
There is nothing between the three lengths, so a 12-second take costs three times a four.
Specs
The Sora 2 Pro image-to-video tiers.
Every column comes from the catalog the app bills from — resolution, the clip lengths on offer, whether sound is generated with the picture, and the per-second rate.
| Mode | Engine | Max resolution | Clip length | Audio | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image to video, Pro | Sora 2 Pro | 1080p | 4s·8s·12s | Yes | 5 per second (~$2.00) |
| Image to video, standard | Sora 2 | 720p | 4s·8s·12s | Yes | 1 per second (~$0.40) |
Cost
What a Sora 2 Pro photo animation costs.
Sora 2 Pro bills per second, so the length is the price. The dollar figure is the most a generation can cost, at the credit-pack rate; free daily credits cover a short first attempt.
| Clip length | Credits | At the credit-pack rate |
|---|---|---|
| 4 seconds | 20 credits | ~$8.00 |
| 8 seconds | 40 credits | ~$16.00 |
| 12 seconds | 60 credits | ~$24.00 |
The photo
What to upload for Sora 2 Pro.
Four things that change the result more than the prompt does.
Depth beats sharpness
A photograph with a receding plane — a road, a hallway, a shoreline — animates far better than a flat, evenly lit subject, because Sora's strength is building space outward from what it sees.
1080p is the ceiling, so start there
There is no Sora 4K tier. Upload the best file you have, but do not expect the model to deliver more resolution than the Pro tier's 1080p.
Faces are not its specialism
Sora is stronger on environments and stylisation than on holding one real face across twelve seconds. For a portrait that has to stay recognisable, Kling or Veo is the safer spend.
Stylised sources stay stylised
An illustration, a claymation still or a painted frame keeps its style through the whole animation, which is the single thing Sora does better than anything else in this comparison.
How it behaves
What Sora 2 Pro does with a still.
Most image-to-video engines are conservative with a photograph: they find the subject, move it a little and leave the rest alone. Sora is the opposite. It reads the frame as one view into a place that continues past the edges, and then it shows you more of that place. That is exactly what you want from a concept still and exactly what you do not want from a product shot.
Twelve seconds is the other reason to bring a photograph here. It is half again as long as Veo's ceiling from the same starting image, which is enough for a complete beat — a thing beginning, changing and settling — without a cut to hide a seam.
The draft tier makes the experiment cheap. Sora 2 at 720p takes the same photograph and the same prompt as the Pro tier at a fifth of the rate, so the question ‘does this image animate at all’ can be answered for the price of a couple of credits before the real take is bought.
Alternatives
The five engines you would pick instead of Sora 2 Pro.
The same photograph reaches all of them from the same studio and the same credit balance, so the choice is per shot, not per subscription.
| Model | Max resolution | Clip length | Audio | Credits per second | Shortest clip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veo 3.1 | 1080p | 4s·6s·8s | Yes | 4 (~$1.60) | 4s · 16 credits (~$6.40) |
| Kling V3 Pro | 1080p | 3–15s | Yes | 1.68 (~$0.67) | 3s · 5.04 credits (~$2.02) |
| Seedance 2.0 | 1080p | 4–15s | Yes | 6.804 (~$2.72) | 4s · 27.22 credits (~$10.89) |
| MiniMax H3 | 768p | 5s·10s·15s | Yes | 0.6 (~$0.24) | 5s · 3 credits (~$1.20) |
| WAN 3.0 1080p | 1080p | 2–30s | Yes | 2 (~$0.80) | 2s · 4 credits (~$1.60) |
Keep exploring
Related pages.
FAQ
Sora 2 Pro image-to-video, answered.
How do I animate a photo with Sora 2?
Open the image-to-video studio in King AI with Sora 2 Pro selected, upload the photograph, describe what the scene does, and pick 4, 8 or 12 seconds. No invite code and no OpenAI account are involved; the generation comes out of the same credit balance as every other model.
What is the difference between the Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro image-to-video tiers?
Resolution and price. Sora 2 Pro outputs 1080p; Sora 2 outputs 720p at a fifth of the rate. Both take the same photograph, offer the same three lengths and generate audio, so the cheap tier is a genuine rehearsal of the expensive one.
Can Sora 2 animate a photo in 4K?
No. 1080p on the Pro tier is the ceiling. For a 4K animation of a still, use Veo 3.1 4K, Kling V3 4K or Seedance 2.0 4K, or upscale the finished Sora clip afterwards.
How long can a Sora 2 photo animation be?
Four, eight or twelve seconds, with nothing in between. Twelve is the longest single Sora generation in King AI and the longest of any tier on this page's alternatives table apart from Kling, MiniMax H3 and WAN 3.0.
Get started
Animate a photo with Sora 2 Pro.
Bring a photograph with somewhere to go, and let Sora 2 Pro build the rest of the place.