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Create Veo 3.1 image-to-video online.
Upload your image. Add a prompt. Generate with Veo 3.1 — priced per second, with the exact credit cost shown before you press Generate. Veo is the one family here that scores your photograph as well as moving it — the room tone, the weather and any line you write are generated in the same pass as the picture.
How it works
Animating a photo with Veo 3.1, in three steps.
A clip of 4s · 16 credits (~$6.40) is what the shortest Veo 3.1 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 Veo 3.1 already selected and drop in a JPEG or PNG. Veo holds a photograph's grade and lens character better than it invents one, so a picture that already looks like a frame from a film gives it the least to argue with.
Write the motion and the sound
Veo generates audio with the picture, which changes how you prompt it. Say what moves — ‘she turns to the window, the curtain lifts’ — and then say what you hear: rain on glass, a room's echo, one line of dialogue. A silent prompt gets generic ambience.
Pick a length and generate
Four, six or eight seconds. The price is the length, so the first pass should be four.
Specs
The Veo 3.1 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 | Veo 3.1 | 1080p | 4s·6s·8s | Yes | 4 per second (~$1.60) |
| Image to video, 4K | Veo 3.1 4K | 4K | 4s·6s·8s | Yes | 6 per second (~$2.40) |
| Image to video, fast | Veo 3.1 Fast | 1080p | 4s·6s·8s | Yes | 1.5 per second (~$0.60) |
| Image to video, Fast 4K | Veo 3.1 Fast 4K | 4K | 4s·6s·8s | Yes | 3.5 per second (~$1.40) |
Cost
What a Veo 3.1 photo animation costs.
Veo 3.1 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 | 16 credits | ~$6.40 |
| 6 seconds | 24 credits | ~$9.60 |
| 8 seconds | 32 credits | ~$12.80 |
The photo
What to upload for Veo 3.1.
Four things that change the result more than the prompt does.
Leave the subject room to move
Veo will push in, tilt and rack focus on your still. A photograph cropped tight to a face gives it nowhere to go, and the motion becomes a slow zoom on pixels.
Bring more pixels than you need
The 4K tier renders 4K whatever you feed it, but it cannot recover detail your file never had. A phone photo at full resolution beats a screenshot every time.
Faces survive; crowds drift
One or two clear faces stay on model across eight seconds. A dozen faces at the back of a frame will start to change between them, so crop the crowd out or accept it.
Say what happens off the edges
Asked for movement it cannot see, Veo invents what lies outside the frame — usually convincingly, occasionally not. Naming what is beyond the edge is what keeps that in check.
How it behaves
What Veo 3.1 does with a still.
Veo treats a photograph as a lighting reference rather than a first frame to be nudged. Give it a portrait shot in hard afternoon light and the generated seconds keep that light: the shadow edges stay sharp, the highlights keep rolling off the same way. That is the reason it costs what it costs, and it is why a badly lit source photo produces a badly lit clip rather than a rescued one.
The audio is the part people underestimate. Because sound is generated with the frames, an animated still can arrive with the room already in it — a fan, a street, a voice. No other photo-to-video path in the app hands you that in one job, and it is the single strongest argument for spending Veo's rate on a still rather than a cheaper engine's.
Where it stops is length. Eight seconds is the ceiling for one Veo generation from a photo, and there is no image-to-video extend tier, so a longer animation of the same still means generating again and cutting, or moving the job to a family that runs further.
Alternatives
The five engines you would pick instead of Veo 3.1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kling V3 Pro | 1080p | 3–15s | Yes | 1.68 (~$0.67) | 3s · 5.04 credits (~$2.02) |
| Sora 2 Pro | 1080p | 4s·8s·12s | Yes | 5 (~$2.00) | 4s · 20 credits (~$8.00) |
| 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
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FAQ
Veo 3.1 image-to-video, answered.
How do I animate a photo with Veo 3.1?
Open the image-to-video studio in King AI with Veo 3.1 selected, upload your photograph, describe the motion and the sound you want, choose 4, 6 or 8 seconds, and generate. The credit cost is shown before you press the button, and free daily credits cover trying it.
Does Veo 3.1 image-to-video generate sound?
Yes. Every Veo 3.1 image-to-video tier generates audio alongside the frames, which is unusual — most image-to-video engines hand back a silent clip. Name the ambience or the line of dialogue in the prompt and it is generated with the picture.
Can Veo 3.1 animate a photo in 4K?
Yes. Veo 3.1 4K image-to-video renders at 4K natively rather than upscaling, and Veo 3.1 Fast 4K does the same at a lower rate. Neither invents detail your source file never had, so upload the largest version of the photograph you have.
How long can a Veo 3.1 photo animation be?
Four, six or eight seconds in a single generation. Eight is the hard ceiling for Veo, and there is no image-to-video extend tier, so a longer animation has to be assembled from more than one clip or generated on a family with a longer reach.
Get started
Animate a photo with Veo 3.1.
Upload a photograph and let Veo 3.1 move it — with the sound generated in the same pass.