Kling
Kuaishou
Kling is a video generation model line from Kuaishou. The latest release is Kling 4.0 (19 Oct 2026). This page tracks all 9 Kling releases since 6 Jun 2024, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →
Kling 4.0released
Stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, clips up to 30 seconds, up to 10 keyframe images, 8,000-token prompt comprehension; Flash variant also released
- License
- Proprietary
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
- Audio
- stereo + multilingual lip sync
- Max duration
- 30s
- Max Keyframes
- 10
- Prompt Tokens
- 8000
A lighter Flash variant was released alongside the flagship 4.0. Benchmarks against Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 show competitive but not clearly superior results.
Kling 3.0 Turboreleased
Speed/cost tier of the 3.0 generation - a separate model, not a setting. Text- and image-to-video 3-15s, multi-shot prompting up to 6 shots; list price ¥0.8/s (720p) and ¥1/s (1080p) with audio included. Launched alongside a Kling 3.0 Omni upgrade
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
- Audio
- native audio with lip sync in 5 languages
- Resolution
- 720p-1080p
- Max duration
- 15s
Launched 18:00 CST 2026-06-17. announcement_url is the syndicated press release; Kling's own release-notes page was not indexed at seeding time.
Kling 3.0released
Video 3.0 and Image 3.0 plus Omni variants; up to 15s, native multilingual audio, in-video editing
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
- Max duration
- 15s
Kling 2.6released
First Kling model with native simultaneous audio-visual generation (voiceovers, sound effects and ambient audio in one pass); text-to-video and image-to-video; Voice Control for consistent character voices
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
- Resolution
- 1080p
- Max duration
- 10s
Released 2025-12-03, announced 2025-12-05 (Kuaishou IR). A video/audio model - text and image are inputs, not a still-image generator; no separate Kling/Kolors 2.6 image model exists, so it is video-only (unlike Kling 3.0, which shipped a distinct Image 3.0).
Kling 2.5 Turboreleased
Roughly 30% cheaper with a large text-to-video and image-to-video quality jump
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
Kling 2.1released
Introduced quality modes
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
Month only (May 2025) confirmed via secondary sources; exact day not from a primary source.
Kling 2.0released
Kling 2.0 Master Edition; global debut of the 2.0 video and image models; new MVL (multimodal visual language) interaction; major gains in semantics, motion, and aesthetics
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
Date confirmed from Kuaishou IR: launched 15 April 2025 at the 'From Vision to Screen' event (upgrade from Kling 1.6). Previously dated Dec 2024 in error.
Kling 1.5released
Improved motion smoothness and prompt coherence; faster generation; Elements feature for object insertion
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
Date approximate
Kling 1.0released
First public Chinese T2V model matching Sora-level quality claims; 5s and 10s modes
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
- Frame rate
- 30
- Resolution
- 1080p
- Max duration
- 120s
FAQ
- When was Kling 4.0 released?
- Kling 4.0 was released on 19 Oct 2026.
- Is Kling open source?
- No. Kling 4.0 is closed: the weights are not released and it is available through an API or app only.
- Where can I use Kling?
- Kling 4.0 is available via Official API and Consumer app.
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