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Kling 4.0
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Summary
Kling 4.0 is an announced video model with stronger motion, multimodal references, and integrated audio handling. Its description lists 3 to 30 seconds, up to ten keyframes, 4K, and generated stereo audio with lip synchronization.
The full model is scheduled for October 2026. Since September 28, only the creation experience has been rolling out to a limited group. Kling 4.0 remains a preview rather than a generally available video or API model.
Video sample from our test
This video exists as a documented run for the exact model version. Playback is muted.
Motion and physical consistency
This sample tests Anatomy, object consistency, camera tracking, rain, and reflections.
Prompt and settings
Generate exactly one continuous five-second 16:9 cinematic video. A fictional bicycle courier in a mustard-yellow raincoat rides a red city bicycle from left to right across a rain-wet Hamburg street at blue hour for the entire clip. The camera tracks her smoothly at waist height. Both hands remain visible on the handlebars, the bicycle geometry stays physically correct, and a transparent umbrella fixed to the bicycle moves naturally in the wind. Wet-street reflections and raindrops follow realistic physics. No cuts, no slow motion, no text, no logos, no subtitles, and no audio.
Generated through fal.ai with model kling/v4/text-to-video. Archived settings were 16:9, one request, first output, prompt motion-and-physics, requested 5 s, provider-default audio (no switch), seed provider random, request {"prompt":"Generate exactly one continuous five-second 16:9 cinematic video. A fictional bicycle courier in a mustard-yellow raincoat rides a red city bicycle from left to right across a rain-wet Hamburg street at blue hour for the entire clip. The camera tracks her smoothly at waist height. Both hands remain visible on the handlebars, the bicycle geometry stays physically correct, and a transparent umbrella fixed to the bicycle moves naturally in the wind. Wet-street reflections and raindrops follow realistic physics. No cuts, no slow motion, no text, no logos, no subtitles, and no audio.","duration":5,"resolution":"720p","aspect_ratio":"16:9"}, configured price estimate $0.79, enforced estimate $0.79.
All benchmark results
Every published result with its source, test setup and comparison models.
Show all 29 individual results from 4 sources
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Measurements without matching peer values
These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.
SpicyAPI Freedom probe, Moderate text-to-video (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 0
- Score
- 0
- Metric
- Per-level Freedom points; report states 0.0 of 20.0 after one run, with 0% delivered
- Unit
- points
- Benchmark version
- SpicyAPI methodology v3.3; test dated 2026-10-16
- Category
- text-to-video content-ladder probe: Moderate
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 1
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- SpicyAPI Kling 4.0 test report
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-19
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Exact model route in the test report: kling/4.0/text-to-video. The Moderate content-ladder level has one run. The report records 0 delivered, 0 softened, 1 refused, 0% pass rate, confidence factor 0.6, and 0.0/20.0 level points. Methodology v3.3 scores delivered=1, softened=0.5, refused=0; prompts are not published. This is one per-level probe, not a total Freedom Score.
- Context
- This is a single vendor-run content-delivery probe, not an image/video quality score or a general safety verdict. The prompt is withheld, the benchmark vendor sells access to the model, and the published Freedom Score remains unavailable because only 2 of 6 probe types have been tested.
SpicyAPI Freedom probe, Very strong text-to-video (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 0
- Score
- 0
- Metric
- Per-level Freedom points; report states 0.0 of 20.0 after one run, with 0% delivered
- Unit
- points
- Benchmark version
- SpicyAPI methodology v3.3; test dated 2026-10-16
- Category
- text-to-video content-ladder probe: Very strong
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 1
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- SpicyAPI Kling 4.0 test report
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-19
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Exact model route in the test report: kling/4.0/text-to-video. The Very strong content-ladder level has one run. The report records 0 delivered, 0 softened, 1 refused, 0% pass rate, confidence factor 0.6, and 0.0/20.0 level points. Methodology v3.3 scores delivered=1, softened=0.5, refused=0; prompts are not published. This is one per-level probe, not a total Freedom Score.
- Context
- This is a single vendor-run content-delivery probe, not an image/video quality score or a general safety verdict. The prompt is withheld, the benchmark vendor sells access to the model, and the published Freedom Score remains unavailable because only 2 of 6 probe types have been tested.
SlopTV fixed 40-prompt video battery, overall score (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 4.76
- Score
- 4.76
- Metric
- Overall score on SlopTV's source-defined 0-to-5 scale.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Category
- video-generation
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 40
- Confidence interval
- 0.1
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. SlopTV's fixed core battery has 40 prompts. A vision model scores each clip blind against the original prompt on five dimensions from 0 to 5. Scores below 4 are checked frame by frame against the actual video. The captured table view is the v1-2026-10 round. SlopTV says it uses one access route per model, but the exact route for this row is not identified.
- Context
- The source describes one access route per model but does not identify this row's route or an immutable serving revision; this is not a checkpoint-pinned result.
SlopTV fixed video battery: Prompt fidelity (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 4.6
- Score
- 4.6
- Metric
- Blind prompt-fidelity dimension score on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 40
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. SlopTV's fixed October 2026 video battery; a blind vision-model score on a 0-5 scale. Its methodology says any score below 4 receives a frame-by-frame check against the original clip. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- Mean over the fixed 40-prompt core, scored by one blind vision model rather than a human panel. Clips below 4/5 receive an additional frame-by-frame check against the original video. No confidence interval for this cell is shown on the source model page.
SlopTV fixed video battery: Visual quality (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 4.86
- Score
- 4.86
- Metric
- Blind visual-quality dimension score on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 40
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. SlopTV's fixed October 2026 video battery; a blind vision-model score on a 0-5 scale. Its methodology says any score below 4 receives a frame-by-frame check against the original clip. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- Mean over the fixed 40-prompt core, scored by one blind vision model rather than a human panel. Clips below 4/5 receive an additional frame-by-frame check against the original video. No confidence interval for this cell is shown on the source model page.
SlopTV fixed video battery: Physics and motion (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 4.59
- Score
- 4.59
- Metric
- Blind physics-and-motion dimension score on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 40
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. SlopTV's fixed October 2026 video battery; a blind vision-model score on a 0-5 scale. Its methodology says any score below 4 receives a frame-by-frame check against the original clip. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- Mean over the fixed 40-prompt core, scored by one blind vision model rather than a human panel. Clips below 4/5 receive an additional frame-by-frame check against the original video. No confidence interval for this cell is shown on the source model page.
SlopTV fixed video battery: Subject consistency (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 5
- Score
- 5
- Metric
- Blind subject-consistency dimension score on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 40
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. SlopTV's fixed October 2026 video battery; a blind vision-model score on a 0-5 scale. Its methodology says any score below 4 receives a frame-by-frame check against the original clip. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- Mean over the fixed 40-prompt core, scored by one blind vision model rather than a human panel. Clips below 4/5 receive an additional frame-by-frame check against the original video. No confidence interval for this cell is shown on the source model page.
SlopTV fixed video battery: Audio and synchronization (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 4.75
- Score
- 4.75
- Metric
- Blind audio-and-synchronization dimension score on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 40
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. SlopTV's fixed October 2026 video battery; a blind vision-model score on a 0-5 scale. Its methodology says any score below 4 receives a frame-by-frame check against the original clip. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- Mean over the fixed 40-prompt core, scored by one blind vision model rather than a human panel. Clips below 4/5 receive an additional frame-by-frame check against the original video. No confidence interval for this cell is shown on the source model page.
SlopTV fixed video battery category: Multi-shot (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 5
- Score
- 5
- Metric
- Mean blind score for the Multi-shot category on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Category
- Multi-shot
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 4
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. Fixed core battery; this category's source row reports four runs. Blind vision-model rating on a 0-5 scale, with frame-by-frame review for any score below 4. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- A four-run category mean is a narrow subset, not an overall battery score.
SlopTV fixed video battery category: Image to video (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 5
- Score
- 5
- Metric
- Mean blind score for the Image to video category on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Category
- Image to video
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 4
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. Fixed core battery; this category's source row reports four runs. Blind vision-model rating on a 0-5 scale, with frame-by-frame review for any score below 4. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- A four-run category mean is a narrow subset, not an overall battery score.
SlopTV fixed video battery category: Faces (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 4.92
- Score
- 4.92
- Metric
- Mean blind score for the Faces category on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Category
- Faces
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 4
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. Fixed core battery; this category's source row reports four runs. Blind vision-model rating on a 0-5 scale, with frame-by-frame review for any score below 4. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- A four-run category mean is a narrow subset, not an overall battery score.
SlopTV fixed video battery category: Style (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 4.88
- Score
- 4.88
- Metric
- Mean blind score for the Style category on a 0-5 scale; higher is better.
- Unit
- rating
- Benchmark version
- SlopTV fixed core 40-prompt battery; round v1-2026-10
- Category
- Style
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Sample
- 4
- Source type
- independent-evaluator
- Evaluator
- SlopTV
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22
- Methodology
- Independent evaluation. Fixed core battery; this category's source row reports four runs. Blind vision-model rating on a 0-5 scale, with frame-by-frame review for any score below 4. Source-page verification: data verified 2026-10-21
- Context
- A four-run category mean is a narrow subset, not an overall battery score.
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Popularity compared
How often the model is searched for, used and mentioned, compared with every model of its category.
Popularity index
0 to 100, higher is more popular
20 of 98 models
As of November 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index
Over time
Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 5, 2026
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All specifications
Input and output
- References
- Up to ten image references and five video references with 30 seconds total
- Source: References
Watermarking and provenance
AI watermarking refers to invisible signals embedded in the output. Visible marks and provenance metadata are listed separately. Unknown means there is insufficient evidence for that particular field.
- AI watermarking
- Unknown
- no source
- Watermarking technique
- Not known
- no source
Licence and access
- Rollout
- Kling AI reports that Kling 4.0 has been rolled out to all users since October 15, 2026.
- Source: Rollout
API
- API model ID
- Kling AI offers the model on the web; Tencent TokenHub also documents the API alias `kling-video-v4`. This partner alias does not establish a native Kling API slug.
- Source: API model ID
Further details
- Input modes
- Text-to-video and image-to-video; also multimodal references and video editing.
- Source: Input modes
- Output limits
- Native generation up to 30 seconds; 720p, 1080p, and 4K. Kling lists 10-bit HDR for 1080p and 4K.
- Source: Output limits
- Native audio
- Kling advertises integrated stereo audio output and audio-video synchronization.
- Source: Native audio
Prices
- fal.ai (kling/v4/text-to-video)
- $0.785 per request (estimated)Source
At Kuaishou from ≈ €34.52 a month (Kling AI Pro, with limited credits). Through other providers from ≈ €9.54 a month (Krea Basic, with limited credits). 18 plans in Germany.
| Plan | Monthly price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Kling AI ProKuaishou | ≈ €34.52 | developer's own plan, with limited credit |
| Kling AI TeamKuaishou | ≈ €83.76 | developer's own plan, with limited credit, for teams, per seat |
| Kling AI PremierKuaishou | ≈ €85.84 | developer's own plan, with limited credit |
| Krea Basic | ≈ €9.54 | with limited credit |
| Runway Standard | ≈ €15.90 | with limited credit |
| Luma Plus | ≈ €31.81 | with limited credit |
| Krea Pro | ≈ €37.11 | with limited credit |
| Runway Pro | ≈ €37.11 | with limited credit |
| Higgsfield Plus | €70.21 | with limited credit |
| Runway Team | ≈ €73.16 | with limited credit, for teams, per seat |
| Luma Pro | ≈ €95.42 | with limited credit |
| Runway Max | ≈ €100.72 | with limited credit |
| Krea Max | ≈ €111.32 | with limited credit |
| Higgsfield Ultra | €153.51 | with limited credit |
| Krea Business | ≈ €212.05 | with limited credit, for teams |
| Luma Ultra | ≈ €318.07 | with limited credit |
| Luma Enterprise | n/a | for enterprises |
| Luma Team | n/a | for teams |
Frequently asked questions about Kling 4.0
How long can a video with Kling 4.0 be?
Up to 30 seconds in one go. Resolution: 4K.
According to Kuaishou
- Longest clip
- 30s
- Resolution
- 4K
- Audio
- yes, generated natively
- Open weights
- no
Where can I use Kling 4.0?
At Kuaishou with a subscription from ≈ €34.52 a month. Including other providers that makes 18 plans in Germany.
Subscription comparison, prices in Germany incl. VAT
At Kuaishou
3 plans, from ≈ €34.52 a month (Kling AI Pro).
Through other providers
15 plans from 4 providers, from ≈ €9.54 a month (Krea Basic), with limited credits.
Sources and data date
Show all 20 sources
Benchmark sources at a glance
Which independent evaluators tested this model. This is coverage, not a quality ranking.
No active result from the reviewed external evaluators can currently be attributed to this model. Other source evidence remains available below.
Without vendor claims and historical or disputed results; those stay labelled in the single values.
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Research status | Research date October 4, 2026. 17 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Not published | quality-benchmark Original wording No exact Kling 4.0 benchmark has been published during its limited-access period. Kling 3.x values are excluded. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | kling-4-0-exact-video-score Note The exact full model has no row in the checked AA or Arena Text-to-Video leaderboard snapshots. No Kling 4.0 Flash score is substituted. |
| Not published | kling-4-0-vendor-benchmark Note The official announcement describes the model and rollout but provides no quantitative benchmark. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | kling-4-0-independent-video-score Note Neither current AA video leaderboard contains an exact Kling 4.0 row; Kling 3.x and Kling 4.0 Flash are distinct variants. |
| Not published | kling-4-0-vendor-benchmark Note The checked official announcement does not publish a quantitative quality benchmark for Kling 4.0. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | kling-4-0-exact-video-benchmark Note No exact Kling 4.0 score was found in the checked current video leaderboards, and the official announcement publishes no numeric quality result. Kling 3.x and Kling 4.0 Flash remain separate identities. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | wiro-video-models-exact-row Note The inspected Wiro leaderboard has no exact model-version route. Nearby variants were not transferred. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | arena-video-edit-exact-row Note The inspected Video Edit table has no exact model-version row. T2V and I2V values were not reused. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | vabench-exact-model-row Note VABench has no exact model row. Sora 2 was not transferred to Sora 2 Pro or other models. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | arena-t2v-exact-row Note No exact Arena text-to-video observation was found in the checked data. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | arena-i2v-exact-row Note No exact Arena image-to-video observation was found in the checked data. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | artificial-analysis-t2v-exact-row Note No exact model version or resolution was found in the inspected Artificial Analysis table. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | artificial-analysis-i2v-exact-row Note No exact model version or resolution was found in the inspected Artificial Analysis table. |
| Unresolved | vbench-current-public-leaderboard Note The current VBench leaderboard is embedded in a dynamic Hugging Face iframe and was not retrievable; current scores remain unresolved. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | vidbenchmark-exact-row Note No exact model id is present in the 2026-08-04 dataset; similarly named variants were not transferred. |
| Additional source | Kuaishou (retrieved November 1, 2026)1234 |
| Additional source | fal.ai |
| Additional source | Kling AI Kling 4.0 announcement (retrieved October 3, 2026; October 4, 2026) · Kling AI Kling 4.0 announcement · Editorial description reviewed October 3, 2026 |
| Additional source | SpicyAPI Kling 4.0 test report (retrieved October 19, 2026) |
| Additional source | SlopTV (retrieved October 22, 2026)12 |
| Additional source | VideoModels.ai leaderboard (retrieved October 28, 2026) |
| Additional source | Model metadata (retrieved October 15, 2026; October 16, 2026) |
| Additional source | Model metadata (retrieved October 16, 2026; October 28, 2026) |
| Additional source | Model metadata (retrieved October 16, 2026)12 |
| Additional source | OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Ollama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index |
| Additional source | Replicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index |
| Additional source | Google Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US |
| Additional source | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |