AI video tools, tested by actually running them

PickaSi tests AI video tools by actually running them. Every tool we rank has been run by us on the same fixed briefs and the same fixed assets — same prompt, same script, same source files — with credits, retries, wall-clock time, and failures logged, and cost calculated per usable finished minute. Anything we have not run ourselves is labeled “vendor claim — not tested.” Some links on PickaSi are affiliate links; they never change a score or a ranking.

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• Sora Is Gone. Here Is Where Your Workflow Goes Next. — The Sora Migration Center: the honest map of what happened, what to save before it disappears, and where each job actually goes now, based where possible on tools we have run ourselves, on the same prompts, with the costs logged.
• We Ran the Same Six Prompts Through Kling, Veo, and Runway. Here Is the Scored Result. — The scored evidence article behind the comparison frame in the Sora Migration Center: six briefs, three tools, the same prompt, word for word, in every tool.
• Same Script, Three Free Tiers: One Finished Clean, One Watermarked Itself, One Refused to Start — The Sprint B free-tier test: ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and HeyGen run the same frozen 228-word explainer script on $0 plans — one clean finish, one watermarked demo, one 60-second wall. Paid tiers explicitly not tested.
• What AI Video Tools Actually Pay Affiliates — And What the Listicles Get Wrong — What each program pays according to its own current terms, how long it pays, what we could not verify from public pages, and which widely-cited figures are stale.

How this site works

• How We Test — the published protocol and weights behind every score.
• Disclosure — how PickaSi makes money, plainly.
• Corrections — what we do when we get something wrong.