AI video generator that creates dynamic videos from text prompts with audio, supporting multiple reference images for character and style control, and vertical video generation for social media.
Veo 3.1 is a Video Generation AI model from Google DeepMind that creates dynamic, high-fidelity videos from text prompts with synchronized audio, supporting multiple reference images for character and style consistency, with access included in Gemini's Freemium plans starting free and scaling through Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscriptions. It targets content creators, marketers, filmmakers, and social media producers who need fast, cinematic video output without a production crew.
Released in October 2025 as an upgrade to Veo 3, Veo 3.1 extends Google's text-to-video lineup with richer native audio generation, improved narrative control, and the ability to ingest up to three reference images to lock characters, wardrobe, and visual style across shots. The model is accessible through the Gemini app for consumer users, through Google's Flow filmmaking tool for creators, and via the Vertex AI and Gemini API for developers building video pipelines. Outputs support both cinematic 16:9 and vertical 9:16 framing, making it equally suited for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Shorts. Generation lengths of up to 8 seconds per clip can be extended by chaining scenes together inside Flow.
Key capabilities include prompt-driven ambient sound, dialogue, and music synced to on-screen action, first-and-last-frame interpolation for controlled transitions, and the ability to insert or remove objects from generated scenes. Compared to the dozens of other video generation tools in our directory of 870+ AI tools â including Runway Gen-4, Sora 2, Kling 2.1, and Luma Dream Machine â Veo 3.1 stands out for its tightly integrated native audio (most competitors still require a separate TTS or scoring step) and its distribution scale through the Gemini consumer app used by hundreds of millions of people. It is less flexible than Runway for timeline-style editing and less open than Kling for long-form motion, but it offers the strongest out-of-the-box "prompt-to-finished-clip-with-sound" experience currently available from a major lab. Pricing flows through Google's consumer subscriptions: limited free prompts in Gemini, expanded daily quotas on Google AI Pro at $19.99/month, and the highest limits plus 1080p output on Google AI Ultra at $249.99/month.
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Veo 3.1 generates dialogue, ambient sound, and background music as part of the same pass as the video, with audio timed to on-screen events. This removes the most common extra step in AI video workflows â scoring and voicing â and is a significant differentiator from Runway Gen-4, Kling, and Luma Dream Machine, which still output silent clips.
Creators can supply up to three reference images that Veo 3.1 uses to lock character appearance, costume, and visual style across a generation. This makes it practical to produce multi-shot sequences where the same character or product looks consistent, which has historically been one of the hardest problems in text-to-video.
Users can specify start and end frames and let Veo 3.1 generate the motion between them. Inside Google Flow this is used to chain clips into longer narratives, because each new scene can inherit the previous clip's final frame. It gives creators timeline-level control without needing a full NLE.
The model produces both 16:9 cinematic widescreen and 9:16 vertical video from the same prompt pipeline. That makes it a practical single tool for creators who need to repurpose the same concept across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Shorts without recropping or regenerating from scratch.
Veo 3.1 can add or remove specific objects from a generated scene while preserving the rest of the composition and motion. This turns the model into a lightweight editing tool as well as a generator, letting creators iterate on a shot without starting over â useful for product swaps, brand placements, and cleanup.
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Veo 3.1 launched in October 2025 as the successor to Veo 3, adding native synchronized audio generation (dialogue, ambient sound, and music), support for up to three reference images for character and style consistency, first- and last-frame interpolation for controlled transitions, and object insertion/removal inside generated scenes. It is distributed through the Gemini app, Google Flow, the Gemini API, and Vertex AI, and remains gated to users 18 and older with SynthID watermarking on every output.
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