Veo 3.1 API Guide
Using Veo 3.1 in 2026: Complete Guide to API, Pricing, and Prompting
Learn how to use the Veo 3.1 API with pricing, fast mode, prompting guidance, and text-to-video or image-to-video workflows.
Latest Release
Introducing Veo 3.1 & Veo 3.1 API
Create cinematic videos with Veo 3.1 from Google, the latest Veo AI API built on the Veo 3 architecture. Experience sharper realism, smoother motion, and richer audio fidelity - or revisit Veo 3 for the earlier model.
Veo 3.1 Playground
Advanced text/image to video generation with Veo 3.1
Configuration
Describe the video you want Veo 3.1 to generate.
Result
IdleThis shows preset sample previews. Sign in and click 'Generate video' to create your own.
Logs
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Examples via Veo 3.1 API
Text-to-Video 1
A chef in an open kitchen flips a pan of sizzling vegetables, steam rises realistically, ambient kitchen sounds and soft jazz in background; camera slowly orbits the counter showing fresh ingredients and smiling customers.
Text-to-Video 2
A young woman cycles along a coastal boardwalk at golden hour; wind in hair, camera pans alongside; natural ambient sounds of waves and wind, realistic light reflections on sunglasses, warm cinematic tone.
Text-to-Video 3
A street musician performs under a dimly lit bridge at night; soft guitar chords echo with natural reverb, nearby crowd claps in rhythm, camera circles slowly revealing wet pavement reflections and passing cars; warm, emotional cinematic lighting.
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Veo 3.1 Core Features
1
Enhanced Realism & Fidelity
The Veo 3.1 API captures true-to-life textures, lighting, and physics for production-quality storyboarding and direction-driven storytelling powered by Veo AI.
2
Improved Prompt Understanding
Built on Veo 3, Veo 3.1 delivers better prompt adherence, accurately translating complex text and visual cues into context-aligned scenes for T2V and I2V generations.
3
Richer Native Audio & Dialogue
With Veo AI API, creators can generate natural speech, ambient layers, and multi-speaker dialogue synchronized perfectly with visual output.
4
Ingredients to Video
The Veo 3.1 API supports up to three reference images to guide generation, giving developers precise control over characters, objects, and visual style across scenes.
5
Scene Extension
Extend clips to one minute or longer using the Veo 3.1 API, maintaining visual continuity and background audio, ideal for cinematic storytelling and long-form creative output.
6
First and Last Frame Control
Define exact start and end frames with the Veo AI API, ensuring smoother transitions and stronger narrative direction in every generated video.
7
Object Insertion
Easily integrate new objects into scenes using the Veo AI API, while maintaining lighting, perspective, and photorealistic consistency.
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SOTA Performance
Veo 3.1 achieved state-of-the-art results in human-rated benchmarks - ranking highest on T2V and T2VA ( MovieGenBench ) across 1,003 prompts and 527 audio-enabled prompts respectively, and outperforming in I2V (VBench ) for 355 image-text pairs. It excels in realism, physics, and prompt adherence, setting new standards for generative video quality.
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Veo 3.1 Fast Variant
An optimized version of Veo 3.1, the Veo 3.1 Fast API allows developers to create videos with sound while maintaining high quality and optimizing for speed, ideal for scalable, rapid creative workflows.
Veo 3.1 API Pricing
"Pay-as-you-go" Option
Veo 3.1-video | audio
$0.24 /second
Veo 3.1-video | no audio
$0.12 /second
Veo 3.1-video-fast | audio
$0.09 /second
Veo 3.1-video-fast | no audio
$0.06 /second
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