Vidu

Vidu is a generative video AI platform from Shengshu Technology (ShengShu / 生数科技), built on the company's U-ViT diffusion-transformer architecture. The Vidu API turns text prompts, still images, and reference subjects into short video clips with features like text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video (multi-entity / character consistency), start-and-end frame interpolation, and video upscaling. The API is a REST create-then-poll service - callers submit an asynchronous generation task, then poll the task status endpoint (or receive a callback) for the finished video URL. Access is open to individual developers and businesses on a prepaid, credit-based model with no application required.

Vidu publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Generation API and Tasks API. Tagged areas include Video Generation, AI Video, Generative AI, Image-to-Video, and Reference-to-Video.

The Vidu catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Vidu’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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18.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 48/100 going silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Video Generation AI Video Generative AI Image-to-VideoReference-to-VideoU-ViTDiffusion Models

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 18.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 0.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 23.1 — up to +19.2 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Vidu Generation API

Create asynchronous video-generation tasks.

Vidu Tasks API

Poll, list, and cancel generation tasks.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Vidu Generation API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vidu Generation Tasks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vidu API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vidu API pricing

Not yet checked against Vidu's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-11 from platform.vidu.com/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Pay-as-you-go Credits usage	—
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Concurrent Generation Tasks: see provider documentation tasks
Credit Balance: prepaid balance credits
Submission Rate: see provider documentation requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Vidu's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Vidu Ai Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Vidu Ai Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Vidu

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Vidu Ai Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Vidu API Rules

59 rules · 57 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Vidu Ai Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Vidu Ai Agentic Access

6 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: vidu-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vidu-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Vidu
kind: company
description: Vidu is a generative video AI platform from Shengshu Technology (ShengShu / 生数科技), built on the company's U-ViT
  diffusion-transformer architecture. The Vidu API turns text prompts, still images, and reference subjects into short video
  clips with features like text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video (multi-entity / character consistency), start-and-end
  frame interpolation, and video upscaling. The API is a REST create-then-poll service - callers submit an asynchronous generation
  task, then poll the task status endpoint (or receive a callback) for the finished video URL. Access is open to individual
  developers and businesses on a prepaid, credit-based model with no application required.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vidu-ai.png
tags:
- Video Generation
- AI Video
- Generative AI
- Image-to-Video
- Reference-to-Video
- U-ViT
- Diffusion Models
tags_raw:
- Video Generation
- AI Video
- Generative AI
- Text-to-Video
- Image-to-Video
- Reference-to-Video
- U-ViT
- Diffusion
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: vidu-ai:vidu-ai-generation-api
  name: Vidu Generation API
  description: Create asynchronous video-generation tasks.
  humanURL: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/text-to-video
  baseURL: https://api.vidu.com/ent/v2
  tags:
  - Generation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vidu-ai-generation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/text-to-video
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/7207545m0
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vidu-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vidu-ai.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/image-to-video
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/reference-to-video
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/334378351e0
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/start-end-to-video
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/334381323e0
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/7207545m0
- aid: vidu-ai:vidu-ai-tasks-api
  name: Vidu Tasks API
  description: Poll, list, and cancel generation tasks.
  humanURL: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/text-to-video
  baseURL: https://api.vidu.com/ent/v2
  tags:
  - Task
  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vidu-ai-tasks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/text-to-video
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/7207545m0
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vidu-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vidu-ai.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/image-to-video
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/reference-to-video
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/334378351e0
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs/start-end-to-video
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/334381323e0
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.platform.vidu.com/7207545m0
common:
- url: https://www.vidu.com/blog
  type: Blog
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/vidu-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vidu-ai-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/shengshu-ai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shengshu-technology
- type: Website
  url: https://www.vidu.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://platform.vidu.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/vidu-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/vidu-ai-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/vidu-ai-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Vidu API — frequently asked questions

Does Vidu have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Vidu, including Vidu Generation API and Vidu Tasks API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Vidu API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Vidu, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Vidu API?

Vidu uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Vidu Ai Authentication.

How much does the Vidu API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Vidu, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Vidu API ready for AI agents?

Vidu has a Kin Score of 18.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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