AI Video Generator

Sora 2

Generate AI video with Sora 2 — text to video and image to video, all from one Vidney workspace.

Text to VideoImage to Video96–288 credits per generation

Output

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Sora 2 specifications

Output: Video
Task modes: Text to Video · Image to Video
Tiers: Pro
Duration: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 seconds
Resolution: 720p · 1024p · 1080p
Aspect ratios: 16:9 · 9:16
Audio: Supported
Cost: 96–288 credits per generation
Family: sora
Setup: No API key or provider account required

What it does

What Sora 2 does well

Physics-governed motion

Sora 2's defining strength is world simulation. It models gravity, momentum, buoyancy, fluid behavior and collision well enough that movement looks caused rather than animated. A diver displaces water and the splash settles, a stack of blocks topples and the pieces scatter with believable weight, a cloth catches air and falls instead of sliding. Where lighter models smear or morph through hard motion, Sora 2 keeps objects solid and their interactions consistent with how matter actually behaves. For anything that has to read as real footage, a stunt, a pour, a crash, this physical plausibility is the reason to choose it over a model tuned for stylized look.

Synchronized native audio

Sora 2 generates sound in the same pass as the picture, so a clip arrives already speaking and breathing rather than silent. It produces spoken dialogue with believable lip-sync, ambient room tone that suits the space, and effects tied to on-screen action. A character can deliver a line with mouth shapes that track the words, while the quiet hum of the room sits underneath and grounds the moment. Because voice, ambience and effects are conditioned on the visuals, you get a coherent audio bed instead of a clip waiting for a separate sound pass. It is not a finished mix, but the take already plays as a real recorded moment.

Dense single-prompt adherence

Sora 2 follows long, detailed instructions closely, which changes how you write for it. You can specify the subject, the setting, the action, the lighting, the mood and the camera behavior in one paragraph and expect most of those elements to survive into the render rather than a model latching onto two words and ignoring the rest. This rewards precise direction: the more exactly you describe a beat, the closer the output tracks your intent. For creators who think in fully specified shots rather than loose vibes, that fidelity to a dense prompt is what makes Sora 2 feel directable instead of approximate.

State held across cuts

Sora 2 keeps people, objects and scene state coherent when one prompt asks for several shots. A character's clothing, a prop's position, the time of day and the established geography stay consistent from one cut to the next, so the world does not quietly reset between angles. Crucially, the physical truth carries too: an object that was wet stays wet, something knocked over stays down. This is continuity of a simulated world, not just a matching face, which is what lets a multi-beat prompt hold together as a believable place rather than separate generations that happen to share a subject.

How Sora 2 compares

Specs side by side with similar models — all runnable on Vidney.

	Sora 2	Kling O1	Wan 2.6	HappyHorse 1.0
Task modes	Text to Video · Image to Video	Text to Video · Image to Video	Text to Video · Image to Video	Text to Video · Image to Video
Duration	4, 8, 12, 16, 20 seconds	5, 10 seconds	5, 10, 15 seconds	2–15 seconds
Resolution	720p · 1024p · 1080p	720p · 1080p	720p · 1080p	720p · 1080p
Audio	Supported	No audio track	Supported	No audio track
Cost	96–288 credits per generation	102 credits per generation	75–126 credits per generation	126 credits per generation

Real samples

Sample gallery

Real Sora 2 output, generated on Vidney — these are actual results, not stock or fabricated examples.

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No setup, no API keys

Run Sora 2 straight from your browser. Vidney handles provider access, billing, and storage — you just write a prompt.

Multiple task modes

Sora 2 supports text to video and image to video in the same workspace, so you can switch task types without leaving the page.

Transparent credit pricing

Every video run costs 96–288 credits per generation. The cost is shown on the button before you spend a credit — no surprise metering.

Who reaches for Sora 2

Sora 2 is the model people open when a shot has to obey the real world. OpenAI's model simulates gravity, momentum, buoyancy, fluid and collision closely enough that motion reads as governed by physics rather than morphed into place, so a spilled drink pools, a thrown object arcs and lands, and a body carries its own weight through a fall. Narrative directors staging dialogue beats, ad teams who need spoken lines with believable lip-sync, and creators making physics-heavy action turn to it for that plausibility, plus native audio generated in the same pass. It also follows long, dense prompts faithfully, holding many stated details at once. The fair comparison is Runway Gen-4 Turbo: pick Runway when you want a thirty-second render loop and region-level motion painting, and you can score the clip yourself afterward. Pick Sora 2 when the deliverable lives or dies on physical truth and synced sound, and you would rather write one detailed instruction than brush motion by hand. Within Vidney, Sora 2 sits a click away from those faster tiers, so you can prototype loosely and bring the keeper here to finish.

Put it to work

What you can make with Sora 2

Physics-heavy action shots

Generate the kind of beat that betrays weaker models the instant matter has to behave: water breaking over rocks, a vehicle skidding and settling, a body absorbing a fall, debris scattering from an impact. Sora 2's simulation keeps mass, momentum and collision consistent, so the action reads as captured rather than animated. You describe the event in detail and the model resolves the forces, instead of smearing through the hard frames. For stunt previz, disaster beats, and any shot where an audience would instantly clock fake motion, this physical truth is the practical reason to run it here over a model that prioritizes a stylized surface.

Dialogue scenes with sound

Make a clip where a character actually speaks and the audio arrives with it. Sora 2 generates the spoken line with lip movement that tracks the words, plus room tone and ambient texture that place the voice in a real space. Write the line and the staging, and you get a take where delivery and picture land together rather than a mute clip you have to dub and foley later. This suits short narrative moments, character explainers, and social pieces that need a voice baked in. It is a strong fit whenever what is said carries the shot as much as what moves across the frame.

Realistic narrative beats

Build a grounded story moment where the whole point is that nothing breaks the illusion: a person setting down a cup, rain running down a window, a hand turning a key. Sora 2's physical plausibility and close prompt-following let you specify the small true details that sell a scene, and it holds them through the take. This is the registry of work where realism matters more than spectacle, the quiet, believable shot rather than the kinetic one. Filmmakers and storytellers use it to render beats that need to feel observed, drafting moments that read like footage from a real set instead of obviously synthetic clips.

Sound-baked social video

Produce short vertical pieces that arrive complete, picture and audio together, ready to post without a separate sound pass. Sora 2 bakes in dialogue, ambience and effects synced to the action, so a clip plays as a finished moment straight out of generation. For creators shipping fast to feeds where muted, silent video underperforms, having believable sound locked to the picture is the difference between a usable post and raw footage. Describe the scene and the line in one detailed prompt, and the model returns a self-contained clip; from there you can run a few variations in Vidney to find the take that hits.

How to generate video with Sora 2

01
Open Sora 2
Open the Sora 2 workspace on Vidney and pick your task type (text to video and image to video).
02
Describe your output
Write a prompt describing the video you want, and upload a reference image for image-driven modes. Set aspect ratio and duration as needed.
03
Generate and download
Spend 96 credits to run Sora 2. When the generation completes, download the result from your account.

Tutorials & community

Real tutorials and discussions about Sora 2 from across the web.

Introducing Sora 2

OpenAI · YouTube

How to Use Sora 2 (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

Kevin Stratvert · YouTube