Best AI Video & Audio Tools in 2026
Generative video, AI music, voice synthesis and media editing tools for creators, podcasters and marketers.
63 tools in this category, ranked by quality score.
Meta: Muse Spark 1.2
Meta
Muse Spark 1.2 is a reasoning model from Meta, designed for complex agentic tasks.
Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
Gemini 3.6 Flash is a high-efficiency model from Google for coding, agentic workflows, and web and app development.
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities.
Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
Meta
Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta, built for agentic tasks.
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)
Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model, bringing near-Pro level coding and reasoning at…
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads.
Google Gemini Pro Latest
This model always redirects to the latest model in the Google Gemini Pro family.
Google Gemini Flash Latest
This model always redirects to the latest model in the Google Gemini Flash family.
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2.5 is a native omnimodal model by Xiaomi. It delivers Pro-level agentic performance at roughly half the…
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases.
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools is a variant of Gemini 3.1 Pro that improves tool selection behavior by preventing…
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance…
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and…
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and…
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)
Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding…
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch)
Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s state-of-the-art AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and…
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s state-of-the-art AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and…
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06
Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s state-of-the-art AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and…
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs sets the standard for AI voice, offering remarkably natural text-to-speech, voice cloning and dubbing in…
Runway
Runway
Runway is a pioneer of generative video, offering text-to-video, image-to-video and a full suite of AI-powered editing…
Auto Router (Beta)
Openrouter
Auto Router (Beta) is a task-aware router from OpenRouter. It classifies each request, then routes it the [most popular…
Auto Router
Openrouter
Your prompt will be processed by a meta-model and routed to one of dozens of models (see below), optimizing for the…
Suno
Suno
Suno is a leading AI music generator that creates full songs — vocals, lyrics and instrumentation — from a simple text…
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Thinkingmachines
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active…
Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Thinkingmachines
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters…
Descript
Descript
Descript reinvents audio and video editing by letting you edit media as easily as editing a text document.
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview
Full-length songs are priced at $0.08 per song. Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available…
Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview
30 second duration clips are priced at $0.04 per clip. Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available…
Synthesia
Synthesia
Synthesia creates studio-quality videos with realistic AI avatars and voiceovers from a script — no camera or crew.
Pika
Pika Labs
Pika is a generative video platform known for fun, fast and accessible video creation with playful 'Pikaffects'.
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Nano Omni is a 30B-A3B open multimodal model designed to function as a perception and context…
HeyGen
HeyGen
HeyGen generates avatar videos and offers instant video translation with lip-sync across languages.
Kling AI
Kuaishou
Kling AI is a high-fidelity text/image-to-video model from Kuaishou, known for long, coherent, physically realistic…
Luma Dream Machine
Luma AI
Luma's Dream Machine generates smooth, cinematic video from text and images with natural camera motion.
Opus Clip
Opus
Opus Clip turns long videos and podcasts into viral short clips with auto-captions, reframing and a virality score.
D-ID
D-ID
D-ID animates still photos into talking-head videos and powers real-time interactive AI avatars (Agents).
VEED.IO
VEED
VEED is a browser-based video editor with AI subtitles, avatars, translation and clip tools.
Resemble AI
Resemble AI
Resemble AI is a developer-focused voice platform for high-quality cloning, real-time TTS and speech-to-speech, with…
Murf AI
Murf
Murf is an AI voiceover studio with natural voices for narration, e-learning and ads, plus voice cloning and a video…
Kapwing
Kapwing
Kapwing is a collaborative online video editor with AI tools for repurposing, subtitles and text-to-video.
OpenAI: GPT Audio
OpenAI
The gpt-audio model is OpenAI's first generally available audio model. The new snapshot features an upgraded decoder…
OpenAI: GPT Audio Mini
OpenAI
A cost-efficient version of GPT Audio. The new snapshot features an upgraded decoder for more natural sounding voices…
Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507
Mistral AI
Voxtral Small is an enhancement of Mistral Small 3, incorporating state-of-the-art audio input capabilities while…
Colossyan
Colossyan
Learning & Development focused video creator. Use AI avatars to create educational videos in multiple languages.
Fliki
Fliki
Create text to video and text to speech content with ai powered voices in minutes.
Pictory
Pictory
Pictory's powerful AI enables you to create and edit professional quality videos using text.
Hailuo AI
Hailuoai
AI-powered text-to-video generator.
Google Flow
Labs
An AI filmmaking tool from Google, powered by Veo.
Seedance 2.0
Bytedance
An image-to-video and text-to-video model developed by Niobotics ByteDance.
MaxVideoAI
Maxvideoai
A workspace for generating and comparing videos across multiple AI video models.
Affogato
Affogato
Create AI-generated product video ads for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
Autodesk Flow Studio
Autodesk
AI-powered tool for animating and compositing CG characters into live-action footage.
WellSaid
Wellsaid
Convert text to voice in real time.
Wispr Flow
Wisprflow
Flow makes writing quick with seamless voice dictation for any application on your computer.
Vibe Transcribe
Github
All-in-one solution for effortless audio and video transcription.
Harmonai
Harmonai
We are a community-driven organization releasing open-source generative audio tools to make music production more…
Mubert
Mubert
A royalty-free music ecosystem for content creators, brands and developers.
MusicLM
Github
A model by Google Research for generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions.
AudioCraft
Metademolab
A single-stop code base for generative audio needs, by Meta. Includes MusicGen for music and AudioGen for sounds.
AIVA
Aiva
AI-based music generation assistant. Choose from 250+ styles.
Udio
Udio
Discover, create, and share music with the world.
OpenAI Presence
OpenAI
Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and…
Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
Hugging Face
Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI — announced by Hugging Face.
How to choose a video & audio tool
We track 63 video & audio tools, of which 21 offer a free tier. Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 currently leads on our quality score.
When choosing a video & audio tool, weigh four things: capability on your specific tasks, pricing (free tier vs. monthly vs. per-token), how well it fits your existing workflow and integrations, and how actively it's maintained. Start with a shortlist of two or three, trial them on a real task, and let the results decide.