Vidu AI for ads

What Vidu makes for ads

Vidu AI is a video generator from Shengshu Technology. You give it a prompt, a picture or several reference images, and it returns a short clip. Vidu runs its Q3 and Q4 models in the web app at vidu.com and sells them to developers on its API.

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Reference-to-video is the feature ad makers come for. You upload images of a product or a character, and the model keeps them in every shot. That matters when a campaign needs ten hooks with the same bottle on screen.

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The AI Video Ad Generator page wraps this into three steps. You “upload your product images”, describe the camera move or backdrop, then “Set the duration, movement amplitude, resolution, and quantity”. It sizes clips at 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1, in “full 1080p resolution”.

The page calls the generator “free to use”, with “some premium features” on paid plans. Free clips still fall outside the commercial licence (terms s.3.4).

Paid cards allow clips of 3 to 16 seconds and four videos at once (pricing).

What Vidu credits buy

Vidu sells credits by the month. Standard costs $10 a month for 800 credits, Premium $43 a month for 3,500 and Ultimate $115 a month for 10,000, though the compare table lists 8,000 (pricing, prices checked 14 November 2026).

The cards price only one model: Q4 at 540P, 2 credits a second. On Standard that is $0.025 per second of video if every credit is used. Higher resolutions and the Q3 models cost more credits, and the app shows those rates only after sign-in.

Subscription credits last 30 days, and the pricing FAQ says Vidu is “unable to provide refunds”. Vidu pricing works out the cost per credit on every plan, the off-peak quotas and the API rates.

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Can you use Vidu clips in paid ads?

On a paid plan, yes, with conditions. Section 3.4 of the terms (3 July 2026) gives a personal licence and widens it for paying accounts:

“Vidu grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to access and use Vidu and Vidu Content for personal, non-commercial purposes, for paid users, this license extends to commercial use.”

The rights matrix marks Free as barred for ads and every paid plan as allowed with conditions. The licence is revocable. The terms do not say whether buying API credit packs alone makes you a “paid user”.

The licence also runs the other way. Under s.3.3, anything you make available through the service gives Vidu a “perpetual, irrevocable” licence, including “artificial intelligence training” and use “for operational, promotional, or commercial purposes”.

The terms define User Content as content “created, submitted, posted, or otherwise made available by you”. That reaches your product photos and, read with 3.2, the clips you generate. A brand’s unreleased packshot uploaded as a reference falls under the same grant.

Two rules in section 5 bear on ad delivery. You must not present “AI-generated output as human-generated content” (5.1.3), and you must not remove “watermarks associated with the Services” (5.3.5).

That first rule sits close to the platforms’ own AI labels: AI ad disclosure rules sets out what Meta and TikTok ask.

10 of 27 user reviews say Vidu ignores prompts

Vidu has few independent reviews: 27 public sources from September 2025 to September 2026, mostly Reddit’s r/viduai and Trustpilot. Praise centres on stylised motion and reference shots. Complaints centre on control over the output, and on credits that vanish with no reply from support.

The loudest one: the model “operates as it wants”, in one paying member’s words, ignoring prompts, source images and negative instructions (10 of 27 sources: Trustpilot, Reddit).

Few of the 27 sources mention paid-plan value, watermark removal, commercial rights or ad use.

Vidu (Shengshu) pros and cons

Vidu beside Kling, Hailuo and PixVerse

Kling members can use output commercially, which “is not restricted” apart from building competing products (paid terms 3.1.2). Non-members must carry the Kling brand on everything (7.2). Kling 3.0 at 1080p with audio costs 12 credits a second, so $0.18 a second for a member buying top-ups (3.0 guide, Credits Policy). See the Kling AI profile.

Kling’s Terms of Service s.3.1(d) and (e) still require written consent to use the Services to advertise. Paid terms 7.1 keep that section for members, and whether 3.1.2 overrides it is unclear.

Hailuo grants commercial rights to content “you generate and download while on a paid subscription plan” (Subscription Service Terms). Standard at $14.99 a month buys about 143 seconds of MiniMax H3 at 768P, so $0.10 a second if every credit is used. The Hailuo AI profile has the clauses.

Hailuo’s Terms of Service Content Standards bar content involving advertising, and the Subscription Service Terms say they prevail in a conflict (s.1.2).

Vidu’s $0.025 per second of video buys 540P, the lowest resolution of the three, so the figures compare price points, never like-for-like clips.

PixVerse let paid output be used commercially from 29 October 2026, but only from models PixVerse built (s.4.1). The PixVerse profile covers the change.

Kling fits 1080p clips with sound, if you hold a membership and accept the open consent question. Vidu fits the cheapest 540P drafts built from reference images, and Hailuo sits between them at 768P.

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  Kling AI

  Kuaishou’s video models (Kling 3.0, 3.0 Omni, Turbo) with native audio, multi-shot clips up to 15 s and native 4K.

  Price unverified

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  Hailuo AI (MiniMax)

  MiniMax’s app for the H3 video model, up to 15 s at 2K with native stereo sound, plus older Hailuo 02 and 2.3.

  From $14.99 a month · checked 14 Nov 2026

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  PixVerse

  PixVerse V6 video with native audio, a real-time world model, and hosted Seedance and MiniMax models.

  From $10 a month · checked 14 Nov 2026

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