Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video API

pixverse/v5.5/image-to-video
PixVerse V5.5 transforms static images into dynamic videos with precise motion control and audio integration.
Output
$13 / 1K tokens
Released
Dec 8, 2025

Overview

PixVerse V5.5 Overview

PixVerse V5.5 is an image-to-video generation system that transforms a single reference image into smooth, multi-second animations with detailed motion, camera dynamics, and scene coherence at high resolution. It focuses on preserving the original composition and style while adding natural physics, character animation, and cinematic camera moves, making it suitable for trailers, ad creatives, and social content.

Technical Specifications

  • Model Version: PixVerse V5.5‍
  • Modality: Image-to-Video (with optional Text-to-Video support)‍
  • Input: Single image (JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF) + text prompt‍
  • Output: MP4 video

Performance Benchmarks

The model ranks highly in global image-to-video benchmarks for prompt alignment, lifelike details, and motion smoothness.

Output Quality and Temporal Performance

V5.5 focuses heavily on frame-to-frame stability, reducing artifacts such as flicker, warping, or identity shifts in long camera paths or complex scenes. Generated clips exhibit coherent lighting and shading evolution over time so that dynamic effects like glow, reflections, or volumetrics remain plausible as the camera or subjects move.

Quality Highlights

  • Strong temporal consistency for faces, characters, and structural elements over the entire sequence.​
  • Noticeably fewer distortions in fast-moving sequences compared with earlier PixVerse iterations.​
  • Robustness to diverse input content, from anime to photoreal portraits.

Focused Upgrades

  • Enhanced temporal modeling, reducing wobble and structural drift over longer clips.​
  • Better preservation of key visual anchors (logos, text-like regions, central characters).​
  • More predictable responses to motion intensity parameters, making fine-tuning easier.

API Pricing

Per clip, single clip, no audio:

  • 360p / 540p
    • 5s: $0.585
    • 8s: $1.17
    • 10s: $1.287
  • 720p
    • 5s: $0.78
    • 8s: $1.56
    • 10s: $1.716
  • 1080p
    • 5s: $1.56
    • 8s: $3.12

With audio (single clip): +$0.105 per clip

  • 360p / 540p
    • 5s: $0.715
    • 8s: $1.30
    • 10s: $1.417
  • 720p
    • 5s: $0.91
    • 8s: $1.69
    • 10s: $1.846
  • 1080p
    • 5s: $1.69
    • 8s: $3.25

Practical impact

For creators, V5.5 turns static concepts into shareable motion pieces in minutes, reducing reliance on traditional animation or video production resources. Marketing teams and agencies can rapidly prototype and iterate motion ideas from design boards or key visuals, then polish selected clips in conventional editing tools.

Generation Code Sample

Output Code Sample

Comparison with Other Models

vs Kling AI: PixVerse prioritizes cost-effective smooth motion and style retention across resolutions, generating accessible videos quickly.

vs Runway: PixVerse provides detailed artistic tweaks and multi-clip audio for creative flexibility at lower entry barriers.

vs Luma Dream Machine: PixVerse delivers faster renders with strong character consistency and control over elements like camera moves.

Use cases

  • AI-Powered Storyboarding: Turn concept art into animated scene previews with dialogue.
  • Social Media Content: Create engaging short-form videos from product images or character designs.
  • Indie Film & Game Prototyping: Rapidly visualize multi-shot sequences without live actors or cameras.
  • Interactive Customer Avatars: Generate personalized video responses from user-uploaded portraits.
  • Educational & Training Simulations: Animate historical figures, customer service scenarios, or language practice dialogues.

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How to use Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to pixverse/v5.5/image-to-video.
import requests, time

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}
job = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations",
    headers=headers,
    json={
      "model": "pixverse/v5.5/image-to-video",
      "prompt": "A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range"
    },
).json()
gid = job["id"]

while True:
    res = requests.get(f"https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id={gid}", headers=headers).json()
    if res.get("status") in ("completed", "error"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(res["video"]["url"])
const headers = {
  Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
};
const job = await (await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations", {
  method: "POST",
  headers,
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "pixverse/v5.5/image-to-video",
    "prompt": "A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range"
  }),
})).json();

let res;
do {
  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5000));
  res = await (await fetch(`https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id=${job.id}`, { headers })).json();
} while (!["completed", "error"].includes(res.status));
console.log(res.video.url);
# submit the generation — the response contains the job "id"
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"pixverse/v5.5/image-to-video","prompt":"A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range"}'

# then poll until status is "completed" — video.url holds the result
curl "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id={id}" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY"

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video API Pricing

TypePrice
Output
$13 / 1K tokens

Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
$13 / 1K tokens
Video generation
$0.2 / sec (variable)
Video generation
$1.95 / 1M tokens
$0.10136 / sec
Video generation
$0.0711 / sec
Cinematic video + native audio

Frequently asked questions

Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video takes image as input and returns video.

Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video became available on December 8, 2025.

Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video is priced at $13 / 1K tokens.

Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video is billed per generation — a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.

Yes, Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video accepts image input as well as a text prompt.

Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video was built by PixVerse.

Send a request to v2/video/generations with pixverse/v5.5/image-to-video as the model id.

Yes. Pixverse v5.5 Image-to-Video is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.

Yes, it produces audio-visual synchronization along with the generated video.

Yes, it supports multi-shot camera control as part of its feature set.

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