How Bolly compares to other AI video and image generators

Viggle

AI character swap and animation app

Viggle is a character animation platform built on its own JST (Joint Space-Time) model. Its Meme Maker swaps characters into clips with Mix, Multi-Editor and real-time Live, and Viggle also offers PINOC 3D motion capture, games, a model library and an API.

Higgsfield Genjutsu

Video-to-video character and object swap tool

Genjutsu is Higgsfield's video-to-video tool, launched in September 2026. It takes a 4 to 30 second clip plus up to 30 reference images and either swaps a character, outfit, location or object, or keeps only the motion and rebuilds the rest. Creator tutorials for the Hotel Lobby AI video use it.

Pollo AI

Multi-model AI video suite

Pollo AI is an AI creative suite for creators and marketers that puts models like Veo, Kling, Seedance, Wan and MiniMax H3 next to its own Pollo models. It adds 200+ video effects, apps for ads and viral clips, Pollo Agent, a Marketing Studio, and iOS and Android apps.

PixVerse

AI video generator with templates

PixVerse is an AI video platform built on its own models, led by PixVerse V6, with a template library, an agent, a node-based Canvas, a CLI and mobile apps. Its Pro plan and up also include outside models such as Seedance 2.5, Kling O3 and MiniMax H3.

Higgsfield

AI video and image creative suite

Higgsfield is a browser-based AI creative suite that pairs its own models, including Soul for photos, DoP for cinematic image-to-video, Speak for lipsync and Genjutsu for editing existing video, with third-party models such as Seedance, Kling, Veo and Nano Banana. It adds studios for cinema, marketing and lipsync, plus an MCP server, a CLI and a ChatGPT plugin.

OpenArt

AI video and image creator studio

OpenArt is a web-based AI creator studio that bundles 100+ image, video and audio models from other developers with its own tools, including Director for chat-based video, Character Builder, One-Click Story and 3D Worlds. It connects to AI agents through an MCP server and a CLI.

Leonardo.Ai

AI image and video platform

Leonardo.Ai, part of Canva, is an AI image and video platform that pairs its own models, Phoenix and Lucid for images and Motion 2.0 for video, with third-party models such as GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0 and Veo 3.1. It also offers 3D and audio generation and runs on the web and in iOS and Android apps.

Krea

AI image and video suite

Krea is an AI creative suite for images, video and 3D that combines its in-house Krea 2 image model and real-time generation with a large catalog of third-party models such as Nano Banana 2, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0 and Veo 3.1. It also offers LoRA training, the Krea Nodes workflow editor, Krea Agent, an API, an MCP server and an iOS app.

Sora

OpenAI's discontinued AI video app

Sora was OpenAI's AI video app, built on the Sora 2 model, which generated video with synchronized dialogue and sound effects and let you put yourself into scenes with cameos. OpenAI discontinued the Sora app and sora.com on April 26, 2026, and set September 24, 2026 as the shutdown date for the Sora 2 API.

Kling AI

Kuaishou's AI video app

Kling AI is Kuaishou's AI video and image app and the home of its Kling VIDEO 3.0 and 3.0 Omni models, with native audio, clips up to 15 seconds, Motion Control and native 4K output. It runs on the web and in iOS, Android, macOS and Windows apps.

Google Veo

Google's AI video model

Veo is Google DeepMind's video generation model, and its current version, Veo 3.1, makes clips with native audio. Google offers it in Google Flow, paid with Flow credits that come with Google AI plans or a daily free allowance, and to developers through the Gemini API, while the Gemini app is moving its video generation to Gemini Omni.

Runway

AI video and image platform

Runway is an AI video and image platform with its own models, such as Gen-4.5, Aleph 2.0 and Act-Two, plus third-party models like Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.5, all paid for with Runway credits. It runs on the web and in iPhone and Android apps.

Hailuo AI

MiniMax's AI video app

Hailuo AI is MiniMax's video and image app and the home of the MiniMax H3 and H3 Max video models, alongside earlier Hailuo models. Paid plans add Veo 3.1 and Sora 2, and the app includes image models, Hailuo Agent, lip sync and music tools, and themed templates.

Pika

Multi-model AI creative platform

Pika is an AI creative platform that relaunched on September 17, 2026 with 25+ apps for video, image and sound. It runs its own models, like Pika 2.5, Pikaframes and Pikaffects, alongside third-party models such as Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 and Veo 3.1.

Luma AI

AI creative agents and video models

Luma AI has folded Dream Machine into the Luma app, a creative workspace on the web and iOS where Luma Agents plan and generate image, video and audio on an infinite canvas. It runs Luma's own Ray3.2 video and Uni-1 image models alongside third-party models like Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 and Seedance.

Midjourney

AI image and video generator

Midjourney is an AI image generator that runs its own models; V8.2 has been the default since July 24, 2026. Its video mode animates an image into 5-second clips you can extend to 21 seconds, and you use it on midjourney.com or in Discord.

HeyGen

AI avatar and translation platform

HeyGen is an AI video platform built around avatars: you write a script and a stock or custom avatar presents it. It also translates videos into 175+ languages and dialects with voice cloning and lip-sync, and adds team tools for marketing and training video.