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Pika pricing, reviewed

How Pika has priced its AI from January 2025 to now — the rung, the moves, and where it's headed.

  • CompanyPika (Pika Labs)
  • CategoryMedia generation
  • AudienceConsumer
  • PatternStatic
  • Last observedJun 2026
  • Confidencehigh
  1. Jan 2025 Rung 3 · Hard allotment
  2. Now Rung 3 · Hard allotment

Held one rung all window — pattern: Static.

The short version The pricing model has not moved on the continuum over the window.

The verdict

Within the study window Pika has been static at hard allotment. Every plan is a fixed monthly credit budget that does not roll over; exhausting it blocks further generation until you buy a credit pack, with no automatic overage and no 'unlimited*' fair-use tier. The soft-meter label actually fits Pika's pre-window model: the June 2024 page carried explicit Unlimited and 'Infinite credits' tiers plus a daily refill-to-30 floor, so users were throttled, never blocked. That softness ended with the Pika 2.0 relaunch around December 2024, when Pika discontinued the Unlimited plan — citing misuse — and moved everyone onto credit-capped tiers. Since January 2025 only credit counts and model access have shifted (notably Pro 2,000 to 2,300) at unchanged price points ($8/$28/$76 billed annually; $10/$35/$95 monthly).

Current pricing snapshot

As published on Pika's own pages · captured Jun 12, 2026. Unit: video credits.

PlanPrice / moIncludedAt zeroTop-up vs plan
Free Free 80 Unstated —
Standard $10 700 Hard stop Yes · price hidden
Pro $35 2,300 Hard stop Yes · price hidden
Fancy $95 6,000 Hard stop Yes · price hidden
Credit ↔ dollar
Not pegged — a credit is not a fixed $
Credit burn rate
Varies by model / action
Model choice
You pick the model
Free tier
80 credits, per month
Billing
Monthly or annual · 20% off annual
Included credits
Unstated
Purchased credits
Unstated

What changed

No dated repricing events are itemized for Pika in this edition's log — consistent with a model that has held its shape over the window. New moves are added to the change log as they're captured.

Where it's headed

Prices have held across the window while credit counts drift; with the unlimited tiers already retired, future change is more likely in credits-per-dollar than in the hard-stop mechanic itself.

A read on the likely next move from where Pika sits today — association, not a forecast (the panel is observed, not sampled). How the continuum works →

Sourced from Pika's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.