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Introducing Pika Soundtrack

A model that turns video into a synchronized, full-scene soundscape — motion-aware sound effects, voice, music, and ambience that follow the action.

Introducing Pika Soundtrack

Introducing Pika Music

A new music generation model for turning creative direction into finished tracks — from text, lyrics, a reference voice, an existing track, or any combination.

Introducing Pika Music

Now Hear This: Pika SFX

A new model that turns a written description into a focused, ready-to-use sound effect in real time — from a single event to a complete sound sequence.

Now Hear This: Pika SFX

Say Hello to Pika Speech

Our text-to-speech model: a 3B flow-matching transformer that generates studio-quality 48 kHz speech, clones a voice from seconds of reference audio, and runs at a 0.02 real-time factor.

Say Hello to Pika Speech

Everything You Want to Hear

Pika Audio is our first family of frontier foundation sound models: Soundtrack, Music, SFX and Speech. Up to 20x cheaper than comparable audio models, available now through the Pika API Club.

Everything You Want to Hear

Welcome to the Pika API Club

A membership platform that gives builders access to 100+ leading video, image, audio, and LLM models through one API — at prices up to 88% cheaper than other API aggregators.

Welcome to the Pika API Club

Get Your Product Out There

Four specialized Pika MCP skills that give technical founders the power to promote their products — build a brand, generate app store screens, a sizzle video, and a founder video.

Get Your Product Out There

Every Breakthrough Starts With an Experiment

We're opening up the Pika workshop — sharing rough experiments, prototypes, and tools still taking shape so you can test early explorations and make them your own.

Every Breakthrough Starts With an Experiment

Your Pika Agent Just Got a Job

We're making it possible for your Pika Agent to earn real money — every conversation, every skill used, every interaction counts.

Your Pika Agent Just Got a Job

Introducing Real-Time Video Chat for Agents

Today, we're making it possible to have a face-to-face, real-time conversation with any AI agent. Because we believe that most people would prefer to interact with AI as they do with other humans.

Introducing Real-Time Video Chat for Agents