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Everything You Want to Hear
Introducing Pika Audio. Four frontier audio models. The lowest prices on the market.
August 14, 2026 • By Pika Team
At Pika, we’re building for a simple idea: outstanding generative media should be more accessible to more people.
Today, we’re taking the next step towards this goal with Pika Audio Models, our first family of frontier foundation sound models that cover the full generative audio spectrum:
- Pika Soundtrack turns video into synchronized music, speech, ambience, and motion-aware sound effects.
- Pika Music turns prompts, lyrics, voices, and reference tracks into complete songs.
- Pika SFX turns written direction into clean, prompt-faithful sound effects.
- Pika Speech turns text into expressive speech with preset voices or your own voice clone.
And we’ve made them the lowest-priced audio models on the market—up to 20× cheaper than other audio models.
How? Our research team has developed highly efficient training and inference techniques that let us generate exceptional outputs with radically less compute. We turn that efficiency directly into lower prices, so more people can experiment, iterate, and build with frontier audio.
Pika Audio Models are available now, exclusively through the Pika API Club.
Frontier audio, made more accessible
We’ve optimized the entire path from model to output: efficient modeling and training, few-step generation, and an inference stack engineered for speed.
This enables our models to be extremely efficient with time and cost:
- Pika Soundtrack is 0.617 / seconds and 2x more cost-efficient than Hunyuan Foley, the only model with comparable video-to-audio functionality.
- Pika SFX is up to 20x more cost-efficient than alternatives.
- Pika Speech is 9x more cost-efficient ElevenLabs v3, 4.5x more cost-efficient than Cartesia and ElevenLabs Turbo, and 2x more cost-efficient than Fish Audio.
- Pika Music is up to 10x more cost-efficient than comparable music models.
Four models. Everything you want to hear.
Use the model that fits the moment, or combine them. Soundtrack can make a video feel alive. SFX can give it one perfect detail. Speech can give it a voice. Music can give it its score.
Pika Soundtrack: Give every scene its sound
A silent video can show you what happened. Sound lets you feel it.
Pika Soundtrack turns video into a native soundtrack—complete with motion-aware sound effects, music, ambience, and voiceover that follow what happens on screen. Leave the prompt blank for a full soundscape, or direct what the model should emphasize, include, or leave out.
Making all of those layers feel like they belong in one scene is a synchronization challenge, because it’s not just sound generation with video attached. The model has to understand what is happening, place each sound at the right moment, and keep the soundtrack coherent through the full video. In our full-duration benchmark, Pika Soundtrack achieved the strongest semantic alignment and lowest audiovisual desynchronization of the models we tested, while covering 529 seconds of video at 0.617 seconds of wall time per generated second.
Compared with LTX-2.3 Foley V2A, HunyuanVideo-Foley, and MMAudio v2.
Exceptional audio-visual sync
Zero prompt to full soundscape
Input
Pika Soundtrack output
Pika Music: One model, many ways to make a song
Pika Music meets you wherever the idea starts. Give it a text prompt, lyrics, a vocal reference, a music reference, or a combination of inputs, and it generates a complete track up to six minutes long. A lyric can become a stripped-back ballad, a dance-pop record, or a cinematic rock performance. A vocal reference can shape the character and delivery of the performance. A reference track can become the starting point for something new.
The important part is composability: our model can bring all of these signals together, rather than forcing creators into separate workflows.
It’s fast, too. In our testing, Pika Music generated a 90-second song in 6.21 seconds on average—about 14.5× faster than playback. That means you can quickly try different lyrics, voices, and arrangements—and hear the results right away.
Text and lyrics to music
Voice-conditioned music
Voice reference
Pika Music output
Pika SFX: Write the sound you want
Need a glass shattering? A metal door slamming in an empty warehouse? A cork popping, fizzing, and pouring into a glass? Tell us about it.
Pika SFX turns natural-language direction into focused, ready-to-use sound effects for video, games, editing workflows, and creative tools. It can handle a single crisp event or a longer sequence with material, space, perspective, timing, texture, and mood. Ask for natural Foley, a cartoon whoosh, or a designed fantasy effect. The model follows the brief without adding unrelated speech, music, or background noise unless you ask for it.
Pika SFX can generate up to 20 seconds of 44.1 kHz stereo audio, and it’s built to keep iteration moving. In our local benchmark, it completed the end-to-end generation path in 0.847 seconds on average—fast enough to audition new directions while you are still making the work.
Prompt: A packed indoor sports stadium with a large crowd cheering, chanting, clapping and whistling continuously. Loud reverberant arena ambience, no music.
Prompt: Close-up Foley inside an antique mechanical clock. A steady pendulum produces precise tick-tock beats while tiny brass gears turn, the escapement clicks and the clockwork spring makes subtle metallic movements.
Pika Speech: Say it like you mean it
A good voice does more than read the words. It sets the tone.
Pika Speech is an expressive text-to-speech model built for the inflection, rhythm, and timbre that make narration, characters, and spoken moments feel human. Choose from preset voices or create a voice clone from only a few seconds of reference audio. Then direct the delivery with a caption: bright and brisk, low and reflective, crisp and formal, or something all your own.
Pika Speech generates 48 kHz audio, supports requests up to five minutes, and is fast enough to feel immediate. In our local tests, its real-time factor of 0.02 means a minute of speech takes about a second to create. That makes it practical to test the read, adjust the direction, and hear the next version before the thought has left the room.
Voice clone
Voice reference
Pika Speech output
Preset voice
More to hear. More to make.
Pika Audio Models are our first family of frontier foundation audio models—and they are just the beginning of how we plan to make exceptional generative media more accessible.
Whether you’re making a film, prototyping a game, building a product, telling a story, or chasing an idea that will not leave you alone, you now have a whole new set of ways to make it heard.
The models are live now in the Pika API Club. We can’t wait to hear what you make.
Pricing comparisons referenced here are current as of August 14, 2026, and based on model providers’ official list prices.