Kling V3 Standard

• 🎬 Kuaishou's standard-tier image-to-video model in the Kling V3 generation.
• 🆕 Animates a starting image into a short clip following a motion prompt.
• 🔧 Exposed through Kling's official image-to-video API reference.
• 👁️ Takes a reference image plus text describing the desired motion.
• ⚡ Standard tier, positioned below the Pro variant in the lineup.
• 📚 Catalog notes cinematic quality and strength on human motion.
• 🗓️ Released February 2026 as part of the Kling V3 family.
• 🏢 Built by Kuaishou, the Chinese short-video company behind Kwai.

Kuaishou

Kuaishou Technology is a Chinese publicly traded company founded in 2011 by Hua Su and Cheng Yixiao, headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Originally known for its massively popular short-video platform —…

Kling V3 Standard is the standard-tier image-to-video entry in Kuaishou's Kling V3 generation, released in February 2026. You supply a starting image and a prompt describing the desired motion, and the model animates that image into a short clip. The image-to-video capability is documented in Kling's official API reference. Within the V3 lineup it is the standard tier, sitting below Kling V3 Pro, with the catalog describing it as offering "cinematic quality" and strength on human motion and editorial scenes.

Kling V3 succeeds Kuaishou's earlier releases, including Kling 2.6 Pro and Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro from the 2.x line. Independently verified benchmark figures comparing these generations were not available among trustworthy sources at the time of writing, so generational differences are not quantified here.

Kuaishou ships several V3 variants alongside this standard image-to-video model, including Kling V3 4K for text-to-video and a separate Kling O3 Standard line. The capabilities described above are drawn from Kuaishou's official API documentation rather than from scored, independent comparisons.