Sora 2 Pro

• 🎬 OpenAI's most advanced video generation model, image-to-video variant.
• 🆕 Animates uploaded reference images with motion, lighting, physics.
• 🔊 Generates clips with synchronized dialogue and sound effects.
• 🎯 Improved physics realism and multi-shot controllability over prior systems.
• 🔧 Image must match target resolution; supports JPEG, PNG, WebP references.
• 🏢 Released September 2025 via OpenAI's Videos API.
• 👁️ Outputs cinematic, realistic, and anime styles from reference frames.

OpenAI

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Sora 2 Pro is OpenAI's image-to-video model, the "Pro" tier of the Sora 2 generation released in September 2025. OpenAI describes Sora 2 Pro as its "state-of-the-art, most advanced media generation model," producing richly detailed, dynamic clips with synced audio from either natural language or images. In this image-to-video configuration, you supply a reference image as the input that the model animates according to a text prompt describing motion, lighting, and physics; the image must match the target video resolution and be supplied as JPEG, PNG, or WebP.

Sora 2 Pro sits alongside its same-family siblings: the standard Sora 2 image-to-video model, the Sora 2 text-to-video variant, and the Sora 2 Pro text-to-video tier. The Pro models are positioned as the higher-quality option above the standard Sora 2 line.

Compared with the original Sora, OpenAI states the Sora 2 generation is "more physically accurate, realistic, and more controllable than prior systems," and adds synchronized dialogue and sound effects that earlier Sora lacked. OpenAI highlights better adherence to the laws of physics — modeling realistic outcomes such as a missed basketball rebounding off the backboard rather than teleporting — and a leap in controllability, following intricate multi-shot instructions while persisting world state.

The model supports image-to-video generation, video extensions that continue a completed clip using the full source as context, and reusable character references, all exposed through OpenAI's Videos API.