Sora 2 Pro

• - 🎬 OpenAI's flagship text-to-video model, generating clips with synchronized audio.
• - 🆕 Released September 2025 as the higher-quality tier of Sora 2.
• - 🔊 Produces dialogue and sound effects synchronized to the generated video.
• - 🎯 Designed for physically accurate, realistic, controllable video generation.
• - 📏 Configurable clip durations and output resolutions through the API.
• - 👁️ Accepts text or image input to produce dynamic video clips.
• - 🔧 Exposed through OpenAI's video generation API for programmatic creation.
• - 🔒 Includes Responsible AI protections and content restrictions.

OpenAI

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Sora 2 Pro is OpenAI's most advanced media-generation model in the Sora line, described by OpenAI as state-of-the-art for generating richly detailed, dynamic video clips with synced audio from natural language or images. It launched on the same date as its sibling Sora 2, serving as the higher-fidelity tier within the Sora 2 generation, and is delivered through OpenAI's video generation API for programmatic creation and extension.

OpenAI characterizes the Sora 2 generation as more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable than prior systems, with synchronized audio generated alongside the video. The model accepts both text prompts and image references to produce dynamic clips, and Microsoft's hosting documentation similarly frames it as a text- and image-to-video system with synced sound.

The Pro variant focuses on quality. Through the API, generations expose configurable clip durations and output resolutions, with synchronized dialogue and sound effects emerging from the same prompt that describes the scene. OpenAI's documentation positions Pro as the higher-fidelity option within the Sora 2 family.

Sora 2 sits alongside OpenAI's broader catalog, including GPT Image 2 and the text-focused GPT-5.5 family. The hosted versions include built-in Responsible AI protections governing permitted content.