# Kling V2.6

> Kling V2.6 is available on Artifio.ai — a unified AI workspace with a single pay-as-you-go wallet.

- Canonical page: https://artifio.ai/models/kling-2-6-text-to-video
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/kling-2-6-text-to-video
- Modality: prompt to video
- Model brand: Kling
- Pricing: from about $0.055 per second (exact cost shown in the workspace before you confirm; varies with selected options)
- Typical generation time: ~200s (catalogue estimate)
- Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models

## About Kling V2.6

Kling V2.6 is the generation of Kuaishou's Kling video model that launched on December 3, 2025, and its headline change is simultaneous audio-visual generation: one pass produces the picture together with voices, sound effects, and ambient sound, instead of the older workflow of a silent clip followed by separate audio work. This variant is the text-to-video mode, generating an audio-visual clip from a written prompt alone.

On Artifio it runs alongside more than 100 other models in one workspace, paid per generation from a single wallet.

## Features

- Generates video and audio together in a single pass from a text prompt.
- Audio output covers speech, dialogue, narration, singing, rap, ambient sound, and mixed sound effects.
- Voice generation in Chinese and English.
- Clips of up to 10 seconds.
- Custom voice upload lets creators reuse a recognizable character voice across multiple clips.
- Voice rhythm, ambient sound, and visual motion are coordinated so speech lands on the character's mouth movement.

## What people use it for

- Advertising and marketing clips that need a spoken line delivered in one generation.
- Social media skits, narration pieces, and singing or rap performances.
- E-commerce product presentations with a voiceover baked in.
- Serialized character content where an uploaded voice keeps episodes consistent.

## Reported strengths

- One-pass audio plus video removes the separate dubbing and syncing step from short-form production.
- Kuaishou reports strong audio-visual synchronization and semantic understanding, with Chinese voice generation as a particular strength.
- Motion quality carries over the gains of the 2.5 Turbo generation that preceded it.

## Reported limitations

- Clips are capped at 10 seconds, shorter than the 15 seconds of the later Kling 3.0 generation.
- Voice generation covers only Chinese and English; the 3.0 generation added Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
- On the Artificial Analysis text-to-video arena the Kling 2.6 Pro entry sat mid-table as of July 2026, well behind the Kling 3.0 entries and the leading Seedance 2.0.
- Content rules aligned with Chinese government regulations refuse politically sensitive prompts.

## Sources

1. Kling AI Launches Video 2.6 Model with Simultaneous Audio-Visual Generation Capability (Kuaishou Technology): https://ir.kuaishou.com/news-releases/news-release-details/kling-ai-launches-video-26-model-simultaneous-audio-visual
2. Kling 2.6 adds voice control and motion upgrades as AI video tools race toward realism (The Decoder): https://the-decoder.com/kling-2-6-adds-voice-control-and-motion-upgrades-as-ai-video-tools-race-toward-realism/
3. Text to Video Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis): https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video
4. Kling AI (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kling_AI

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