# Kling V2.1 Master

> Kling V2.1 Master is available on Artifio.ai — a unified AI workspace with a single pay-as-you-go wallet.

- Canonical page: https://artifio.ai/models/kling-v2-1-master-text-to-video
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/kling-v2-1-master-text-to-video
- Modality: prompt to video
- Model brand: Kling
- Pricing: from about $0.160 per second (exact cost shown in the workspace before you confirm; varies with selected options)
- Typical generation time: ~300s (catalogue estimate)
- Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models

## About Kling V2.1 Master

Kling V2.1 Master is the top quality mode of the Kling 2.1 lineup that Kuaishou released in May 2025, and this variant is its text-to-video mode: it generates a clip directly from a written prompt with no source image required. Kling is the video generation line from the Beijing company behind the Kwai short-video platform. It first opened for public testing in June 2024, and Wikipedia describes the service as generating videos from natural language descriptions, with 2.1 adding tiered quality modes.

Artifio runs the model alongside its full catalogue in one workspace, billed per generation from a single wallet.

## Features

- Generates video directly from a natural language prompt.
- The Kling family outputs video at up to 1080p and 30 frames per second across a range of aspect ratios.
- The highest of the three quality modes (Standard, Pro, Master) introduced with the May 2025 release.
- Built on a diffusion transformer with Kuaishou's self-developed 3D variational autoencoder for synchronous spatiotemporal compression.
- A full-attention spatiotemporal module captures fast-moving objects and drastic scene changes.

## What people use it for

- Generating scene concepts from a script line when no reference imagery exists yet.
- Cinematic establishing shots and b-roll described in plain language.
- Previsualization for ads and short films before a shoot is planned.
- Prompt-driven exploration of camera moves and staging ideas.

## Reported strengths

- Motion that follows physical laws, which Kuaishou attributes to the 3D spatiotemporal joint attention design.
- Improved prompt adherence and temporal consistency over the 1.6 and 2.0 generations.
- Detail rendering in faces and hands improved relative to earlier Kling versions.

## Reported limitations

- Kuaishou documents the 2.1 release at family level and publishes little tier-specific detail, so most claims here apply to the family rather than to Master alone.
- Kling 2.1 produces silent video; synchronized audio generation arrived later in the line with Video 2.6.
- The highest cost per clip in the 2.1 lineup.
- Content rules aligned with Chinese government regulations refuse politically sensitive prompts.

## Sources

1. Kling AI (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kling_AI
2. Kling AI Launches 2.5 Turbo Video Model: Industry-Leading Performance, Now More Affordable (Kuaishou Technology): https://ir.kuaishou.com/news-releases/news-release-details/kling-ai-launches-25-turbo-video-model-industry-leading
3. 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

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