Veo 3
The video model that generates sound too: native dialogue, SFX, music.
About
Veo 3, announced at Google I/O on May 20, 2025, was the first major AI video model to generate audio natively — lip-synced dialogue, sound effects, and music composed alongside the visuals, not bolted on after. 8-second 720p/1080p clips from text or images; 70M+ videos generated in the first two months per Google. Veo 3.1 (Oct 2025) added reference images, first/last-frame control, scene extension, and 4K; 3.1 became free for Google accounts (Apr 2026, daily limits). Access: Gemini app, Flow, YouTube Shorts, Gemini API, Vertex AI. Proprietary; API preview priced at $0.75/second at launch.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
No standard benchmarks; independent 2025 comparisons vs Sora: Veo 3 led on native audio and physics, Sora on imaginative storytelling — qualitative.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric); released 511 days ago. Manual review: video-gen benchmark: first native audio (dialogue/SFX/music), 70M+ videos in ~2mo; Veo 3.1 Oct 2025, 3.1 free tier Apr 2026; closed, per-second pricing, 8s clips. License: Proprietary — closed weights.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · released 511 days ago
- · manual review: video-gen benchmark: first native audio (dialogue/SFX/music), 70M+ videos in ~2mo; Veo 3.1 Oct 2025, 3.1 free tier Apr 2026; closed, per-second pricing, 8s clips