Place to run it · Pictures, Video, Voice and speech, Talking presenters, 3D

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A pay-as-you-go service for running many AI models through code or a web playground: image, video, speech, 3D, and talking-avatar and lip-sync models from various makers. You pay per image, second or generation, or rent GPUs by the hour.

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At a glance

Open or closed: Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
The service itself is closed; it hosts both open-weight and closed models.
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Licence: fal Terms of Service (The maker's own terms)
Third-party models may carry their own terms (s.14b). Users must not be in US-embargoed countries (s.21).
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Can I sell what I make?: Depends on the model you choose
Terms licence the service for personal or internal business use (s.4a) and claim no rights in outputs (s.2c), but don't expressly grant commercial rights; hosted models may add their own terms (s.14).
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Cost: No free plan.
Plans below.
How you use it: Maker's own API, In your browser
Each model page has a sign-in-to-run web form plus an API schema.
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Skill needed: Technical
Mainly an API for developers; a web form exists per model.
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Made by: Features & Labels, Inc. (fal) (US)
Terms give a notice address in San Francisco, California.
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Status: Available
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What you can make with it

A video, from a description (main use)
A picture, from a description
A video, by bringing a photo to life
A talking presenter, a talking version of a photo
A voice or speech, read my text aloud
A 3D object or scene, from a photo

text to imageimage to imagetext to videoimage to videoaudio to videotext to audioimage to 3D modeltext to 3D model

Avatar and lip-sync models listed include OmniHuman v1.5, VEED Fabric 1.0, Creatify Aurora, HeyGen Avatar V, Sync Lipsync, Kling LipSync. Other tasks from the pricing page's model list.

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Plans and prices

Plan	Price	Includes
Kling v2.5 Turbo Pro, image to video (per second)	$0.07 per seconds of video
FLUX.1 dev (per megapixel)	$0.025 per image	Billed per megapixel, rounded up; a standard 1 MP image = 1 unit.
ElevenLabs TTS Multilingual v2 (per 1,000 characters)	$0.10 per 1000 characters of text
H100 80GB GPU (list price per hour)	$4.50 per 3600 seconds of computer time

Some plans are not listed here; see the source for the full list.

Pay per use; each model has its own unit; examples only, from the pilot read of the pricing page (not re-read in this pass). '$' shown, USD assumed. Terms: promotional credits expire after 90 days, purchased credits after 365 days.

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Rights and safety

Trains on your work?: The terms don't say clearly
Inputs used only to provide the service (s.6a), but anonymised or aggregated usage data derived from inputs may be used to develop fal's AI models (s.6c).
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Real faces and voices: Copies a real face (talking-photo and lip-sync models), you only promise you have permission
Copies a real voice (voice-cloning models), you only promise you have permission
No face or voice rules in the terms; you confirm you hold all rights and consents for your inputs (s.6d). Which voice-cloning models are hosted was not re-checked; varies by model.
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Models you can run here

FLUX.1 [dev], Wan 2.1, Hunyuan3D 2

Other options for “A video, from a description”

Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Premiere, Akool, Animoto, Arcads, Canva AI (Magic Studio), CapCut, Civitai, CogVideoX, ComfyUI, Creatify, DeeVid AI, DomoAI, Dreamina, Dzine, Filmora, FlexClip, Fliki, Fotor, Genmo, getimg.ai, Google Flow, Hailuo AI

About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.

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