Pika launches $10-a-month API Club
Video-generation startup Pika is now reselling access to more than 100 third-party AI models through a single paid-membership API, and says its prices run up to 88% below rival aggregators.
Pika announced the Pika API Club, a membership platform that gives developers one API covering more than 100 video, image, audio, speech and LLM models. The company says members pay prices up to 88% lower than other API aggregators.
Membership costs $10 a month. Members pay for usage on top of the fee, and new members receive $10 in credit for their first month. Pika says it negotiates rates with model providers and keeps its own markup low. It argues that some aggregators charge markups as high as 3×. Its published comparisons include a 5% platform fee and are current as of August 4, 2026.
The launch catalog includes Seedance 2.0, MiniMax H3, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Grok Imagine Video and Pika's own Pika 2.5. It also offers GPT Image 2, Seedream, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs, MiniMax Music, Claude and Gemini. In one example, Pika says three 15-second Seedance 2.0 videos would save more than the $10 fee compared with Runway API's 480p text-to-video pricing.
Pika says it won't always have the lowest price on every model. Its pricing page shows how its rates compare with other aggregators.
The company calls the API "agent-native." It provides setup instructions that developers can paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Cursor or Lovable. It is aiming the product at indie developers, designers, agencies and startups. Pika also offers enterprise plans with volume pricing, higher concurrency, reserved capacity and dedicated support.
Pika did not say which providers it negotiated discounts with, and it did not publish usage figures.