Vidu Q3 Text to Video
vidu/q3/text-to-videoVidu Q3 is Shengshu's text-to-video AI model. Turn written scripts and prompts into professional-quality video clips with realistic motion, lighting, and scene composition.
- Base price
- $0.77USD / run
- Execution
- async
- Model type
- video
- Input fields
- 6
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Playground
Examples
Select an example to load its inputs and result into the playground.
Model card
Specifications
Pricing
- Base price
- $0.77 / run
Context & modalities
- Input
- Schema-defined
- Output
- video
Capabilities
- Chat
- Not supported
- Vision
- Not supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Structured output
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Not supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- Vidu
- Model ID
- vidu/q3/text-to-video
- Execution
- async
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Unified Run API
- Endpoint
- /v1/run
Human preference
Arena
Elo ratings from blind side-by-side votes, compared with other image and video models.
Rankings sourced from Artificial Analysis Arena
- Leaderboard
- Text to Video
- Rank
- #26 of 33
- Elo
- 900 ±17
- Gap to #1
- −243
Text-to-video arena (silent): people pick the better of two clips from the same prompt, without seeing the model names; audio is not judged.
- #21Veo 3.1 Fast959±17
- #22Veo 3.1 Lite941±17
- #23LTX-2.5 Fast929±17
- #24LTX-2.5 Pro928±17
- #25Runway Gen-4.5 (720p)909±18
- #26Vidu Q3 Pro900±17
- #27Vidu Q3 Turbo900±17
- #28Kling O1 Pro (January)887±18
- #29LTX-2.3 Fast844±18
- #30LTX-2.3 Pro836±18
API README
Vidu Q3 Text to Video
Vidu Q3 turns a prompt into a 1–16 second clip with native audio.
Fields
| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
prompt | string, required | — | Up to 2,000 characters. |
aspect_ratio | 16:9 / 9:16 / 4:3 / 3:4 / 1:1 | 16:9 | Output frame shape. |
audio | boolean | true | Generate native audio. Same price on or off. |
resolution | 360p / 540p / 720p / 1080p | 720p | Sets the per-second rate. |
duration | integer 1–16 | 5 | Output length in seconds. |
seed | integer | random | Fix it to compare prompt changes. |
Billing
You pay for output seconds: $0.07 at 360p or 540p, $0.154 at 720p, $0.16 at 1080p.
| Output | 540p | 720p | 1080p |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4s | $0.28 | $0.616 | $0.64 |
| 5s (default) | $0.35 | $0.77 | $0.80 |
| 8s | $0.56 | $1.232 | $1.28 |
| 16s | $1.12 | $2.464 | $2.56 |
Failed runs are not charged.
Prompting
- Describe subject, action, camera, and sound.
Also on SandBase
Other Vidu Q3 endpoints: vidu/q3/image-to-video, vidu/q3/reference-to-video/mix, vidu/q3/text-to-video/turbo, vidu/q3/image-to-video/turbo.
Start building
Send your first request
OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "vidu/q3/text-to-video",
"audio": true,
"prompt": "In an ultra-realistic fashion photography style featuring light blue and pale amber tones, an astronaut in a spacesuit walks through the fog.",
"duration": 5,
"resolution": "720p",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
sleep 2
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
"https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Type | Default price | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
Vidu Q3 Text to VideoThis model Vidu | Video | $0.77 / run | Jan 31, 2026 |
Vidu | Video | $0.47 / run | Oct 7, 2026 |
Vidu | Video | $0.47 / run | Oct 7, 2026 |
Vidu | Video | $0.77 / run | Apr 8, 2026 |
Vidu | Video | $0.39 / run | Feb 6, 2026 |
Vidu | Video | $0.39 / run | Feb 6, 2026 |
Questions
FAQ
How do I call Vidu Q3 Text to Video through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "vidu/q3/text-to-video" to Unified Run API (/v1/run) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
Do I need a separate Vidu account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Vidu Q3 Text to Video and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Vidu separately.
