Discontinued — the Sora 2 models and the Videos API were shut down on 2026-09-24 and are no longer available; no replacement model is listed[1]
OpenAI's video model, discontinued in 2026: the Sora web and apps closed on 2026-04-26[2] and the Videos API on 2026-09-24[1]. Kept here only as a sourced historical record — no Sora 2 video can be generated today.
Pricing
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| API price, 720p with audio (per second) | $0.10/s sora-2 historical $0.30/s sora-2-pro historical[1][3] |
| API price, 1080p with audio (per second) | $0.70/s (sora-2-pro) historical[3] |
| API price, 4K (per second) | No public data |
| API billing basis | Per second of generated video, with native audio included; tiered by model and output resolution — sora-2 $0.1/s (720x1280 / 1280x720); sora-2-pro $0.3/s (720x1280 / 1280x720), $0.5/s (1024x1792 / 1792x1024), $0.7/s (1080x1920 / 1920x1080) historical[3] |
| Cheapest paid consumer plan | No public data |
| Consumer plan ladder | No public data |
| In-app cost per second | No public data |
| Free tier | No public data |
Output specs
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Max length, single generation | 20 s historical[4] |
| Max length with extensions | 120 s historical[4] |
| Max output resolution | 1080p (sora-2-pro) historical[3] |
| Frame rate | No public data |
| Aspect ratios | Portrait and landscape only, as fixed resolution pairs: 720x1280 / 1280x720 (both models); 1024x1792 / 1792x1024 and 1080x1920 / 1920x1080 (sora-2-pro) historical[3] |
| Max reference inputs per generation | No public data |
Features
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Native audio | Yes historical[1] |
| Lip-sync | No public data |
| Text-to-video | Yes historical[1] |
| Image-to-video | Yes historical[4] |
| First / last frame control | No public data |
| Multi-shot in one generation | No public data |
| Video editing | Yes (edits endpoint) historical[4] |
| Video extension | Yes historical[4] |
Access
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Status | Discontinued — the Sora 2 models and the Videos API were shut down on 2026-09-24 and are no longer available; no replacement model is listed[1] |
| Public API | Yes historical[1] |
| Where to use it | None today. Until 2026-04-26: Sora web and apps; until 2026-09-24: OpenAI Videos API historical[2] |
| Regional limits | No public data |
| Release date | 2025-09-30[5] |
Public leaderboards
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| LMArena text-to-video score | 1368 ±7 (sora-2-pro)[6] |
| LMArena text-to-video rank (of 48) | #11 (sora-2-pro)[6] |
| LMArena image-to-video score | No public data |
| LMArena image-to-video rank (of 48) | No public data |
| VGI-Bench overall score | 36.7[7] |
Where Sora 2 appears on this site
Veo 3 vs Sora · Sora vs Kling · Seedance 2.5 vs Sora 2 · Alternatives guides
All head-to-head comparisons
Kling vs Veo 3 · Veo 3 vs Sora · Sora vs Kling · Seedance 2.5 vs Sora 2 · Kling 3.0 vs Seedance 2.5 · Veo 3.1 vs Seedance 2.5 · Kling 3.0 vs Runway Gen-4.5 · Veo 3.1 vs Runway Gen-4.5 · Luma Ray3.2 vs Kling 3.0 · Minimax H3 vs Kling 3.0 · Minimax H3 vs Veo 3.1 · Wan 3.0 vs Kling 3.0 · Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0 · Veo 3.1 vs Veo 3.1 Lite · PixVerse V6 vs Kling 3.0 · Vidu Q3 vs Kling 3.0
Evidence
Only official sources are cited: vendor pages, and leaderboard publishers for their own rankings. Anything we could not find on such a page is shown as “No public data”.
- OpenAI API — sora-2 model page — OpenAI. developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/sora-2. Checked 2026-10-06
- What to know about the Sora discontinuation — OpenAI Help Center. help.openai.com/en/articles/20001152-what-to-know-about-the-sora-di…. Checked 2026-10-06
- OpenAI API — sora-2-pro model page — OpenAI. developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/sora-2-pro. Checked 2026-10-06
- OpenAI API — Video generation guide — OpenAI. developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/video-generation. Checked 2026-10-06
- Sora 2 is here — OpenAI. openai.com/index/sora-2. Checked 2026-10-06
- Text-to-Video Arena leaderboard — LMArena (arena.ai). arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-video. Checked 2026-10-06
- VGI-Bench leaderboard (EMNLP 2026) — VGI-Bench research team. hexuan21.github.io/VGI-Bench. Checked 2026-10-06