Veo 3.1 vs Hunyuan Video
Compare Veo 3.1 and Hunyuan Video on pricing, free tier, open source, API, self-host, verdict and momentum.
Both are video tools. Veo 3.1 is freemium (free daily credits in Flow; Google AI Pro $19.99/mo (1000 Flow credits/mo); Ultra 5x $99.99/mo (10k Flow credits/mo) / 20x $199.99/mo (25k Flow credits/mo)) with an API, a free tier; Hunyuan Video is paid (Open weights, self-host infrastructure cost only; HunyuanVideo-1.5 hosted API ~$0.075/sec (480p) via fal.ai; Hunyuan 3D Rapid ~$0.02/image via Atlas Cloud) with open source, an API, self-hostable and a free tier. The catalog stamp is ship for Veo 3.1 and situational for Hunyuan Video, last verified 2026-09-01 and 2026-08-24 respectively.
Auto-paired from catalog data — the verdicts are hand-set, the pairing is algorithmic.
Veo 3.1
Google's video model with native audio generation — the current quality leader.
Hunyuan Video
Open-weights text/image-to-video generation model from Tencent.
| field | Veo 3.1 | Hunyuan Video |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | freemium · free daily credits in Flow; Google AI Pro $19.99/mo (1000 Flow credits/mo); Ultra 5x $99.99/mo (10k Flow credits/mo) / 20x $199.99/mo (25k Flow credits/mo) | paid · Open weights, self-host infrastructure cost only; HunyuanVideo-1.5 hosted API ~$0.075/sec (480p) via fal.ai; Hunyuan 3D Rapid ~$0.02/image via Atlas Cloud |
| free tier | yes | yes |
| open source | no | yes |
| api | yes | yes |
| self-host | no | yes |
| verdict | ship | situational |
| momentum | blueshift | blueshift |
| last verified | 2026-09-01 | 2026-08-24 |
| key limitation | Per-second API pricing is steep for experimentation. | No native audio; visual-only output. |
The call
Pick Veo 3.1 — we ship it; Hunyuan Video is situational for us.
Pick Hunyuan Video if open source matters.
Veo 3.1 sources
Hunyuan Video sources
Open live compare →Veo 3.1 pageHunyuan Video pageVeo 3.1.jsonHunyuan Video.json