Vidu Q3 API

About the Vidu Q3 API

What Vidu Q3 does, how it fits in the Shengshu model lineup, and why teams reach for it.

All Vidu Q3 API endpoints

12 endpoints available now on WaveSpeedAI — pick the variant that matches your workflow.

Image To Video Spicy

Vidu Q3 Image-to-Video Spicy generates unlimited high-quality videos from images with smooth animations and diverse motion, optimized for scalable content generation. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

image-to-videofrom $0.35

Text To Video

Vidu Q3 Pro Text to Video is a fast AI video generation model that creates high-quality, audio-capable videos from text prompts with support for 1–16 second outputs. Ready-to-use REST inference API for cinematic clips, advertising creatives, social media videos, product visuals, storytelling, and professional text-to-video workflows with simple integration, no coldstarts, and affordable pricing.

text-to-videofrom $0.25

Start End To Video

Vidu Q3 Pro Start-End-to-Video creates smooth transitions between two keyframes with viduq3-pro (1–16s). Billing follows Vidu's published Q3-pro per-second rates by resolution. Ready-to-use REST inference API on WaveSpeed.

image-to-videofrom $0.25

Start End To Video

Vidu Q3 Turbo Start-End-to-Video creates smooth transitions between two images with faster processing. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

image-to-videofrom $0.30

Start End To Video

Vidu Q3 Start End Image-to-Video turns text prompts into high-quality videos with exceptional visual fidelity and diverse motion. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

image-to-videofrom $0.35

Reference To Video

Vidu Q3 Reference-to-Video Mix generates multi-entity consistent videos from 1-4 reference images with text prompt guidance. Supports 360p to 1080p resolutions, up to 16 seconds duration, multiple aspect ratios, and optional audio generation. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

image-to-videofrom $0.35

Image To Video Pro

Vidu Q3 Image-to-Video Pro generates high-resolution videos (720p/1080p/2K/4K) from images with exceptional visual fidelity and diverse motion. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

image-to-videofrom $0.45

Image To Video

Vidu Q3 Pro Image-to-Video animates still images with high-quality motion via viduq3-pro (1–16s). Billing follows Vidu's published Q3-pro per-second rates by resolution. Ready-to-use REST inference API on WaveSpeed.

image-to-videofrom $0.25

Image To Video

Vidu Q3 Turbo Image-to-Video animates static images with high-quality motion and faster processing. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

image-to-videofrom $0.30

Text To Video

Vidu Q3 Text-to-Video turns text prompts into high-quality videos with exceptional visual fidelity and diverse motion. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

text-to-videofrom $0.35

Drama Clip

Vidu Q3 Drama Clip generates short 8-12 second script-driven drama clips from structured assets, including characters, scenes, and tools. It is designed for compact scenes, storyboard shots, and focused narrative moments.

image-to-videofrom $0.70

Image To Video

Vidu Q3 Image-to-Video turns text prompts into high-quality videos with exceptional visual fidelity and diverse motion. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

image-to-videofrom $0.35

See Vidu Q3 in action

Real outputs generated by the Vidu Q3 API. Hover any video to preview, click to open the full-size viewer.

How to use the Vidu Q3 API

Four steps from signup to a finished generation. Full Python, Node.js, and cURL examples are in the API section below.

1. 1

   Get an API key

   Sign up for a WaveSpeedAI account and copy your API key from the dashboard. New accounts come with free starter credits — enough to run the playground a few dozen times before billing kicks in.

2. 2

   Submit a prediction

   POST your input as JSON to https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/vidu/q3/text-to-video. The endpoint returns a prediction id immediately — generations are async so you don't hold an open connection during inference.

3. 3

   Poll for completion

   GET https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{request_id}/result every 1-2 seconds. The response includes a status field; keep polling until it flips from"queued" or"processing" to"completed".

4. 4

   Read the output URL

   Once status is"completed", read the URL from data.outputs[0]. The URL points to your generated media on the WaveSpeedAI CDN — image, video, audio, or 3D file depending on the Vidu Q3 variant you called.

What you can build with Vidu Q3

Common workflows developers and creators use the Vidu Q3 API for.

Tips for prompting Vidu Q3

Practical advice for getting better outputs from Vidu Q3 — drawn from the patterns that work across video models in production pipelines.

Vidu Q3 API pricing

Pricing is per-output. The final charge scales with the parameters you set in each variant's playground (resolution, duration, output count, references).

Call the Vidu Q3 API

Sign up for an API key at wavespeed.ai/accesskey, then submit a prediction via REST. The playground generates ready-to-paste samples for any combination of inputs.

# 1. Submit a prediction
curl -X POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/vidu/q3/text-to-video" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY" \
  -d '{}'

# 2. Poll the result until status = "completed"
curl -X GET "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{request_id}/result" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY"

# Read the output URL from data.outputs[0].

// npm install wavespeed
const WaveSpeed = require('wavespeed');
const client = new WaveSpeed(); // reads WAVESPEED_API_KEY

const result = await client.run("vidu/q3/text-to-video", {});
console.log(result.outputs[0]); // → URL of the generated output

# pip install wavespeed
import wavespeed

output = wavespeed.run(
    "vidu/q3/text-to-video",
    {}
)
print(output["outputs"][0])  # → URL of the generated output

Vidu Q3 vs alternatives

When to pick Vidu Q3 over similar models on WaveSpeedAI.

Vidu Q3 API — Frequently asked questions

Pricing, license, integration — common questions about running Vidu Q3 on WaveSpeedAI.

About Shengshu

The team behind Vidu Q3 and the broader Shengshu model lineup on WaveSpeedAI.

Shengshu Technology is a Chinese AI lab spun out of Tsinghua University, behind the Vidu family of video generation models. Vidu Q3 ships text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video (1-4 reference images for multi-entity consistency), and start-end-to-video (keyframe interpolation between two stills) across Standard, Pro, and Turbo tiers. Some variants support up to 16-second outputs.

Related model APIs on WaveSpeedAI

Other AI APIs from Shengshu and the rest of the video model lineup — one API key, one billing account.