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Sora 2

Flagship video generation model that produces high-quality dynamic videos with synced audio from natural language or image prompts.

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Sora 2 at a glance

Context window

400K tokens

Cost

$0.1

per second

Why use Sora 2

Strengths, benchmarks, and where Sora 2 fits in your team's workflow.

1. Advanced Video Generation Capability

  • Produces richly detailed, cinematic video clips from simple text or image prompts.
  • Handles complex scenes, motion, lighting, environments, and multi-object interactions with high fidelity.

2. Synced Audio Generation

  • Generates audio that aligns with the timing, actions, and mood of the video.
  • Useful for creating complete media outputs without requiring external sound design.

3. Multi-Modal Input, Multi-Media Output

  • Accepts text and image inputs, enabling:
    • Storyboard-to-video workflows
    • Image-to-video transformations
    • Concept illustrations expanded into full scenes
  • Outputs video and audio, making it ideal for end-to-end content creation.

4. Resolution-Optimized Performance

  • Provides high-quality generation at:
    • Portrait: 720 x 1280
    • Landscape: 1280 x 720
  • Optimized for common mobile and web video formats used in social media, ads, and creative production.

5. Powerful Media Understanding

  • Interprets natural language with strong scene comprehension.
  • Capable of rendering realistic movement, physics, emotions, and atmosphere.
  • Suitable for:
    • Marketing videos
    • Short films and creative storytelling
    • Product demos and conceptual visualizations

6. Integrated Across Major API Endpoints

  • Supported in Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, Assistants, and Videos endpoints.
  • Makes it easy to integrate into agent workflows or interactive production pipelines.

7. Consistent Model Behavior via Snapshots

  • Offers stable snapshots to lock model performance across long-term projects.
  • Ensures reproducibility for content pipelines, asset libraries, and enterprise workflows.

8. Ideal Use Cases

  • Storyboarding → full-scene generation
  • Product or app demos visualized from text
  • Educational and explainer videos
  • Social media content creation
  • Creative ideation and prototyping
Appaca

Power your team with Sora 2

Appaca is the AI workspace for operators. Build internal tools and AI co-workers powered by Sora 2 - connected to your real data and ready for your whole team. No code, no deployment.

Build internal AI tools

Describe what you need and the Appaca agent builds it - lead scorers, report generators, email drafters - with Sora 2 as the engine. No code, no deployment.

Give Sora 2 your real data

Connect the tools your team already uses - Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, and more - so Sora 2 works with real context, not generic answers.

Automate recurring tasks

Schedule Sora 2 to run on autopilot - daily digests, weekly summaries, or real-time triggers - all managed inside your Appaca workspace.

Describe it, and it's built

Tell the Appaca agent what your team needs and it builds a working app powered by Sora 2 - connected to the tools you already use.

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Compare Sora 2 with other models

See how Sora 2 stacks up against other video models - pricing, context windows, and strengths side by side.

Build internal AI tools with Sora 2

Describe the tool your team needs and get a working app powered by Sora 2 - with a built-in database, team access, and integrations. No code, no deployment.