model · OpenAI

Sora 2

Sora 2 is OpenAI's flagship text-to-video model: describe a scene in a sentence and it renders up to 60 seconds of footage at 720p (1080p on the Pro tier), holding a character's face and clothing consistent across cuts — the single hardest problem in AI video. It's built into ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) and Pro ($100/month) as a simple prompt box, and exposed as an API for developers who want to generate video programmatically. For a student this looks like: paste a description of a cell dividing or a protein folding, get back a short clip you can drop into a slide deck. The catch is that Sora doesn't generate audio — you still need a separate voice or music tool — and OpenAI has already signaled the API layer is not a long-term bet, so treat this as a snapshot of the state of the art, not a permanent platform choice. Cinematic quality is the headline feature: camera moves, lighting, and physics look convincingly like real footage rather than a slideshow of frames.

• paid
• cloud
• Commercial