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Sora

OpenAI · #5 most active of 17 in Video

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Video generation with audio, remixing and a consumer app around it.

100

Trust score · Verified

2 data points checked · 2026-09-13

Model stack: VerifiedEntry price: UnverifiableVersion: VerifiedHow this works →

Current version

Sora 2

Entry cost

from $20/mo

Changes / 30d

5

The short answers · verified September 16, 2026

What is the latest version of Sora?
The current shipped version of Sora is Sora 2, as of September 16, 2026.
How much does Sora cost?
Sora starts at $20 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of September 16, 2026.
What AI model does Sora use?
Sora runs primarily on Sora 2.

Source: OpenAIopenai.com · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • Synchronised audio
  • Cameos
  • Remix
  • Storyboard
  • Vertical video
  • text-to-video
  • image-to-video
  • character consistency
  • video extension
  • video editing
  • batch rendering
  • Text-to-video generation
  • Image-to-video generation
  • Character consistency
  • Video extensions
  • Video editing
  • Batch API support
  • text-to-video generation
  • image-to-video generation
  • video extensions
  • batch API support
  • Video generation
  • Image-to-video
  • Video extension
  • Text-to-video
  • Consistent characters
  • Batch API
  • video generation
  • batch api
  • consistent characters
  • video-generation
  • video-extension
  • video-editing
  • batch-api
  • character-consistency
  • batch generation
  • video-extensions
  • Videos API
  • multimodal
  • audio generation
  • video API

Pricing

  • Free

    Free

  • ChatGPT Plus

    $20

  • ChatGPT Pro

    $200

  • API

    per second

    Free

Entry price over time

2 of 19 points reconstructed from Internet Archive captures (hollow dots) — dated by capture, not by when we first saw the page. View a capture

1/2/2025 · $209/16/2026 · $20

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Sora 2

    OpenAI

    disclosed
  • Sora 2 Pro

    OpenAI

    disclosed
  • sora-2-12-08

    OpenAI

    disclosed
  • sora-2-2025-10-06

    OpenAI

    disclosed
  • sora-2-2025-12-08

    OpenAI

    disclosed
  • sora-2-pro-2025-10-06

    OpenAI

    disclosed

Context window

n/a

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • iOS app
  • REST API
  • C2PA metadata

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

  • Sora 2OpenAI · 1 product
  • Sora 2 ProOpenAI · 1 product
  • sora-2-12-08OpenAI · 1 product
  • sora-2-2025-10-06OpenAI · 1 product
  • sora-2-2025-12-08OpenAI · 1 product
  • sora-2-pro-2025-10-06OpenAI · 1 product

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • capability

    New capabilities: video API

    40 tracked41 tracked · +video API

    source
  • version

    Sora moved to Sora 2

    sora-2Sora 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multimodal, audio generation

    38 tracked40 tracked · +multimodal, audio generation

    source
  • version

    Sora moved to sora-2

    Sora 2sora-2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Videos API

    37 tracked38 tracked · +Videos API

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: video-extensions

    36 tracked37 tracked · +video-extensions

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: batch generation

    35 tracked36 tracked · +batch generation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: character-consistency

    34 tracked35 tracked · +character-consistency

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: video-generation, video-extension, video-editing

    30 tracked34 tracked · +video-generation, video-extension, video-editing, batch-api

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: video generation, batch api, consistent characters

    27 tracked30 tracked · +video generation, batch api, consistent characters

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Batch API

    26 tracked27 tracked · +Batch API

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Text-to-video, Consistent characters

    24 tracked26 tracked · +Text-to-video, Consistent characters

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Video generation, Image-to-video, Video extension

    21 tracked24 tracked · +Video generation, Image-to-video, Video extension

    source
  • model

    Sora added sora-2-12-08 to its model stack

    Sora 2, Sora 2 Pro, sora-2, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06Sora 2, Sora 2 Pro, sora-2, sora-2-12-08, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: video extensions, batch API support

    196

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: text-to-video generation, image-to-video generation

    176

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Text-to-video generation, Image-to-video generation, Character consistency

    116

    source
  • model

    Sora added sora-2, sora-2-pro, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06 to its model stack

    Sora 2, Sora 2 ProSora 2, Sora 2 Pro, sora-2, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: text-to-video, image-to-video, character consistency

    56

    source
  • version

    Sora 2 adds synchronised audio and the cameo feature

    Sora 1Sora 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Video generation

    1 tracked2 tracked · +Video generation

    source
  • pricing

    Entry price increased to $200/mo

    $20$200

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: video generation

    2 tracked3 tracked · +video generation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image generation, Video generation

    1 tracked3 tracked · +Image generation, Video generation

    source
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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/sora

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Sora — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-18, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/sora
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-sora,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Sora — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/sora}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-18}
}