Vidu Q3

Shengshu AI

Vidu Q3 is the third generation of the Vidu video model family from Shengshu, offered through the Vidu platform API as viduq3-pro, viduq3-mix and viduq3-turbo, plus the industry-tuned viduq3-drama and viduq3-ad. The core variants render 1 to 16 second clips at 540p, 720p or 1080p at 24fps and support simultaneous audio and video output, with image-to-video, text-to-video and reference-to-video paths.

Strengths

Simultaneous audio and video output, so clips arrive with a synchronized soundtrack
Clip lengths from 1 to 16 seconds, longer than most competing API video models
Three resolution tiers (540p, 720p, 1080p) at 24fps, with a matching price step at each
Image-to-video, text-to-video and reference-to-video paths in one model generation
Industry-tuned variants: viduq3-drama for comic/drama and viduq3-ad for short-form advertising
viduq3-turbo cuts the per-second cost to roughly half of viduq3-pro at the same resolution
Platform adds video upscaling from 360p to 1080p, lip-sync and digital-human features alongside generation

Caveats

Proprietary and API-only: no weights, no model card, no self-hosting
Per-second billing at 1080p (24 credits/second on viduq3-pro) makes long clips expensive relative to the 540p tier
The industry variants viduq3-drama and viduq3-ad are narrower than the core models: 3 to 15 seconds and 720p/1080p only, with no 540p tier
Shengshu publishes no benchmark scores for Vidu Q3 in its platform documentation, and the docs marketing leans on qualitative claims ("exceptional performance with anime-style content") rather than measured results
No vendor-stated release date appears anywhere in the platform documentation, and no formal operating entity is named in the Terms of Use (only the privacy policy identifies ShengShu AI HK Limited)

Vendor: Shengshu AI
License: Proprietary
Modalities: video
audio

Capabilities

Vision

Audio

Video

Tool Use

Resources

API Documentation

Pricing

Per-second credit pricing on the Vidu platform. viduq3-pro: 24 credits/second at 1080P ($0.12/s), 20 at 720P ($0.1/s), 9 at 540P ($0.045/s). viduq3-turbo: 13 at 1080P ($0.065/s), 11 at 720P ($0.055/s), 7 at 540P ($0.035/s). viduq3-mix reference-to-video: 29 at 1080P ($0.145/s), 24 at 720P ($0.12/s).