Vidu vs Luma Dream Machine

Vidu is an all-in-one platform for generating images and videos from text, still images, or references. It is built for independent creators and production teams who want to turn ideas into finished clips without a traditional post pipeline. The core modes are text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video, with output up to 1080p.

Reference-to-video is where Vidu stands out. Upload up to seven images to keep characters, objects, and scenes consistent across a clip, or save assets in My References for reuse on later projects. The Vidu Q3 model adds native audio in the same generation pass, so dialogue, voiceover, sound effects, and music land with the picture instead of in a separate editing step.

Creators working in anime, advertising, social content, and short-form film use Vidu for everything from template-based viral clips to 16-second narrative shots with frame-level camera control. Studios and marketers also use image-to-video to animate product shots or swap ad backgrounds while keeping subjects on-model.

New accounts receive starter credits, with more available through daily logins, subscriptions, and platform events.

Luma Dream Machine is Luma AI's video and image generation platform, now delivered through Luma Agents. The web app lets you plan, generate, iterate, and refine creative work across image, video, and audio in one workspace. You describe what you want to make, and the agent handles model selection, generation, and refinement with full project context.

The platform runs Luma's own Ray video models (including Ray3.2 and Ray3.14) alongside third-party image and video models. You can create product ads, brand identity assets, short films from scripts, virtual try-on visuals, and social video ads. Video outputs support text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video restyling, reframing, HDR generation, and EXR export for production pipelines.

Luma also exposes Ray and Uni image generation through APIs at platform.lumalabs.ai for developers building creative products and production workflows. Individual plans are credit-based; Team and Enterprise tiers add collaboration, SSO, and dedicated support.