Kling 2.6 API

Introduction

Kling 2.6 Motion Control copies a driving video's moves, expressions and gestures onto a character from a still photo. Give it one clear picture of the person and a clip of 3 to 30 seconds showing the performance, and it returns a silent video at 720p or 1080p that runs exactly as long as the driving clip.

Choose a Kling 2.6 mode by starting material

Key features

The character's own photo wins on everything the driving clip doesn't dictate

In our test, a hip-hop routine performed by one dancer was mapped onto a different man in a navy three-piece suit: the moves matched step for step, and his suit, loafers, face and the concrete loft from his own photo all carried over, rather than the driving clip's plain studio background.

Silent output, length set by the driving clip

There is no audio field on this endpoint - the result renders silent - and no duration field either, since the output always matches the driving clip's length, from 3 to 30 seconds.

Request parameters

Pricing

Prices are in credits, the same credits you use on the website (1 credit = $0.01). The hold is taken when the task is accepted and settled to the actual charge when it finishes; failed tasks are refunded.

For an exact number before you run, send the same body to POST /jobs/quote.

Use cases

Reusing one performance across several characters

Shoot or generate a single driving clip once, then run it against different character photos to recast the same routine, walk or gesture without re-animating it from scratch each time.

Adding motion to a still character design

Bring a character you've already designed or generated to life with an existing performance, when you need the movement to look deliberate rather than freeform.

Prompt guide & pro tips

Say what to keep, not what to copy

The driving clip already carries the moves, expressions and gestures - the prompt field is for anything it can't show, most often which setting to keep: the character's own room, rather than the one in the driving clip.

Match the driving clip and the photo in framing

Our test paired a full-body driving clip with a full-body character photo. A close framing mismatch between the two - a half-body photo driven by a full-body clip, for instance - is the kind of input worth testing at low resolution first.

Check both inputs are wide enough

Check both dimensions on the driving clip, since a video can pass on width and still fail on height if it was shot in an unusual crop.

API quick start

Call the Kling 2.6 API in three steps

1. Create an API key. Sign in to PopNow and create a key in the API console. Keys start with sk-popnow- and use the same credits as the website.
2. Send the request. POST /jobs/createTask with model kling/2.6/character-animation and an input object that follows the parameter table. The response returns a task ID straight away.
3. Get the result. Poll GET /jobs/recordInfo with the task ID, or pass a callBackUrl and we post the result to it. Download the output links when the task succeeds.

# 1. Create the task. Keep the Idempotency-Key if you retry after a network error.
export IDEMPOTENCY_KEY="$(uuidgen)"
curl -X POST https://api.popnow.ai/api/v1/jobs/createTask \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POPNOW_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "kling/2.6/character-animation",
  "input": {
    "prompt": "A slow aerial shot drifting over a misty pine forest at sunrise",
    "image_url": "https://media.popnow.ai/influencer/examples/marco.webp",
    "video_url": "https://media.popnow.ai/effects/flower-bloom-1abd6efb.mp4",
    "resolution": "720p"
  }
}'

# 2. Copy data.taskId from the response, then poll until state is succeeded, failed, canceled or expired.
TASK_ID="TASK_ID_FROM_RESPONSE"
curl "https://api.popnow.ai/api/v1/jobs/recordInfo?taskId=$TASK_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POPNOW_API_KEY"

Replace the prompt and any links with your own. The API tab has the response, polling and callback reference.

Kling 2.6 API questions

All Kling models

Kling 3.0 Turbo offers 720p or 1080p and 3 to 15 second clips, always with sound.

• Kling 3.0 API4K clips, multi-shot cuts and motion controlFrom 51 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling O3 APIKling’s unified model: create, animate, reference and edit up to 4KFrom 51 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling 3.0 Turbo APIFaster Kling 3.0 with sound on every clipFrom 84 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling Avatar 2.0 APIA portrait that speaks or sings your audio, up to 5 minutesFrom 7.68 credits per second
• Kling 2.6 API1080p clips with optional sound and motion controlFrom 52 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling 2.5 Turbo API1080p clips with a soundtrack on every takeFrom 42 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling 2.1 Master APISilent 1080p clips with fine prompt controlFrom 162 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling 2.1 APIAnimate a frame at 720p or 1080p, with an optional end frameFrom 27 credits for a 5-second clip

Other video APIs

• MiniMax H3 APIExpressive clips with audio, up to 2KFrom 28 credits for a 5-second clip
• Seedance 2.5 APIByteDance's newest: 30-second clips with native audioFrom 56 credits for a 5-second clip
• Vidu Q4 Preview APIUp to 4K clips with sound and spoken dialogueFrom 34 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 3.0 APIUp to 30-second clips with synced audioFrom 34 credits for a 5-second clip
• MiniMax H3 Max APIFast clips with ambience, effects and musicFrom 38 credits for a 5-second clip
• LTX 2.5 APILong 20-second takes up to 4K with a soundtrackFrom 68 credits for a 5-second clip

More about Kling 2.6

Try it

Kling 2.6 AI Video Generator onlineCreate videos with Kling 2.6 in PopNow

Docs

Kling 2.6 model ID and input schema in the API docsPopNow API quickstart: your first request in five minutesImage to video guide for the PopNow APIWebhooks: get Kling 2.6 results without polling