Sora 2 vs Veo 3.1
These two get compared more than any other pair in AI video, and almost always from their launch announcements. Both come from laboratories with something to prove, and both are good enough that the choice between them is a question about your project rather than about which is better.
What follows is the part that is checkable. The specifications are read from our catalogue — the records the studio sells from — when this page is served, so they cannot go stale. Both clips were generated on Musevate, each from its own prompt, shown under it — so they show what each model does, not a like-for-like test. Nothing here is taken from either vendor’s reel, which is always the best output of many attempts.
Sora 2 costs 25 credits for five seconds at 720p and Veo 3.1 costs 50. The difference in what they do with it is below.
Specifications read from the Musevate catalogue when this page loaded. Both clips were generated on Musevate, each from its own prompt, shown under it — so they show what each model does, not a like-for-like test.
Both, on the same platform
The part no specification table can give you. Each clip below came out of Musevate through the same pipeline, and the prompt that produced it is underneath.
Side by side
Every figure here is read from our catalogue — the records the studio sells from — when the page is served, so it cannot drift the way a written comparison does. Where a row has a better answer it is marked; where it does not, both are shown plainly rather than scored.
| Sora 2 | Veo 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price for a 5 second clip | 25 credits at 720p | 50 credits at 720p |
| Longest clip | 12 seconds | 8 seconds |
| Highest resolution | 720p | 4K |
| Generates sound | Always, as part of the generation | On request, with audio switched on |
| Text to video | Yes | Yes |
| Animates an image you upload | No | Yes |
| Takes reference images | No | No |
| Example generated on Musevate | Yes | Yes |
Prices are credits for a five second clip at 720p. Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 each have a full page with the rest of their specification.
Questions
Should I use Sora 2 or Veo 3.1?
It depends on the shot, and any page that answers this without knowing what you are making is guessing. Veo 3.1 animates an image you upload and Sora 2 does not, so if you have a product, a face or an existing frame that has to survive, that decides it on its own. If you are starting from a written description with nothing to preserve, both are candidates and the honest way to choose is to run the same prompt through each -- which on Musevate costs two generations from one balance.
Is Veo 3.1 the same as Veo 3?
No. Veo 3.1 is a later revision and is priced and specified separately; both are on Musevate as distinct models, each with its own page. Comparisons written when Veo 3 launched describe a model that has since been superseded, which is one of the reasons this page reads its numbers from the catalogue each time rather than storing them.
Which one do the tables here favour?
Whichever the row is about. This page marks the better answer where a row has one -- a lower price at the same size, a longer clip, a larger render -- and leaves the rest unmarked, because sound, mode support and the look of the output are differences rather than rankings. There is no overall score, because there is no honest way to compute one.
Which is cheaper, Sora 2 or Veo 3.1?
Sora 2, at 25 credits for a five second clip at 720p against 50 for Veo 3.1. Both are billed the same way and the studio quotes the exact figure before you spend anything.
Which makes longer clips, Sora 2 or Veo 3.1?
Sora 2, up to 12 seconds in one generation against 8. Longer clips cost proportionally more.
Do Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 generate sound?
Both do. Sora 2: always, as part of the generation. Veo 3.1: on request.
Can I use both Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 on one account?
Yes. Musevate is one account and one credit balance across every model, so comparing them costs nothing beyond the two generations. That is how the two clips on this page were made.
Run the comparison yourself
Both models are on one account with one balance. Sora 2 is 25 credits for five seconds at 720p; Veo 3.1 is 50.
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