Free AI Video Generators in 2026 After Sora
Summary: The 30-Second Answer Sora is gone. OpenAI discontinued the Sora web and app experiences on 26 April 2026, and the Sora API shuts down on 24 September 2026. There is no announced successor. Google’s video is now a paid feature. Gemini Omni replaced Veo inside the Gemini app, and Google’s own page says a Google AI subscription is required. xAI says Grok is “free to try” and Imagine does text-to-video up to 15 seconds, but the page does not spell out what a free account gets. The only unconditionally free route is open weights: run a model like Wan yourself and pay in GPU time instead of subscription fees. Most “free AI video generator” listicles ranking today still list Sora. That is how stale this category’s content is. Type “free AI video generator” into Google and the first page is a wall of listicles, most of which recommend a product that has not existed since April. That alone tells you how fast this category moves and how little of the content covering it is checked. ...