
Beat API
AI music video and async video workflow APIs for developers
About Beat API
Beat API is built for developers rather than end users, and its distinguishing idea is workflow endpoints rather than model endpoints. Most video generation APIs expose a model: send a prompt, receive a clip. Beat API exposes complete workflows, so the AI Music Video API takes source audio and visual references and returns a traceable music video production process with hosted output. That is a different product. It means the multi-step orchestration of turning audio plus references into a finished video sits inside the API rather than in your application code.
Five API families are offered. The AI Workflow API covers music video and ecommerce video as complete traceable processes, with the ecommerce endpoint creating asynchronous product video tasks from images, an offer brief and creative direction. The AI Video API provides direct model access to MiniMax H3, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0. The AI Image API covers Nano Banana, GPT Image 2 and Seedream 5.0 Pro. The Realtime Video API handles WebRTC, camera input and live transformation, which is a substantially harder problem than batch generation. The AI Effect API covers style, dance, commerce and transformation effects. Output is hosted rather than left as your problem.
Choose the API level that matches your need. For complete outputs, use the workflow endpoints: supply source audio and visual references to the music video API, or product images with an offer brief and creative direction to the ecommerce video API, and receive a traceable asynchronous task producing a hosted finished video. For lower-level control, call the video or image APIs directly against a chosen model. For live experiences, the realtime API handles WebRTC and camera input with transformation applied as the stream runs. Tasks are asynchronous by design, which is the correct pattern for generation that takes minutes rather than milliseconds.
- •Workflow Endpoints, Not Just Models - Complete music video and ecommerce video processes rather than a single generation call
- •Traceable Async Tasks - Long-running generation modelled properly as asynchronous work with traceability
- •Hosted Output - Generated video hosted rather than handed back as a file for you to store
- •Direct Model Access - MiniMax H3, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 available individually
- •Image API - Nano Banana, GPT Image 2 and Seedream 5.0 Pro alongside video
- •Realtime WebRTC Transformation - Live camera transformation, a materially harder problem than batch generation
- •Effect API - Style, dance, commerce and transformation effects as named endpoints
- •Published API Documentation - Developer docs available for all five families
For engineering teams building video generation into a product, particularly anyone who has discovered that turning a model call into a finished music video or product video involves substantially more orchestration than expected. The ecommerce video workflow suits platforms generating product video for many sellers. The realtime WebRTC API serves live streaming and camera-based applications, which is a much smaller and more specialised audience. This is developer infrastructure with usage-based pricing, so it is not intended for individual creators wanting an interface.
Pricing
Usage based, no flat monthly plan
Developer API with usage-based pricing - see the API documentation for current per-endpoint rates
From the vendor pricing page, 2026-09-18














