Lumaai adds Kling 4.0 and Kling 4.0 Omni to its API model-pricing table

WHY IT MATTERS

Lumaai treats third-party model pricing as a living table rather than a product decision - it has made 8 real pricing changes since Jul 20, 2026, among the fastest cadences in the index. For API-resale vendors in this category, the model-pricing table (not the headline plan page) is where competitive and margin pressure shows up first. Watch whether Lumaai revises this table again soon: it already touched Seedance's own credit costs twice, on Sep 19, 2026 and again on Oct 5, 2026.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Kling 4.0: 53 credits/sec (720p), 79 credits/sec (1080p)
• Kling 4.0 Omni video-to-video: ~66 credits/sec (720p), ~98 credits/sec (1080p)
• 8 real pricing-page changes since Jul 20, 2026; avg gap ~13 days
• Previous change: Oct 5, 2026 doubled Seedance video-to-video credit costs

THEIR RATIONALE

By slotting Kling 4.0 straight into the existing per-model credit table alongside Seedance and Minimax, Lumaai continues to treat new third-party video models as a pricing-table update rather than a packaging change - consistent with how it added Seedance 2.5 and Nano Banana 2 in past months.

THE SIGNAL

This is one of 8 real pricing-page changes Lumaai has made since entering the index on Jul 20, 2026 - arriving just 18 days after its Oct 5 move that doubled Seedance video-to-video credit costs and added Minimax H3 Max, and keeping to its roughly 13-day average cadence between changes. Every one of those 8 changes has been a credits-and-usage-billing tweak, and across the index's 243 such moves from 175 companies in the last 180 days (12.1% of all 2014 tracked changes), Lumaai itself is the single most frequent name, with 5 in that window.

IN CONTEXT

Lumaai has made 8 real pricing changes since it entered the index on Jul 20, 2026, averaging one every ~13 days - among the fastest cadences anywhere in the index. This update lands just 18 days after Oct 5's move that doubled Seedance video-to-video credit costs and added Minimax H3 Max, and all 8 of those changes have touched Lumaai's credits-and-usage pricing in some way. That pattern is common but not universal across the index - 243 of the last 2014 tracked changes (12.1%) over 180 days involved credits-and-usage billing, and Lumaai itself is the single most frequent name on it, ahead of Ideogram, Pika and Magnific. The real story here is less the new Kling 4.0 rows than how often this table moves at all.