Pika

Facts

• ·The service is run by Mellis, Inc., 849 High St, Palo Alto, California 94301 — the legal entity is explicitly named as a party in the terms (dev.pika.art/terms-of-service, version dated 08.04.2026): “The Service is operated by Mellis, Inc.”. Publicly, the company operates everywhere as Pika. Founded in April 2023 by Demi Guo (CEO) and Chenlin Meng (CTO), both of whom left AI PhD programs at Stanford.
• ·$135 million raised. November 2023 — $55 million across pre-seed, seed (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, $20 million), and a $35 million Series A led by Lightspeed. June 2024 — an $80 million Series B led by Spark Capital at a valuation of about $470 million. Angel investors include Elad Gil, Adam D'Angelo (Quora), Andrej Karpathy, Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), and Alex Chung (Giphy). According to Sacra, Meta was in acquisition talks with the company in July 2025; no deal was reached.
• ·Lineup on pika.art as of 19.08.2026: Pika Agent (a conversational companion with access to all models at once), Pika MCP (the same generative capabilities are exposed to any third-party agent), the Pikaffects app (one-tap “flatten,” “melt,” and “turn into cake” effects), AI Trendmaker (matching a video trend using a selfie and sound), and Pika API Club. The default web model is Pika 2.5; Pikaformance was announced separately: lip sync for any sound in near real time, making an image sing, speak, or bark.
• ·Annual-billing pricing as of 19.08.2026: Free — 0 $ and 80 video credits per month; Basic — 8 $/month, 80 credits; Standard — 28 $/month, 700 credits; Pro — 76 $/month, 2300 credits; plus the Fancy plan with 6000 credits. Paid plans remove the watermark, provide commercial rights to the output, and speed up the queue.