Models

The API sunsets on 24 September and account data goes with it. Files you've already exported are safe. Everything else isn't.

ByteDance announced 4K, thirty seconds and fifty references in June. Two of those three arrived. Guess which one didn't.

Fast gives up nothing. Lite gives up references entirely. The naming points the wrong way about which costs you more.

Seventeen of eighteen offer 9:16, and every one of them defaults to it. The interesting question is what else they give you.

Two different quality systems, reference ceilings from sixteen down to one, and only three models that batch at all.

Nothing notifies you. The picker is the only current source, and four settings are worth checking before any delivery you've promised.

From fifty down to none, and the type matters more than the number. One model won't take an image at all.

Comparison posts quoting Veo 4 specifications are describing a model that doesn't exist. Here's what Google's own documentation says.

All eighteen generate audio. Only six let you switch it off, and that's the setting that decides your workflow.

Three naming conventions, and none of them tells you what changes. One Fast tier gives up nothing, and two models are identical.

Four of eighteen models offer 4K. The flagship isn't one of them, and your plan may not permit it anyway.

Eighteen models, and the vendor name tells you less about which to pick than four settings do.