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Veo 3.1 Lite

The lowest-cost Veo tier, 720p clips with native audio.

video/veo3.1-lite
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She puts on the headset and gasps with a delighted smile; glowing leaves, floating islands and tiny waterfalls bloom out of thin air and fill the room around her while the camera slowly orbits her, warm magical light spilling across her face. One continuous shot, no cuts, consistent character, correct anatomy and hands, no text, no logos, no captions.

Price
5 credits / second
Makes
Text to video, Image to video
Clip length
4 to 8 s

Best for

Veo 3.1 Lite is the low-cost tier of Google's Veo 3.1. It generates 720p clips of four to eight seconds with native audio from a prompt or a starting image, a cheap way to try many ideas before a premium render.

  • Cheap drafts of cutscene and trailer ideas.
  • Short ambient loops for menus and loading screens.
  • Testing how a character's motion reads before a final render.

Put it together

Where Veo 3.1 Lite fits in a game, with the models it works well with. Your agent runs every step.

Price

ModeModelPrice
Text to videoVeo 3.1 Lite5 credits / second
Image to videoVeo 3.1 Lite5 credits / second

Paid from your Summer credits.

Use it from code or your agent

Sign in once with summer login. Your agent or your code then runs it with your paid credits.

npx -y summer-engine@latest login
npx -y summer-engine@latest api run video/veo3.1-lite \
  --input '{"prompt":"a dragon circling a castle at dawn","duration":5}' \
  --download .

video/veo3.1-lite: $0.05 per second of video. Paid from your Summer credits.

Inputs

What input takes for video/veo3.1-lite. Send only what you need; Summer fills in tested defaults.

  • promptstringup to 4000 characters

    What happens in the clip. Needed without imageUrl.

  • imageUrlstringup to 2048 characters

    A public image URL to animate (image to video).

  • endImageUrlstringup to 2048 characters

    With imageUrl: the last frame. The same image as imageUrl makes a seamless loop. Models with an end frame: Seedance, Kling 3, Wan, Vidu, LTX 2.5, Luma, MiniMax.

  • referenceImageUrlsarray of string1 to 10 items

    Reference to video: public images of the characters, props or style to keep (with a reference model, e.g. kling-4-ref). Motion transfer: the character to move.

  • videoUrlstringup to 2048 characters

    An input clip (public URL, at most 20 s): restyle or reframe it, move a character with its motion, or add sound to it (e.g. kling-video-to-audio). Billed on the clip's length.

  • durationintegerDefault 5 · 1 to 20

    Seconds; the model renders its nearest supported length.

  • aspectRatioenumDefault 16:9
    • 16:9
    • 9:16
    • 1:1
    • 4:3
    • 3:4
    • 21:9
    • 3:2
    • 2:3
    • auto
  • negativePromptstringup to 1000 characters

    What the clip must not show.

  • resolutionenum

    Only a quality the model offers; leave out for its default.

    • 720p
    • 1080p
    • 4k
    • 480p
    • 768p
    • 2k
    • 768P
    • 1080P
    • 480P

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Questions

What is Veo 3.1 Lite good for in game development?
Veo 3.1 Lite is the low-cost tier of Google's Veo 3.1. It generates 720p clips of four to eight seconds with native audio from a prompt or a starting image, a cheap way to try many ideas before a premium render. Typical game uses: cheap drafts of cutscene and trailer ideas; short ambient loops for menus and loading screens; testing how a character's motion reads before a final render.
How much does Veo 3.1 Lite cost in Summer?
In Summer Studio: Veo 3.1 Lite (text to video): 5 credits / second; Veo 3.1 Lite (image to video): 5 credits / second. It is charged from your Summer credits.
What can Veo 3.1 Lite generate, and how long are the clips?
In Summer, Veo 3.1 Lite supports text to video and image to video. Generated clips run 4, 6, and 8 seconds, in 16:9 and 9:16 aspect ratios at 720p and 1080p.
Can I use Veo 3.1 Lite from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex?
Yes. Connect the Summer MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or another MCP client, then ask your agent to generate with summer_generate_video with model: "veo3.1-lite". Setup instructions are at summerengine.com/mcp.
Where do Veo 3.1 Lite results go?
Every generation is saved to your Summer asset library. From there you can download it or bring it into a Summer Engine project.