Haiper AI — What Happened, and Where to Generate Video Now
Haiper was a promising AI video generator from DeepMind alumni — until the consumer app went dark in 2025. Here's what actually happened, and where the same text-to-video and image-to-video jobs run today, free to try.
Haiper was an independent product of Haiper Ltd. SeedDance is not affiliated with Haiper — this page documents its status and offers comparable generation directly.
Haiper-style videos, made here
Cinematic clips, living photos, ambient loops — click to view any prompt.
Everything Haiper did, on engines that shipped since
Text to video
Describe the shot — subject, motion, light, camera — and generate on Seedance or Kling, engines a generation past Haiper 2.0.
Image to video
Haiper's most-loved trick — animating a still photo — works the same way here: upload, describe the motion, generate.
A free tier that's still here
Haiper's free tier vanished with the company. First videos here are free, no account, and downloads are clean.
Finish in 4K
Upscale generated clips to 4K in the same place — no separate tool.
Switch from Haiper in 3 steps
Bring your prompts
Haiper-era prompts work as-is: subject, motion, mood, camera move. Frontier engines just follow them better.
Pick text or image mode
Text-to-video for new shots, image-to-video to animate stills — the same two modes Haiper offered.
Generate & download
Clean MP4, no watermark, full rights.
What was Haiper AI?
Haiper was a London-based AI video startup founded by DeepMind alumni, which shipped its own text-to-video and image-to-video models through 2024 — Haiper 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 — with a free web app that drew millions of users on the strength of a genuinely usable free tier.
Then it ended abruptly: the consumer app went offline around February 2025 with no shutdown notice or migration path. The cofounders joined Microsoft AI in March 2025, and Haiper's underlying models were sold to NetMind.AI, where they now live behind a B2B API. As of 2026, haiper.ai still resolves but the consumer product is gone — you cannot sign up or generate anything there.
If you landed here looking for a replacement: the jobs Haiper did — text-to-video, animating photos, short cinematic clips — run here on current frontier engines, Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0, first videos free with no account.
| Type | AI video generator (text & image to video) |
|---|---|
| Status | Consumer app offline since ~Feb 2025 |
| Official site | haiper.ai (dormant) |
| Where the tech went | Founders → Microsoft AI; models → NetMind.AI |
| Same jobs today | Free here, no account, no watermark |
Haiper at a glance
| Version | Released | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Haiper 1.0 → 2.0 | 2024 | Own video models, free web app, millions of users |
| Shutdown & sale | 2025 | Consumer app offline; founders to Microsoft AI, models to NetMind.AI |
Haiper's story is the market's: video generation consolidated hard, and standalone model startups either scaled or exited. The engines here are the ones that scaled.
Haiper vs SeedDance
| Haiper (offline) | SeedDance | |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Haiper Ltd | Independent |
| Strength | Was: free, fast, easy video generation | Live frontier engines, clean free tier |
| Open-source | ❌ | ❌ |
| Best for | Nothing today — consumer app is gone | The same jobs, generated today |
One honest exception: if you're an enterprise that specifically wants Haiper's original models, they live on behind NetMind.AI's B2B API — for everyone else, current engines have long since passed them.
Haiper, answered
What happened to Haiper AI?
The consumer app went offline around February 2025 without a shutdown notice. The cofounders joined Microsoft AI in March 2025, and Haiper's video models were sold to NetMind.AI, where they're now offered via a B2B API.
Is Haiper AI still working?
No — as of 2026 the consumer product is offline. The haiper.ai domain still resolves, but you can't sign up or generate videos there.
Is Haiper AI free?
It was — a generous free tier was Haiper's calling card, but it disappeared with the product. SeedDance is free to start today: first videos free, no card required, no watermark.
Is this the official Haiper site?
No — that's haiper.ai, which is dormant. SeedDance is an independent platform where the same video jobs run on current engines.
Can I recover videos I made on Haiper?
There was no announced migration or export path when the app went offline, so recovery is unlikely — if you didn't download your clips, assume they're gone.
What's the best Haiper alternative?
For the same free-to-start, browser-based workflow: generating on Seedance 2.0 or Kling 3.0 here covers text-to-video and image-to-video with engines well past Haiper 2.0. Heavy pro pipelines might also look at Runway.
Where did Haiper's models go?
They were acquired by NetMind.AI and are offered through its enterprise API — there's no consumer-facing Haiper product anymore.
Can I use videos I make here commercially?
Yes — full commercial rights on everything generated on SeedDance.