Percify APIBring an old photo to life
A portrait photo becomes a few seconds of natural movement. For memory and family history apps.
- Price
- from $0.85with Kling V3 Turbo Standard (Image to Video)
- You send
- a still image and a short prompt for the motion
- You get
- video
How it works
Send a still image and a short prompt for the motion
One POST to /run with the model id and your input. It answers at once with an id.
We run Kling V3 Turbo Standard (Image to Video)
from $0.85. Charged when it starts, refunded by itself if it fails.
Collect a video
GET /generations/{id}?wait=55 returns a video that starts from your image and moves, as a file URL. Or pass a webhook and we call you.
3 models for this, by price
Prices are read from the live catalog. Each one opens the playground with this use case filled in.
The request
Filled in with sample files from our CDN, so it runs as it is. Swap in your own URLs.
curl https://api.percify.io/v3/playground/v1/run \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PERCIFY_API_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"modelId": "kling-v3-turbo-std-i2v",
"input": {
"image": "https://cdn.percify.io/media-assets/web-v3/v3page/bento-face.jpg",
"prompt": "She smiles gently and blinks, slight head turn, natural motion"
}
}'Full reference in the docs. Every field Kling V3 Turbo Standard (Image to Video) takes is on its model page.
Questions
What do I send to bring an old photo to life?
Send a still image and a short prompt for the motion in one POST to https://api.percify.io/v3/playground/v1/run. You get a video that starts from your image and moves.
What does it cost?
With Kling V3 Turbo Standard (Image to Video) it is from $0.85 (from 34 credits). The picks on this page range from $0.05 a second to from $4.00. The estimate call returns the exact price of your input before you run it, and a run that fails is refunded.
Which model should I use?
Budget: P-Video Turbo ($0.05 a second). Balanced: Kling V3 Turbo Standard (Image to Video) (from $0.85). Premium: Veo 3.1 (Image to Video) (from $4.00). Switching is one string in the request: the model id.
Can an AI agent do this for me?
Yes. Connect your agent to the MCP server at https://mcp.percify.io/mcp and ask for it in plain words. The agent calls the generate tool with the same model id and input shown on this page, and the call spends the same credits.
