PIKA API CLUB MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS
Vuvie, AI-Bridge and Secret Level are building bold new things—and making their generative media budgets go much further.
September 24, 2026. By the Pika Team
One of the biggest reasons we built the Pika API Club was to make generative media genuinely accessible—not only to established companies with significant budgets, but to independent builders and teams making something new on their own terms.
That’s what our Member Spotlight series is about. We’re featuring some of the members we think are making incredible things with the Pika API, what they’re saving with it, and what those savings mean for their business. Our inaugural spotlights include three companies whose work spans anime, short dramas, proprietary creation tools, and global campaigns. Read on to get to know them.
Vuvie by thevumedia
Peter, Paul and Michael Vu started out making viral videos for social. Now they produce original series, available on their new streaming app: Vuvie. Each title within Vuvie’s catalogue sits somewhere between a movie, a mini-drama and a viral video. Watch one episode on the train, or let the whole series run on a bigger screen. And every clip is generated with Seedance 2.5 through the Pika API.
Preview Their Work
Here are three of the series they’re building. Can’t wait to see where they go next? Check them out on vuvie.io
Red Sails — Episode 1. An action-adventure series directed by Paul Vu. This opening episode is still unreleased, shared here as a preview.
The Collateral Bride — Episode 1. A drama-romance directed by Peter Vu.
Return of the Beast Master — Episode 1. An action-adventure series directed by Michael Vu.
Breaking Down The Savings
In the last 30 days, the team made 3,822 Seedance 2.5 reference-to-video generations. With the Pika API Club, they’re paying $12,185.80 less for these generations than they would with Fal.ai. They’re just getting started, and that already equates to over $146K in savings per year.
For a studio making narrative work, cheaper generations aren’t just about a smaller invoice. They mean more chances to get the shot right.
“The savings go straight back into more content. More generations, more takes, and a better finished product.” — Peter Vu, thevumedia
“The savings go straight back into more content. More generations, more takes, and a better finished product.” — Peter Vu, thevumedia
That’s exactly the kind of thing we hoped the Club would make possible.
AI-Bridge
AI-Bridge is a Tokyo-based studio offering broad services across AI media: video production, corporate training, enterprise AI support and custom creative tools. They’ve produced award-winning anime work, and produce much of it with Creative Canvas, an open-source, node-based workspace where image, video, audio and LLM generation all run through a single Pika API key. Clients can run it on their own accounts too. Since joining the Pika API Club, their generative media costs have been cut in half.
A Sampling of Their Work
Creative Canvas: AI-Bridge uses Creative Canvas for its own productions, from anime and short dramas to corporate brand films. You can explore the open-source tool on GitHub.
Anime production: This scene was written, generated and edited end to end through Creative Canvas.
Corporate brand film: AI-Bridge handled the whole job in-house, from concept and storyboard through to final cut.
Breaking Down The Savings
The studio runs around 300 video generations a month, plus image, audio and LLM calls. That used to cost roughly $2,000 a month on Fal.ai across several keys. With the Pika API Club, it’s $990 on one key—about $12,120 a year that stays in the business.
For a studio this size, those savings go straight back into building its AI capabilities.
“I'd invest in a high-end machine to run local models alongside Pika. The future is hybrid cloud plus local.” — Koba, COO, AI-Bridge
“I'd invest in a high-end machine to run local models alongside Pika. The future is hybrid cloud plus local.” — Koba, COO, AI-Bridge
Secret Level
Secret Level was one of the first premium entertainment studios to offer AI-native and hybrid production. We’ve been fans of their work for a long time, and we’re thrilled to support both the studio and its proprietary filmmaking platform, Liquid Engine. Pika powers a critical part of Liquid Engine, helping the team make original films, branded entertainment and global campaigns at a scale traditional production pipelines can’t sustain.
Preview the Work
From global brand campaigns to original films, Secret Level’s work shows just how broad AI-native production can be.
Raising Cane’s Campaign: For the brand’s National Chicken Finger Day campaign, Secret Level made an action spot starring Chuck Norris (his likeness was licensed with his family’s permission).
The Heist 3: A Secret Level original short film set in 1980s Little Havana: a mobster fresh out of prison, a suitcase worth killing for and a Miami chase that ends in a shootout on the water.
Coca-Cola — Holidays Are Coming Campaign: A fully animated reimagining of the iconic global holiday campaign.
The Salaryman. An ordinary man in Tokyo whose lonely routine changes when an unexpected friendship turns up.
Breaking Down The Savings
Generative media isn’t a side experiment at Secret Level—it’s at the core of the business. With Pika powering a critical part of Liquid Engine, API Club member pricing translates into real savings across the studio’s campaigns and original work.
For an AI-native studio, lower generation costs mean more resources can stay focused on the filmmaking itself.
We’re here for whatever they make next.
Built for whatever you’re building
We’re excited to be able to power more builders, tinkerers and creators of all kinds with the world’s best models, and the lowest pricing of any API aggregator.
With the Pika API Club, members get:
- 100+ leading models through one API. Video, image, audio, speech and LLMs, all behind a single key.
- Member pricing up to 88% lower than other API aggregators. Clear, model-by-model rates and a pricing calculator that shows what you can save.
- Simple, pay-as-you-go membership. $10/month unlocks member pricing, new members receive $10 in first-month credit, and you pay only for what you generate.
- An agent-native API. Ready-made setup instructions help you start building with ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Cursor, Lovable and the tools you already use.
Join the club
Are you building something new? Become a member of the Pika API Club and start making it.
