Sora 2 Characters

Name: Sora 2 Characters
Author: OpenAI

openai/sora-2/characters

Sora 2 Characters is OpenAI's image-to-video AI model. Bring static images to life with fluid animation, consistent character motion, and professional-grade video output.

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Base price: $0.00USD / run
Execution: async
Model type: video
Input fields: 2

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Input

Video URL(string)

URL of an MP4 video (minimum 720p, max ~2.67:1 aspect ratio) to define the character. Videos exceeding 1080p are automatically scaled down. Non-standard aspect ratios are automatically padded to 16:9 (landscape) or 9:16 (portrait). Videos longer than 4 seconds are trimmed to the first 4 seconds.

Name(string)

Name for the character (1–80 characters). Refer to this name in prompts when using the character.

OutputReady

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Pricing

Base price: $0 / run

Context & modalities

Input: Schema-defined
Output: video

Capabilities

Chat: Not supported
Vision: Not supported
Reasoning: Not supported
Structured output: Not supported
Function calling: Not supported
Audio input: Not supported

Access

Provider: OpenAI
Model ID: openai/sora-2/characters
Execution: async
API: Unified Run API
Endpoint: /v1/run

API README

Sora 2 Characters

Sora 2 Characters is built for cinematic video generation, with this exact route focused on character-consistent creation. Sora 2 Characters is OpenAI's image-to-video AI model. Bring static images to life with fluid animation, consistent character motion, and professional-grade video output. It is designed for production workflows that need a clearly scoped media operation instead of a generic assistant response, preserving the supplied direction while returning an artifact ready for review, iteration, or downstream assembly.

The request surface keeps creative direction and delivery choices explicit through name, sync_mode, video_url, safety_tolerance. Teams can lock source material, describe the intended result, choose supported output controls, and rerun the same request structure across variations. This makes experiments easier to compare and larger pipelines easier to operate without hiding important decisions inside an opaque preset.

Highlights

Character-Consistent Creation. The openai/sora-2/characters route is dedicated to character-consistent creation, keeping inputs and outputs matched to this operation.
Coherent Motion And Scene Continuity. Within openai/sora-2/characters, documented prompt and media controls direct coherent motion and scene continuity while keeping the brief close to the result.
Directable Visual Storytelling. The openai/sora-2/characters result provides directable visual storytelling in a machine-consumable form for review and downstream production.
Route-specific control. For openai/sora-2/characters, documented controls include name, sync_mode, video_url, safety_tolerance, defining the supported variation space for this exact route.

Pricing

Configuration	Price
Per request	`$0.000000`

When to Use

Scenario	Why it fits
Choose this route	When the deliverable is specifically character-consistent creation, not a neighboring generation or editing task.
Production iteration	When creative teams need repeatable coherent motion and scene continuity with an explicit request payload.
Automated pipelines	When directable visual storytelling must flow into review, storage, compositing, or publishing.
Controlled variations	When a stable brief should be rerun while changing only documented inputs.
Prototype to scale	When the same `openai/sora-2/characters` contract should serve a single experiment and a larger batch later.

Prompt Guide

Lead with the subject or source, then state the transformation, important spatial or temporal details, style, and finish. Supply only documented fields, keep media URLs reachable, and vary one control at a time when comparing outputs.

{
  "name": "value"
}

Technical Specs

Property	Value
Model ID	`openai/sora-2/characters`
Required inputs	None documented
`name`	string
`sync_mode`	boolean; default: false
`video_url`	string
`safety_tolerance`	string; default: 6

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OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

Production API

Unified Run API endpoint

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run

Model ID

openai/sora-2/characters

# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "model": "openai/sora-2/characters"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
  status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
  case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
  sleep 2
  result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
    "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"

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