Kling 3.0: Native 4K Video, Multi-Shot Storyboards, and Everything New

Kuaishou launched Kling 3.0 on February 5, 2026, and it is the largest single leap in AI video generation we have seen from any model provider this year. Native 4K at 60 frames per second. Multi-shot storyboarding with up to six camera cuts in a single generation. Character consistency that holds across shots, scenes, and voice synchronization. Full multimodal input and output spanning text, image, audio, and video. Multi-language audio generation with dialect and accent support.

This is not an incremental update. Kling 3.0 redefines what a single AI video model can do in one pass -- and the implications for advertising, content production, and creative workflows are significant.

This guide covers the full feature breakdown, what changed from Kling 2.6, how multi-shot storyboarding works, the character consistency system, multimodal capabilities, competitive comparisons, pricing, and how to use Kling 3.0 through AdCreate's multi-model system.

What Is New in Kling 3.0 vs Kling 2.6

Kling 3.0 is not a single model -- it is a family of four models released together: Video 3.0, Video 3.0 Omni, Image 3.0, and Image 3.0 Omni. Each represents a major architectural upgrade over the Kling 2.6 generation.

Here is what changed:

Feature	Kling 2.6	Kling 3.0
Maximum resolution	1080p	Native 4K (3840x2160)
Frame rate	30 FPS	60 FPS
Maximum duration	10 seconds	15 seconds
Multi-shot storyboard	Not available	Up to 6 camera cuts per generation
Character consistency	Basic face lock	Full identity lock (face, posture, clothing, voice)
Audio generation	Separate pipeline	Native synchronized audio in one pass
Multimodal I/O	Text and image input	Text, image, audio, and video input/output
Language support	Limited	Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish with dialects
Image generation	Up to 1080p	2K and 4K ultra-high-definition

The architectural change underlying all of this is what Kuaishou describes as scene reasoning. Similar to how large language models reason through logic steps before generating text, Kling 3.0 reasons through scenes before rendering frames. The model plans shot composition, subject movement, camera angles, and scene transitions before it starts generating pixels. This is why multi-shot storyboarding works -- the model understands narrative structure, not just frame-by-frame generation.

For anyone creating video ads, the practical impact is immediate. You can now generate a complete multi-shot product video in a single prompt instead of generating individual clips and stitching them together in post-production.

Native 4K at 60 FPS: What This Means for Ad Production

Kling 3.0 generates video at 3840x2160 resolution and 60 frames per second natively. This is not upscaled 1080p. The model renders genuine detail at 4K, which means every frame holds up on the largest screens.

Previous AI video generators topped out at 1080p, limiting their use to social media and web placements. At native 4K, Kling 3.0 output is now suitable for connected TV (CTV) advertising, digital out-of-home (DOOH) displays, YouTube pre-roll at maximum quality, large-format retail displays, and broadcast television.

The jump from 30 FPS to 60 FPS is equally meaningful. Smooth motion directly impacts perceived production value. Product demos, fashion content, automotive reveals -- any ad format involving movement looks noticeably more polished at 60 FPS.

With 4K native output, AI-generated clips can go directly into professional editing timelines alongside footage from cinema cameras. This removes one of the last practical barriers to mixing AI-generated content with traditional footage. For brands creating video ads through AdCreate's text-to-video or image-to-video tools, AI-generated output now matches the resolution standard of every major ad placement -- from TikTok to connected television.

Multi-Shot Storyboard Feature Deep-Dive

The multi-shot storyboard capability in Video 3.0 Omni is arguably the most significant feature in Kling 3.0 for advertisers. It lets you define up to six distinct camera cuts within a single 15-second generation, with full control over each shot.

How It Works

Instead of writing a single prompt that describes one continuous shot, you define a storyboard where each shot specifies:

• Duration: How long each shot lasts within the 15-second window
• Shot size: Close-up, medium shot, wide shot, extreme close-up, and other standard cinematography framing
• Perspective: Camera angle and point of view for each shot
• Narrative content: What happens in each shot -- the action, subjects, and scene description
• Camera movements: Pan, tilt, dolly, zoom, tracking, or static camera for each shot

The model handles transitions between shots, maintains subject continuity across cuts, and manages the overall narrative flow automatically.

Example: Product Demo Storyboard

Here is how a six-shot product demo ad might be structured:

• Shot 1 (0-2s): Wide establishing shot, slow dolly in, product on display surface with lifestyle context
• Shot 2 (2-4.5s): Medium shot, static camera, hand picks up product, shows front design
• Shot 3 (4.5-6.5s): Extreme close-up, slow pan, product detail and texture
• Shot 4 (6.5-9s): Medium shot, slight tracking, product in use demonstration
• Shot 5 (9-12s): Close-up on face, static, reaction shot showing satisfaction
• Shot 6 (12-15s): Wide shot, slow zoom out, product hero placement with brand context

Previously, creating this kind of structured product demo required generating six separate clips, ensuring visual consistency between them, and editing them together. Now it is a single generation with built-in continuity.

Why This Matters for Advertising

Professional video ads follow established shot patterns -- establishing shot, detail shot, usage shot, hero shot. Before multi-shot storyboarding, AI video generators only produced single continuous shots, requiring manual editing and careful prompt engineering to build structured ads.

Kling 3.0's multi-shot system produces output that follows professional ad structure natively. This is particularly powerful when combined with AdCreate's AI ad generation tools, which leverage multi-shot capabilities to produce complete, structured ad videos in a single generation step.

Character Consistency System Explained

Kling 3.0 introduces what Kuaishou calls "universe-strongest consistency" -- the ability for subjects to retain their complete visual identity across multiple camera angles, shot transitions, scene changes, and voice synchronization.

How the Consistency System Works

The character consistency feature works through Kling's "Elements" system:

1. Upload a reference: You provide a reference image or a short reference video (3-8 seconds) of your character or subject
2. Trait extraction: The model extracts core visual traits -- face structure, skin tone, hair, posture, clothing details, and (from video references) voice characteristics
3. Identity lock: These traits are locked across the entire generation, maintaining consistency through camera changes, scene transitions, lighting shifts, and interactions with other characters
4. Multi-shot preservation: In storyboard mode, the character remains visually consistent across all six possible shots, even with dramatic perspective and framing changes

What Stays Consistent

The consistency system preserves:

• Facial features and proportions across angles
• Clothing details, patterns, and fit
• Hair style, color, and movement characteristics
• Body posture and movement style
• Voice timbre and speaking patterns (when using video reference)
• Accessories and distinguishing features

Advertising Applications

For ad production, character consistency solves one of the biggest practical problems with AI video: generating multiple ad variations that feature the same spokesperson, model, or character.

Consider a campaign that needs:

• A 15-second hero ad with the spokesperson
• Five 6-second variations for different product benefits
• Three platform-specific edits (vertical for TikTok, square for Instagram, horizontal for YouTube)
• Retargeting ads featuring the same character

With character consistency, all of these can feature the same AI-generated character with a single reference upload. The character looks and sounds the same across every variation, every format, and every placement.

This pairs directly with AdCreate's talking avatar system, which already offers over 100 AI avatars for ad creation. Kling 3.0's consistency system adds another dimension to avatar-based advertising by allowing custom character references that maintain identity across complex multi-shot narratives.

Multimodal Input and Output Capabilities

Kling 3.0 is built on a unified multimodal framework that processes and generates text, images, audio, and video simultaneously -- not four separate models stitched together.

This enables workflows that were previously impossible in a single step: describe a scene in text and get a video with synchronized dialogue, sound effects, and ambient audio. Upload a product photo and get a narrated video. Provide a voiceover track and generate video that matches the audio timing and emotional tone. Upload a reference video and generate new content maintaining the style and character traits.

Previous AI video generators produced silent video. Audio had to be sourced separately and synced in post-production. Kling 3.0 generates audio and video in a single pass, so lip synchronization is native, sound effects are timed to on-screen actions, and ambient audio matches the visual environment. For advertising, this eliminates an entire post-production step.

Multi-Language Audio Generation

Kling 3.0 supports native audio generation in five languages with dialect and accent variation:

• Chinese: Multiple regional dialects
• English: Various accents (American, British, Australian, and others)
• Japanese: Standard and regional variations
• Korean: Standard pronunciation
• Spanish: Castilian and Latin American variants

Why Multi-Language Matters for Advertisers

Global advertising campaigns typically require localized voiceover, which means hiring voice actors, recording sessions, and careful lip-sync editing for each market. Kling 3.0's native multi-language audio generation means a single video generation can produce the same ad in multiple languages with native lip synchronization.

For a brand running ads across the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Chinese-speaking markets, this compresses what was a multi-week localization process into a generation workflow that takes minutes per language variant.

Combined with AdCreate's multi-language avatar capabilities, which support over 40 languages, brands can now create localized video ad campaigns at a scale and speed that was previously available only to the largest global advertisers.

Image 3.0 Capabilities

Alongside the video models, Kling 3.0 includes Image 3.0 and Image 3.0 Omni for still image generation at up to 4K resolution.

Key improvements include significantly better photorealism (skin texture, lighting accuracy, material rendering), multimodal input (text, reference images, or both), and -- critically -- visual consistency with Video 3.0. Characters and products generated in Image 3.0 can be used directly as references for Video 3.0 generation, maintaining identity across still and motion formats.

At 4K resolution, Image 3.0 opens AI image generation to placements that previously required traditional photography: print advertising, billboard and outdoor formats, product catalogs, website hero images, and social media static ads at maximum platform quality. For campaigns spanning both still and video, this cross-model consistency keeps brand identity intact across every touchpoint.

Kling 3.0 for Advertising: Use Cases by Format

Kling 3.0's feature set maps directly to specific advertising formats. Here is how each capability translates to ad production.

Product Demo Ads

Multi-shot storyboarding was practically designed for product demos. A six-shot structure lets you build a complete product narrative: establish context, show the product, demonstrate features, capture a reaction, and close with a hero shot. Native 4K means detail shots actually show product texture and design at the resolution needed to convince viewers. Best features: Multi-shot storyboard, 4K resolution, synchronized audio.

UGC-Style Ads

Character consistency combined with multi-language audio makes UGC-style advertising scalable across markets. Create a reference character, generate testimonial content in each target market's native language, and maintain the same character identity across all variations. For UGC-style ad creation, AdCreate's AI video ad generator provides a streamlined workflow combining character selection, script generation, and multi-format output. Best features: Character consistency, multi-language audio, multimodal generation.

Brand Story Ads

Kling 3.0's scene reasoning and multi-shot storyboarding make it possible to generate brand narrative content with proper cinematic structure -- establishing shots, progressive reveals, and hero moments. At 4K and 60 FPS, the output meets the visual standard that brand advertising demands. Best features: Multi-shot storyboard, scene reasoning, 4K/60FPS.

Social Media Ads (Reels, TikTok, Shorts)

The 15-second generation length (up from 10 seconds) now matches the ideal duration for Reels and TikTok ads. Multi-shot storyboarding within that window means you can build proper hook-body-CTA structure with professional shot variety in a single generation. Best features: 15-second duration, multi-shot storyboard, character consistency.

Connected TV (CTV) Ads

Native 4K output makes Kling 3.0 the first AI video generator suitable for CTV placements without quality compromises. With 4K at 60 FPS, AI-generated CTV ads are technically feasible at a production cost that makes connected TV accessible to brands that could never justify traditional CTV budgets. Best features: Native 4K/60FPS, multi-shot storyboard, synchronized audio.

Kling 3.0 vs Sora 2 vs Veo 3.1 vs Seedance 2.0

Here is how the four major AI video generators compare in February 2026.

Resolution and Frame Rate

Model	Max Resolution	Max FPS	Max Duration
Kling 3.0	4K (3840x2160)	60	15 seconds
Sora 2	1080p	30	20 seconds
Veo 3.1	4K	30	8 seconds
Seedance 2.0	1080p	30	10 seconds

Kling 3.0 leads on combined resolution and frame rate. Veo 3.1 matches on resolution but at half the frame rate and shorter duration.

Multi-Shot, Audio, and Storyboarding

Kling 3.0 is the only model with native multi-shot storyboarding (up to six cuts per generation). Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 produce single continuous shots. Seedance 2.0 has basic scene transitions but lacks Kling's per-shot control.

On audio, Veo 3.1 leads with the most natural dialogue, sound effects, and music baked into generation. Kling 3.0 is close behind with synchronized audio across five languages. Sora 2 generates audio with less natural lip sync. Seedance 2.0 offers basic audio.

Character Consistency and Motion

Kling 3.0 has the most advanced character consistency system, preserving face, clothing, posture, and voice across multi-shot sequences. Sora 2 has strong consistency within single shots but weaker across separate generations. Veo 3.1 focuses on natural body language and lip sync. Seedance 2.0 offers effective reference-based consistency but struggles with dramatic angle changes.

On physics and motion realism, Sora 2 leads for complex multi-subject interactions. Kling 3.0 excels at natural body movement and fabric physics. Veo 3.1 produces the most lifelike facial expressions. Seedance 2.0 is strong in dance and rhythmic motion.

Pricing

Model	Approximate Cost per Second
Kling 3.0	~$0.10/sec
Sora 2	~$0.15/sec
Veo 3.1	~$0.20/sec (includes audio)
Seedance 2.0	~$0.08/sec

Kling 3.0 offers the best value when you factor in 4K, 60 FPS, and multi-shot capabilities at its price point.

Best Use Case by Model

• Kling 3.0: Structured multi-shot ads, product demos, 4K-required placements, multi-language campaigns
• Sora 2: Complex scene descriptions, physics-heavy content, precise prompt following
• Veo 3.1: Dialogue-heavy content, natural lip sync, character-driven narratives
• Seedance 2.0: Template-based production, music-synced content, high-volume social content

The most effective workflows in 2026 use multiple models for their respective strengths.

How to Access Kling 3.0 and Pricing

Current Access (February 2026)

Kling 3.0 is currently in exclusive early access for Ultra subscribers on the Kling AI platform. Broader rollout to other subscription tiers is expected in the coming weeks.

Kling AI Subscription Tiers

• Free tier: Limited generations, lower resolution, longer queue times
• Standard: ~$10/month with 660 credits -- suitable for testing and occasional use
• Pro: ~$37/month with 3,000 credits -- suitable for regular content creation (approximately 150 standard videos)
• Premier: Mid-tier pricing with additional credits and priority processing
• Ultra: ~$180/month with 26,000 credits -- required for Kling 3.0 early access, lowest per-credit cost at approximately $0.007 per credit

Credit Usage for 3.0 Features

4K generation and multi-shot storyboarding consume more credits per generation than standard resolution single-shot outputs. Expect 4K multi-shot generations to use 3-5x the credits of a standard 1080p single-shot generation. Plan your credit allocation accordingly, especially during the early access period when only Ultra subscribers can access 3.0 features.

API Access

Kling offers API access for developers and platforms that want to integrate Kling 3.0 into their own workflows. API pricing follows a per-second model at approximately $0.10 per second of generated video.

Using Kling 3.0 Through AdCreate's Multi-Model System

Accessing Kling 3.0 directly gives you the raw model. But advertising production also requires prompt engineering, storyboard structuring, character reference management, multi-platform formatting, and creative variation testing. AdCreate's AI tools handle the full workflow.

Multi-model routing: AdCreate's pipeline supports multiple AI video models and automatically selects the best one for each task. When Kling 3.0's multi-shot storyboarding fits a product demo, the system uses Kling. When Veo 3.1's audio generation suits a dialogue-heavy testimonial, it routes accordingly.

Ad-optimized prompting: AdCreate translates your creative brief into optimized Kling 3.0 storyboard prompts -- shot structure, camera directions, character references, and audio specifications -- automatically.

Platform-specific output: A single brief generates output for TikTok (9:16), Instagram Reels (9:16), YouTube (16:9), Instagram Feed (1:1), and CTV (16:9 at 4K).

Template-driven creation: AdCreate's ad templates provide proven ad structures that map directly to Kling 3.0's multi-shot capabilities. Select a product demo template, and the system generates a six-shot storyboard prompt following high-performing structures.

Creative testing at scale: Generate dozens of creative variations and test them against each other to find the highest-performing creative before scaling spend.

Get started with AdCreate's video generation tools to create your first Kling 3.0-powered ad. New accounts receive 50 free credits to test the full workflow.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Kling 3.0 and when was it released?

Kling 3.0 is the latest AI video generation model family from Kuaishou, released February 5, 2026. It includes four models -- Video 3.0, Video 3.0 Omni, Image 3.0, and Image 3.0 Omni -- introducing native 4K at 60 FPS, multi-shot storyboarding, advanced character consistency, full multimodal I/O, and multi-language audio generation.

How does Kling 3.0's multi-shot storyboard work?

Video 3.0 Omni lets you define up to six distinct camera shots within a single 15-second generation. For each shot, you specify duration, shot size, camera perspective, narrative content, and camera movements. The model generates all shots in sequence with automatic transitions and maintains subject continuity across every cut.

Is Kling 3.0 really native 4K or is it upscaled?

Kling 3.0 generates at true native 4K (3840x2160). This is not upscaled 1080p. The output is suitable for broadcast, connected TV, digital out-of-home, and large-format displays without upscaling artifacts.

How much does Kling 3.0 cost?

Currently available exclusively to Ultra subscribers at ~$180/month (or ~$119/month annual) with 26,000 credits. The Pro tier at ~$37/month with 3,000 credits will gain access when broader rollout occurs. 4K multi-shot generations use 3-5x more credits than standard 1080p single-shot output.

How does Kling 3.0 compare to Sora 2?

Kling 3.0 leads on resolution (4K vs 1080p), frame rate (60 vs 30 FPS), and structured storyboarding (6-shot multi-cut vs single shot). Sora 2 leads on physics simulation and complex prompt following. Kling 3.0 costs ~$0.10/sec versus Sora 2 at ~$0.15/sec. Kling 3.0 is generally better for structured product ads; Sora 2 excels at narrative content with complex physical interactions.

Can Kling 3.0 maintain the same character across multiple videos?

Yes. The Elements system lets you upload a reference image or 3-8 second video. The model extracts facial features, body proportions, clothing, posture, and voice, then preserves all traits across every generation using that reference -- within multi-shot storyboards and across separate sessions.

What languages does Kling 3.0 support for audio generation?

Five languages with dialect variation: Chinese (regional dialects), English (American, British, Australian accents), Japanese, Korean, and Spanish (Castilian and Latin American). Audio is generated simultaneously with video in a single pass, so lip sync is native.

Can I use Kling 3.0 for commercial advertising?

Yes. Kling AI permits commercial use for paid subscribers, including paid ad campaigns across social media, programmatic display, and connected TV. For professional workflows, platforms like AdCreate provide additional formatting, templating, and optimization tools.

How does Kling 3.0's Image 3.0 compare to its video capabilities?

Image 3.0 generates stills at up to 4K with significantly improved photorealism. The key advantage is cross-model consistency: characters generated in Image 3.0 can serve as references for Video 3.0, maintaining visual identity across still and motion formats.

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Kling 3.0 raises the ceiling on what AI video generation can deliver for advertising. Native 4K, multi-shot storyboards, and character consistency make it possible to produce structured, broadcast-quality ad content in minutes. Combine it with AdCreate's multi-model video generation platform to access Kling 3.0 alongside every other top AI video model -- with ad-optimized prompting, platform-specific formatting, and proven templates built in. Start with 50 free credits and create your first AI video ad today at AdCreate.