Ray
Ray is Luma AI's flagship text-to-video and image-to-video model — generating realistic motion with natural coherence from text or image prompts. Create cinematic videos with intuitive control on AI Compare Hub.
What you can create
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Text-to-video storytelling
Bring narrative ideas to life directly from written descriptions. Ray understands complex scene directions, camera movements, and character actions, translating text prompts into coherent video sequences.
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Image-to-video animation
Animate static images with realistic motion. Start with a photograph or artwork and add lifelike motion, camera movement, or character animation while maintaining visual consistency.
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Marketing and product videos
Create promotional videos, product showcases, and brand storytelling content. Ray's natural motion makes commercial content that engages audiences without expensive production overhead.
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Concept and motion exploration
Quickly explore motion concepts and cinematography ideas. Ray's intuitive generation enables rapid prototyping for larger video projects or visual planning.
Why creators choose Ray
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Natural, coherent motion generation
Ray generates motion that respects physics and natural world behavior. Objects move with realistic weight and momentum, characters perform naturally, and environmental elements maintain spatial consistency throughout generated videos.
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Flexible input options
Generate videos purely from text prompts, or use image-to-video to animate existing artwork and photography. This flexibility supports diverse creative workflows from pure imagination to image augmentation.
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Intuitive prompt-based control
Ray responds to detailed textual descriptions of motion, camera work, lighting, and composition. No technical parameters required—describe your vision and Ray interprets it into video form.
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Cinematic visual quality
Ray produces visually polished videos with natural lighting, realistic textures, and cinematographic composition. Output quality rivals professional video production for many use cases.
How to generate your first video
- Write your prompt. Describe your desired video—include subject matter, motion, camera movement, mood, lighting, and any specific visual elements. The more detailed your description, the better Ray interprets your vision.
- Configure your settings. Choose text-to-video or image-to-video mode. For image-to-video, upload your source image. Select your preferred duration and aspect ratio.
Common questions
What is Ray?
Ray is Luma AI's advanced video generation model supporting both text-to-video and image-to-video generation. It creates realistic, coherent motion based on text prompts or images, with natural physics simulation and cinematographic control for professional-quality video output.
Can Ray generate videos from text alone?
Yes, Ray generates videos directly from text prompts. Describe your desired video scene—motion, composition, mood, camera work—and Ray creates a realistic video matching your description.
How does image-to-video work with Ray?
In image-to-video mode, Ray animates a static image you provide. Add a text prompt describing the motion and camera movement you want, and Ray generates a video that brings your image to life while maintaining visual consistency.
How can you use Ray on AI Compare Hub?
To generate videos with Ray on AI Compare Hub, click the "Ray" button at the top of this page. Write your prompt, choose your generation mode (text-to-video or image-to-video), configure your preferences, and generate in seconds. You can also compare Ray side-by-side with other leading AI models — all in one place, for free.
Key Parameters
- Category: Video
- Released: 2025
- Processing speed: medium
For the Use of This Model
The Ray model by Luma is a video generation model, designed to produce high-quality motion outputs with smooth temporal consistency. Before you use it on AI Compare Hub, please keep in mind:
- Use responsibly. Do not create or share content that is harmful, misleading, or that violates others’ rights. You are responsible for the prompts you submit and how you use the outputs.
- Outputs & responsibility. You control the videos you generate here. Under Luma’s API/Business Terms, users retain ownership of their generated outputs, and Luma commits not to train its models on your API inputs or outputs. Data processed through Replicate is shared with Luma in accordance with Luma’s Privacy Policy. You must also ensure your usage complies with copyright, privacy, export, and other applicable laws.
- Video generation focus. Ray is tuned for general-purpose video creation, balancing speed and visual fidelity. It is well suited for creative storytelling, concept visualization, and short-form media. Output quality may vary depending on prompt clarity and references.
- No guarantees. Outputs are generated probabilistically and may not always match your intent. The model and this service are provided “as is” without warranties.
- Terms of use. Your use of this model is governed by Luma’s API/Business Terms.
- Restrictions reminder. Luma’s terms prohibit certain uses, including training or building competing AI models with outputs, use with prohibited data (such as biometric or health data), deployment in high-risk or military applications, and any unlawful or export-restricted activity.
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