---
title: "Veo 3.1 Lite"
description: "Veo 3.1 Lite on Kuro: The volume tier of the Veo family. Audio is compulsory; 1080p only runs at eight seconds."
canonical_url: "https://meetkuro.com/models/veo-3.1-lite/"
locale: "en"
model: "veo-3.1-lite"
---

# Veo 3.1 Lite

Google · Shorts · standard

The volume tier of the Veo family. Audio is compulsory; 1080p only runs at eight seconds.

## What it costs

- 5s · 720p: 21 credits (≈ $0.50)
- 5s · 1080p: 33.5 credits (≈ $0.80)

Dollar figures are approximate, at the Starter plan's rate of $19.00 for 800 credits.

## What it takes

- **Aspect ratios**: 16:9  9:16
- **Resolutions**: 720p  1080p
- **Duration**: 4, 6, 8 seconds
- **Reference images**: Not accepted
- **Last frame**: Accepted
- **Audio**: Always generated

## When to reach for it

The cheapest Veo by a wide margin, 21 credits for a five-second 720p take against 83.5 on the full model, and the right choice for the shots nobody will study. B-roll, establishing plates, background footage, anything where the sound is atmosphere rather than content.

Two constraints to plan around. Audio is always generated, with no silent mode at all, so if you need a mute clip from this family the answer is Fast rather than Lite. And at 1080p the only available duration is eight seconds; the shorter four- and six-second steps exist at 720p only. That combination catches people out when they ask for a short 1080p take and get a validation error rather than a clip.

No reference images. Like Fast, it accepts a last frame, so frame-chaining works, but character continuity does not. Two aspect ratios, as with the rest of the family.

## How to prompt Veo 3.1 Lite

Veo 3.1 Lite takes the same script and sound notation as Veo 3.1, but its sound is always on — a silent clip has to come from Veo 3.1 or Fast — and it has no reference-image slot. Its 1080p runs only at eight seconds.

[Read the full Veo 3.1 prompting guide](https://meetkuro.com/models/veo-3.1.md)

## Guides that cover it

- [Two pictures, fifteen seconds: the first-and-last-frame method](https://meetkuro.com/guides/first-and-last-frame.md): Make the opening frame and the closing frame yourself, hand a video model both, and let it fill the middle. Most models take a last frame. What it buys.
- [Veo 3.1: the complete prompting guide](https://meetkuro.com/guides/veo-3-1-prompting.md): Eight seconds of video that writes its own soundtrack. Three audio channels, seven rules, four pipelines and the failures worth knowing about first.

## Veo 3.1 Lite is one pick in the composer.

Every model in this catalog runs from the same prompt bar, priced in the same credits.

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## About Kuro

Kuro is an AI picture studio: prompt-driven images, clips, voice-overs and music, and storyboard-backed films with consistent characters across every scene.

Agents connect over MCP and can generate directly:

```
claude mcp add kuro https://api.meetkuro.com/mcp --transport http
```

The app is at https://app.meetkuro.com and requires an account.

Each guide, model page, comparison and free tool page on this site (not a tool's variants, and not the index pages) has a Markdown twin at its own URL plus `.md`, and so do /benchmarks/, the English /agents/ page (as /agents.md) and the MCP tool reference. Model catalog: https://meetkuro.com/models/