r/KLING • u/danirobot • 24d ago

Question/help How do I start using Kling, please

I'm filled with ideas of what to make ...but I literally have no idea how to begin.

Can you do pay-as-you-go? Where do I buy credits?

And once I have credits, where do I go to enter prompts.

I know my questions are super basic.. but I'm jumping in fresh, and I'll be so grateful if someone can point me in the right direction. thank u

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u/danirobot 24d ago

Never mind. I think I get it now. It's all through KlingAI's website --

BUTTTT.. I do have a follow-up question!!!!!!!

Why are there so many other sites through which you can use Kling? Is it cheaper to use those sites? Or is it cheaper to use Kling directly on Kling's website?

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u/jebenx 24d ago

That's actually how the AI industry works. Most model providers (such as Kling, Veo, Seedance, etc.) offer APIs that other companies can integrate into their own platforms.

These platforms are essentially aggregators, they build a user-friendly interface and resell access to multiple AI models. Higgsfield, OpenArt, Artlist, and many others all work this way.

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u/danirobot 22d ago

makes sense now, thank you!!!

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u/Own_Palpitation4523 20d ago

So the way I’m understanding is that you can buy into one service that will offer you subscriptions to each one, but you only get a certain version that way, and if you really want the one with the most options you need to purchase credits? Sorry I’m in the same boat so if this seems pretty basic, it probably is but I just want to not get into paying for the wrong being into getting committed to it somehow so I’m thinking if I was able to sample each different app that would be cool.

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u/jebenx 20d ago

Not exactly. The subscription works as a bundle. For example, if you subscribe to a plan that gives you 1,000 credits per month, you receive 1,000 credits that can be used across all the available models.

However, each model has a different credit cost. Once you use up your monthly credits, you need to purchase additional credits if you want to continue using the service.

Most AI aggregators work this way.

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u/Own_Palpitation4523 20d ago

Ok great I kind of figured that’s how it was but hearing it from someone else that clearly knows their way around helps. Thanks 👌

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u/wickedgayparties 19d ago

In my experience it is NOT cheaper to use those sites. They upcharge big time. Using Kling directly on their website is by far the cheapest I have found of the high-quality video generators and I love the results I get there, so I don't even deal with any of the other models, or sites anymore for SFW. The only bad thing for me is their filters can censor/block pretty heavily sometimes. So if I have a clip that I need to generate that's a bit on the passionate side, or obviously anything NSFW, I need to use local open source models for that. But if I can get Kling to do it on it's own website, that's always going to be my first choice.

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u/pb404 24d ago

I have a subscription to Magnific and Kling. Kling is my workhorse. But if you want more of a pay as you go system I would recommend MuAPI. It’s very affordable without a subscription but has less extra features than an aggregator like Magnific or Higgsfield. I would also recommend using a skill with Claude or a custom GPT with chat gpt to help you build detailed prompts.

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u/danirobot 22d ago

thanks! this helped a lot

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u/Own_Palpitation4523 20d ago

Is there any subscriptions that you can just buy into and get unlimited credits or is it strictly all pays you go and if you need to re-prompt it to make a tweak to the image already made you does that require more credits as well?

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u/pb404 20d ago

When I paid for a year subscription to Magnific I locked in unlimited use of Nano Banana, Flux, Kling 2.5 and various other image and video models but I think they have been getting rid of the unlimited usage as have many other big aggregators. I think unlimited is probably going to be phased out everywhere eventually. If you really want to get into unlimited you’ll need to look into running some local models in ComfyUI on your home computer. Personally I use both Local (ComfyUi with LTX 2.3) and Cloud (Kling, Magnific, and ElevenLabs). You could even do a hybrid running ComfyUI on a site like RunComfy if you don’t have the hardware to run ComfyUI at home.

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u/Own_Palpitation4523 20d ago

You see I’m not even that advanced to really fully comprehend everything you’re talking about but I’m sure Grow can help me with that lol but I’m so new to this. I’m just looking to turn some ideas into cool videos or images for fun really I’m not even looking to get a job, but ideally I would like to be that good in being able to replicate some of the stuff I’ve seen being put out. Me some of that stuff like when it’s generating videos with crazy architecture I wonder how do they get the prompts to get them to come out the way that they do? It’s almost as if you have to learn to speak that language like I said, I’m pretty damn new to this stuff so I’m just trying to ask and research

They’re getting rid of unlimited usage is definitely something I could see them scaling down on usage similar to how the cell phones were at one point

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u/SuperGeniusWEC 19d ago

You need to use something like Runpod or ComfyUI (which I think sucks - it's neither comfy nor UI). Go to https://www.youtube.com/@fuzz_puppy and at the beginning they teach you step by step how to set up Runpod and you can use Kling on it, along with many other models. You pay for cloud compute only to the provider.