The Agnes Video 2.5 series models have officially launched on the Pavo platform, with their Elo score on the AA blind test leaderboard rising from 917 to 1082, placing them firmly within the competitive range of mainstream commercial video models. The API reference price is just $1.5 per minute. The platform also introduces a free Flash version, supporting 720p resolution, 4–12 second video generation, 3 RPM speed, and 200 free trial credits per day. Combined with infinite canvas and Agent creation modes, users can achieve an automated workflow from script to final video, with no additional cost for producing entire short dramas. Through a strategy of high-performance models paired with low costs, Pavo provides AI short-form drama and self-media creators with an efficient, controllable industrial production tool.

Article author and source: AI New Era

Recently, AI-generated short dramas have swept across all platforms.

Countless AI-generated short dramas and webcomics have gone viral, not to mention the recent sensation, the live-level masterpiece "Cloud Palace."

The author of "Cloud Palace" created the viral sensation using Pavo.

But when you truly try to use AI to create a viral video, you find that gacha pulls are too expensive, consistency is poor, and the workflow is fragmented—like opening blind boxes.

High-frequency AI video creators currently face their biggest pain point: Can they afford the cost of generating a complete video with AI?

Just now, a major announcement came through—

The Agnes Video 2.5 series models are now officially live on the Pavo platform!

This tool is more than enough to end the high costs of AI short drama production.

The barrier for ordinary people to create AI short videos and AI short dramas has been drastically lowered.

Recently, the extremely crude, absurd art style and purely hand-crafted modeling of "Niu Lai" have made it a sensation abroad, regarded by foreigners as a "beacon of human art."

Eager to get started, we immediately tried it out on the Pavo platform.

We provide Agnes Video 2.5 with a first frame and a last frame to generate a video.

The result had us laughing so hard we were searching for our heads—this absurd art style fits the original work perfectly.

Just how good is Agnes Video 2.5?

Why is Agnes Video 2.5 so effective? The ranking scores speak for themselves.

In the AA blind test rankings, Agnes Video's Elo score increased from 917 at version 2.0 to 1082 at version 2.5, entering the competitive range of mainstream commercial video models.

More importantly, the API reference price for Agnes Video 2.5 is only $1.5 per minute, maintaining a clear cost advantage over comparable models.

Leaderboard URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video

It has been significantly optimized in terms of visual texture, naturalness of character movements, smoothness of camera motion, and physical logic in complex scenes.

Whether it’s a beautifully styled ancient-style short drama, a cyberpunk sci-fi short film, or a high-end commercial advertisement, its final production quality is outstanding.

Zero-cost experimentation: Agnes Video 2.5 Flash is now freely available

In terms of usage, the free rules for the Flash version are very straightforward:

The free version supports up to five images as reference and audio input.

Video quality and duration: 720p resolution, supports generating 4–12 seconds per clip!

Rate: 3 RPM—more than sufficient for daily draws.

From now on, you won't feel the pain every time you generate a new scene when making AI videos.

You can conduct extensive pre-visualization, shot testing, style exploration, and batch storyboard validation using the Flash version. If the prompts are off or the composition isn’t right, you can test repeatedly until you achieve the final result you’re satisfied with.

After extensive refinement, we have successfully generated this scene from the xianxia drama.

If you have higher requirements for video quality, Agnes-Video-2.5 Standard Edition is your best choice.

Although not free, Pavo grants users 200 free trial points each day.

At a rate of 2 points per second, you can generate up to 100 seconds of high-quality video for free each day.

In actual production, you can completely use free Flash to prototype, then produce the final output using the daily free 2.5 Standard version—this combination is unbeatable in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Below is the result generated by Agnes-Video-2.5.

For example, the live audience of Chinese TV talent shows around 2005 is rendered with exceptional accuracy.

An AI short film with a realistic art style set on a campus, featuring intense plotlines that explain why so many people have recently become hooked on AI short films.

Pavo's "Infinite Canvas" makes creation as natural as breathing.

But when creation scales from a single demo to dozens or even hundreds of shots, the real challenge goes beyond just the generation quality.

How do you manage assets? How do you maintain consistency in characters? If one shot goes wrong, do you have to redo the entire video?

At this point, Pavo’s “infinite canvas” comes in handy.

On the canvas, text, images, and videos can all be turned into individual nodes.

From scripts and character designs to opening and closing video frames, everything can continue to be generated within the same space.

Image and video generation also offer different styles such as 2D, 3D, and realistic, allowing you to select directly based on your project type.

This time, we used it directly to create a fantasy short film, "The Last Lamp."

In the story, the entire city suddenly went dark. The young lamplighter climbed to the observatory with the last remaining flame, restarted the armillary sphere, and brought dawn back to the city.

We will first save the Lantern Bearer, Octagonal Bronze Lamp, Canal City, and Observatory as core assets. For future generation of new scenes, these can be directly referenced without needing to re-upload or re-describe them.

Then, the story is broken into a sequence of scenes—cities going dark, rushing toward stone steps, entering the observatory, installing copper lamps, and the entire city coming back to light—all laid out on a single canvas.

The two adjacent images serve as the first and last frames, respectively, and are then passed to Agnes Video 2.5 to generate the intermediate motion and camera movements.

Interestingly, if an issue arises with a particular frame, you don’t need to start over entirely.

For example, at the end, instead of instantly illuminating the entire city, we extended the scene from the moment "the bronze lamp is inserted into the armillary sphere": first, golden light gradually illuminates the concentric bronze rings, then cuts to a wide shot of the entire city coming back to life at sunrise.

Different scenes and generated versions will remain on the canvas, allowing you to compare and adjust them at any time. Finally, you only need to reconnect the selected nodes back to the main timeline—previously completed shots require no rework.

For more precise control over character positioning, poses, and special camera angles, you can also use the 3D director’s platform to pre-visualize shots and reduce randomness caused by prompts alone.

If one path is unsatisfactory, create a new branch; if an issue arises in a specific frame, make corrections starting from that frame.

Ultimately, we pieced together these shots to form the complete "The Last Light."

Draw fewer cards, rebuild fewer times.

The reduced infinite canvas lowers not only the generation cost but also the revision cost within the complete artwork.

Zero experience in short films? Pavo’s ‘Agent Creation Mode’ is incredible!

If you say: "I can't even write a script or understand storyboards—how can I make a short film?"

Don’t worry—the AI Short Drama/Short Film mode built by Pavo on its proprietary Harness framework is tailored just for you!

Just upload your script or describe your story idea in natural language—the rest can be fully handled by Pavo's Agent!

It will help you automatically complete the entire process—

Story concept → Write the script → Set characters and scenes → Design storyboards → Generate image assets → Convert into video shots → Final production!

Next, we entrust the story of a father and daughter reuniting to Pavo, guiding the Agent from character development, plot breakdown, and storyboard design all the way to the final production.

Pavo first mapped out the character relationships, emotional turning points, and scene progression, then generated a complete script outline.

The story is not complicated.

A heavy rain, a front door that hadn’t been knocked on in three years, and two bowls of hot noodles already served.

The female protagonist, Lin Xiaoman, is a 31-year-old food delivery rider. Three years ago, she had a fierce argument with her father and left home with her belongings. Since then, neither father nor daughter has made the first move to reconcile; whenever either calls, the call is usually hung up before it’s answered.

That evening, after finishing work, Xiaoman found herself inexplicably cycling back down the familiar old alley.

Following this storyline, Pavo breaks the narrative into sequential segments—returning in the rain, hesitating at the door, father-daughter reunion, stepping inside the home, sharing a meal together, and reconciling their relationship—and begins generating the core assets for the father, daughter, and the old house.

Xiaoman always wore a yellow waterproof jacket, had a low ponytail, and held a black helmet in her hand; her father maintained his salt-and-pepper short hair, a faded navy blue sweater, and a slightly hunched posture.

These details may seem ordinary, but they determine whether the short drama can succeed.

Because the audience must believe that the woman riding in the rain and the daughter at the dining table are the same person, and that the silent elder at the door and the father who brings her steaming noodles are also the same person.

After identifying the main assets, Pavo continued to translate the narrative into specific shots: a wide shot of the rainy alley establishes the setting, a medium shot at the door conveys hesitation, a shot-reverse shot after the door opens depicts the father-daughter reunion, and finally, a close-up of the dinner table brings the emotion to a close.

Each scene can generate additional images and videos. If an issue arises in a particular shot, you can modify just that frame without having to redo the entire short film from scratch.

The final segment does not include crying, hugging, or frantic apologies.

The father simply watched in silence, while Xiao Man picked up the bowl of already-prepared noodles and took her first bite.

After finishing her meal, she put down her chopsticks and finally looked at her father:

Dad, I'll come again tomorrow.

The father paused briefly and nodded gently:

Still this time for dinner.

The story ends here.

The rain outside the window continued to fall, and the two bowls of noodles on the table still steamed. The father and daughter did not utter the apology that had been delayed for three years, but the audience knew that the door between them had finally reopened.

Notably, all tests of this short drama were completed using the daily complimentary points provided by Pavo, with no additional charges incurred.

Clearly, compared to traditional short-form drama production, which often requires hundreds of thousands of dollars and large teams, Pavo enables true low barriers to entry, low costs, and continuous creation.

This exceptional value naturally attracts many users. On the Pavo platform, numerous users have already created remarkably impressive short films.

For example, a story in which the female protagonist, after losing her memory in a car accident, meets her handsome husband.

Got trapped in a romance game and accidentally became the villainous female character—maximum suspense.

How could a short drama be complete without the Dragon King series? Here it is: "The Return of the Dragon King: Supreme Warrior."

How would a Pixar-style hilarious animated short depict the "Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage" from Romance of the Three Kingdoms? This two-minute play is truly astonishing.

In the second half of AI video, the competition is about "control" and "cost."

After reviewing the above real-world tests, you will surely be impressed by this powerful combination.

The high-capability model (Agnes 2.5) elevates the upper limit of your work.

The free strategy (Flash version + daily points) covers your trial-and-error costs.

The Pavo platform (infinite canvas + short-form drama agent) connects all of this into an efficient, controllable industrial production line.

This can be seen as a reshuffling of the short-form drama and AI-driven self-media sectors.

In the past, many people gave up halfway through their projects due to high costs.

Now, Pavo puts the tools directly into your hands—for free—so you can fully unleash your creative vision.

What are you waiting for? Try it now!

Access the Pavo product here to start your directorial journey now: https://app.pavo-ai.cn/