Pending benchmarksTracking since Oct 16, 2026
Is Kling 4.0 state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 15, 2026; no independent results yet.
Kling AI's video generation model, now fully available after early access through kling.ai, MCP and a CLI. The lab says an API, 4K and 1080p 10-bit HDR are coming soon.
Announced facts
The details so far
- Lab
- Kling
- Announced
- Oct 15, 2026
- API
- Not yet
- Open weights
- Unknown
- Focus
- Video generation
- Available
- kling.ai, MCP, CLI
- API
- Coming soon
- Coming soon
- 4K and 1080p 10-bit HDR
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
Next steps
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
Receipts
Sources
LABKling AI announcement on Xx.com/Kling_ai/status/2110747537187709424 · Oct 15, 2026Tracking ends Jan 14, 2027 unless the API or weights become available.