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Kling 4.0 incoming: Kling teases 'news' after Dev Mode leak of 4.0 Preview/Flash

Kling 4.0's real gain is control, with up to ten keyframes per generation, but the full model is not due until October and only the 720p Flash model is live, for top-tier subscribers.

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Kling announced Kling 4.0 on 28 September, and the feature many launch posts led with, native 4K, is not new: Kling shipped 4K output back in April. What is new is control. The full model, due in October with no day, price or developer access yet, can follow up to ten keyframe images in one generation and take a reference budget of 15 items that mixes stills, video clips, characters and a voice.

What you can open today is Kling 4.0 Flash, live only for Ultra yearly subscribers, at 720p and up to 20 seconds a clip. The 30-second single pass promised for October draws Kling level with Seedance 2.5, which has made 30-second takes since July, rather than ahead of it. Kling's showpiece film, THE BEAT, runs two minutes and 37 seconds, so it is many generations cut together.

In practice, treat Flash as a sketchpad for blocking shots and pacing, and save final renders for the full model. Before any of it goes into client work, read section 4.6 of Kling's terms, which bars commercial use of outputs without Kling's written permission.

Source: Kling release note and terms of service, Kling AI on X, 28 Sep 2026.

Provenance — Kling release note and terms of service, Kling AI on X, 28 Sep 2026 · Status: verified 1 Oct 2026: built from the linked research pack
Kling 4.0's real upgrade is control, not 4K. Today you get a 720p preview.
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Ideogram 4.5 lands on Luma, Pika and Krea the same day

Ideogram 4.5 is built so repeated edits stop degrading an image, but the only side-by-side test so far is Ideogram's own, run on prompts the company chose.

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Edit an AI image a few times and the parts you never touched start to drift: colors shift, pixels move and artifacts pile up. Ideogram released 4.5 on Wednesday and pitched it squarely at that problem, with a Precise Edit variant that applies your instruction, optionally inside a mask, and then copies the unchanged pixels back from the source.

It went out wide on day one. Krea, Pika and Luma all announced it within four hours of Ideogram's own launch post, alongside its app, its developer platform and partners including Runway and fal. Pricing runs across four quality modes, from 0.8 cents to 22 cents an image, all at native 2K.

The catch is the evidence. The only side-by-side so far is Ideogram's own, 14 edits against GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2 on prompts the company chose, and nobody outside Ideogram has published a long edit test yet.

In practice, run ten rounds of edits on one of your own keyframes or character sheets before you rebuild a pipeline around it, because that is where drift breaks continuity between shots. Ideogram also says open weights (the model files themselves, which you can run on your own machine) are coming soon. The weights for Ideogram 4 came under a non-commercial license, so check the terms before they touch client work.

Source: Ideogram, Runware, Krea, Pika and Luma, 30 Sep 2026.

Provenance — Runware model page (release date 30 Sep 2026); @lumalabsai; @pika_labs; @krea_ai; @angrytomtweets · Status: single-source, reported
Fourteen edits in, the picture usually falls apart. Ideogram says 4.5 holds.
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What makers built in Kling 4.0's first 72 hours (3 creator clips)

Kling 4.0 Flash went live on 28 Sep and three makers went straight at lip-sync and transitions, but all three are tied to Kling, so these are best-case tests.

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Kling 4.0 Flash went live for Kling's Ultra yearly subscribers on 28 Sep, and the full model is due this month. Three makers have already shown what they think the upgrade is for, and each went straight at a different weak spot.

@hq4ai made Spare on early access to the full model, a 21:9 drama built from native 30-second shots. Watch the crying close-up on slide 2. That is the shot where a mouth drifting off its line breaks the whole scene, and tighter lip-sync is the first upgrade the maker names.

ibexdream tested transitions first. The stills come from Krea and the motion from Kling 4.0 Flash, so every cut on slide 3 is a morph. DreamsHorizon handed the new model a tongue-twister for Miss Chiff, a stylized mime character with a long-running series of her own, which is the quickest way to see whether lip-sync keeps pace with fast speech.

One caveat applies: all three are tied to Kling through early access or its creator programs, so read these as best-case tests rather than independent reviews, and run one dialogue close-up and one hard transition on Flash yourself before you price a project around the full model.

Source: Kling, hq4ai, ibexdream and DreamsHorizon on X, 28-29 Sep 2026. Every clip is credited to its maker. If one is yours and you want it removed, message us and it comes down.

Provenance — Kling, hq4ai, ibexdream and DreamsHorizon on X, 28-29 Sep 2026 · Status: single-source, reported
What makers built in Kling 4.0's first 72 hours

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