Kling Motion Control, Runway Act-Two, Higgsfield, Wan 2.2 Animate and Distribea compared with Viggle: what each does well and what it costs, read on October 25, 2026.
Pick by what you want to make. Kling Motion Control puts one person's moves onto a character image at a low monthly price, and Runway Act-Two is built for acting, with expressions and voice. Higgsfield puts several engines behind one credit balance. Wan 2.2 Animate runs on your own graphics card. Distribea Motion Control remakes a whole clip with one or several new people in it.
Distribea publishes this guide and is one of the five tools, so we gave it the same treatment as the others, limits included. Every price and limit below was read on the vendor's own page on October 25, 2026. These prices change often, so check them again before you pay.
Viggle made motion transfer popular with meme remixes. On October 25, 2026, its pricing page listed a $0 plan with a watermark, uploads capped at 1 minute and files kept for 7 days. Pro cost $7.99 a month, marked down from $9.99, with 80 credits, uploads up to 10 minutes and files kept permanently. The page also lists a real-time swap counted in minutes, and says nothing about commercial use, so read Viggle's terms before you put a remix in an ad.
We compared them on five questions.
What stays from the original clip? Some tools keep the scene of the reference video and replace only the person. Others animate your character inside the setting of your own image. Our guide to what motion control AI is shows the difference on real frames.
How many people per clip? A duet needs a tool that replaces each person. Several tools handle one character at a time.
How long can a clip be, and what does one cost? Most tools stop at 30 seconds, while Viggle accepts longer uploads on paid plans. Credits mean little until you turn them into clips, so we did the math for a 10-second clip wherever the vendor gives a per-second price.
What happens when a generation fails? Refund rules differ, and they matter when a fast move breaks the result.
| Tool | Best for | Clip length | People per generation | Entry price on Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kling Motion Control | One person copying a move | 3 to 30 s (version 2.6) | One, the largest on screen | $8.80/month after a $6.99 first month, 660 credits |
| Runway Act-Two | Acting, with expressions and voice | Up to 30 s | Not stated in the guide we read | $15/month, or $12/month billed yearly, 625 credits |
| Higgsfield | Several engines under one balance | Depends on the engine | Depends on the engine | €19/month billed annually, excluding VAT |
| Wan 2.2 Animate | Running the model yourself | Not stated | Not stated | Open weights, Apache 2.0 license |
| Distribea Motion Control | Remaking a whole clip, several people | 4 to 30 s | One photo per person, up to four | €19.99/month billed yearly or €29.99 monthly, VAT included, 3,000 credits |
Kling copies the moves of a reference video onto a character image. Version 2.6 accepts motion references from 3 to 30 seconds, and the result matches the length of the reference. You choose how the character faces: the way the person in the video does, or the way your image does. The second option lets you steer the camera.
The limit is the head count. Kling animates one character per generation, and in a group shot it keeps the person who takes up the most space on screen. Its guide also asks for an image where the whole body and head are visible. And when a complex or fast move makes the output shorter than the reference, the credits used are not refunded.
Motion Control 2.6 costs 5 credits per second in Standard mode and 8 in Professional. Version 3.0 costs 9 and 12. The Standard plan showed $6.99 for the first month, then $8.80 a month for 660 credits. A 10-second clip in 2.6 Standard uses 50 credits, so the plan covers about 13 of them a month. Paid plans list commercial use.
Act-Two works from a driving performance: a video of someone acting out the scene. It transfers the body movement and the facial expressions of that performance to your character, given as an image or a video, and the speech carries over too. You can record the performance in the web app or upload it.
With a character image, a gesture control setting lets the performance drive the hands and the body, and Act-Two adds movement to the background of the image. That makes it strong for dialogue and close-up acting. For a trend remake it is less direct, because the scene comes from your character input and the setting of the original clip does not carry over when you use an image.
Act-Two costs 5 credits per second, with a 3-second minimum, and clips run up to 30 seconds. It requires the Standard plan or higher: $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly, for 625 credits. That is about 12 ten-second clips a month. Output is 1280 by 720 pixels in 16:9, at 24 frames per second.
Higgsfield is a platform that puts many engines behind one credit balance, Kling's Motion Control among them. Its pricing page lists Kling 2.6 Motion Control at about 5 credits per 5 seconds in 720p and about 7 in 1080p, and Kling 3.0 Motion Control at about 7 and 12.
The thing to check is the plan. The comparison table marks several video models as not included on Starter, so look at the row for the engine you want before buying. Prices are shown in euros and exclude VAT, which is calculated at checkout.
Starter costs €19 a month billed annually. Plus costs €47 a month billed annually, or €59 month to month, with 1,200 credits a month.
Wan 2.2 Animate is an open model from Alibaba's Wan team. It has two modes. In animation mode, your character image moves like the person in the input video. In replacement mode, your character takes the place of the person in the input video. The weights are released under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows commercial use, and there is no subscription.
Running it yourself takes work. The model is named 14B, and you run it from the command line with Python tools. The model card gives commands for a single graphics card and for eight cards, without stating a minimum amount of memory. Without a strong card, you need a hosted service that runs it for you, which brings back a per-clip price.
You pick a video from the Motion Control library or upload your own MP4 or MOV of 4 to 30 seconds, then add one photo per person in it, up to four. The same video comes back with each person replaced, moving and framed as in the original. A second mode, Change one thing, swaps a single element such as a product, an outfit or one person, and keeps the rest of the video as it is. For clips where the person turns around, a character sheet with your face from four sides keeps the likeness. Our home page shows ten original clips next to their remakes, if you want to judge the results before paying.
Plans are billed in full from day one, with no trial and no intro offer. A video takes about 15 minutes. One of the two engines stops at 15 seconds. Month to month, Distribea costs more to start than Kling or Runway.
You see the price of each video under the Generate button before it starts, and a video that fails costs nothing. Starter is €19.99 a month billed yearly, or €29.99 month to month, VAT included. Its 3,000 monthly credits pay for up to 6 Motion Control videos. Music, sound effects, footage and images from our royalty-free library come with the plan, along with the other AI tools. All plans are on the pricing page.
The choice changes when you want to put yourself in a particular trend or film scene and keep its setting. Then you need a tool that keeps the scene of the reference, and that is where Distribea sits, with one photo per person and a stock media library in the same plan. For long meme remixes, Viggle is the one to look at, since its paid plans accept uploads up to 10 minutes.
Distribea does, with one photo per person, up to four. Kling sticks to a single character, the biggest one in the frame. We found no clear statement on this in the pages we read for the other tools. Our guide to swapping a character in a video explains how to prepare each photo.
Wan 2.2 Animate has open weights, so you only pay for the hardware or the hosted service that runs it. Viggle and Runway have $0 plans: Viggle's adds a watermark, and Runway's gives 125 credits once, while Act-Two itself needs the Standard plan.
Up to 30 seconds on Kling 2.6, Runway Act-Two and Distribea. Viggle accepts uploads up to 10 minutes on paid plans.
Runway Act-Two carries the speech of the driving performance. Distribea gives the original sound back only when the clip runs 5 to 15 seconds.
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