Michael Aubry

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Background removal used to be the least interesting problem in image tooling. You ran an image through a segmentation model, you got a mask back, and if the subject had hair or fur or a chain-link fence behind it, you accepted the grey halo and moved on. That tolerance disappeared the moment product photos, thumbnails, and ad creative started getting generated in the hundreds per day. At that volume, a mask that is 94 percent right is not a small quality issue, it is a queue of manual touch-ups nobody has time for.

BiRefNet is the model that changed the arithmetic. It came out of the high-resolution dichotomous segmentation research line, and the thing it does better than its predecessors is edge fidelity: individual hair strands, glass, mesh, and thin fabric survive the cut instead of being averaged into a soft grey rim. Practitioners comparing it against older pipelines report that it keeps fine strands that [older background removal workflows](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-remove-backgrounds-from-images-with-ai) lose outright, which is the difference between a batch you can ship and a batch you have to review.

This guide covers which variant to pick, what a working request looks like, how to wire it into a batch pipeline, and where the model still gets things wrong. It assumes the output has to be good enough to composite without a human checking every frame.

## What BiRefNet does differently

BiRefNet uses a bilateral reference design. One path looks at the image at reduced resolution to work out what the subject is; a second keeps high-resolution source detail available so the boundary can be reconstructed sharply. Older models like U2Net compress hard and then upsample the mask, which is exactly why thin structures dissolve. If you have previously fought with halos while trying to [make image backgrounds transparent](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-make-image-backgrounds-transparent-with-ai), that upsampling step is usually the culprit.

So BiRefNet earns its extra compute on three categories: anything with hair or fur, anything transparent such as glass or plastic packaging, and anything with repeating thin structure such as netting, wicker, or lace. On a hard silhouette against a plain sweep backdrop, older models are close enough and cheaper. Knowing which bucket an image falls into is most of the optimization.

![Single feather resting on a black lightbox](https://media.basedlabs.ai/8dfcc151-6b5d-4b0d-a8e9-377a807553f6.png)

## Picking a variant before you pick an endpoint

BiRefNet ships as a family, not a single checkpoint, and choosing wrong is the most common reason people conclude the model is overrated, in the same way that picking the wrong tool from a [roundup of AI image editors](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-image-editors-compared-2026) leaves you blaming the category rather than the choice. The general use light model is the default and handles most catalog work. The heavy variant trades latency for accuracy on cluttered scenes. There is a portrait checkpoint tuned for faces and hair, a matting checkpoint trained for soft alpha rather than hard binary masks, and a dynamic-resolution variant covering roughly 256 by 256 up to 2304 by 2304 for inputs whose size you do not control.

The distinction that matters most is matting versus segmentation. Segmentation gives you a decision per pixel, subject or not subject. Matting gives you a continuous alpha value, which is what you need for hair, smoke, motion blur, and semi-transparent material. If you are compositing onto varied backgrounds, matting output holds up; binary masks show their seams. Teams building [product photography pipelines](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-create-product-photos-with-ai-for-ecommerce) usually end up running matting for apparel and hard segmentation for boxed goods.

Resolution is the other axis. The high-resolution checkpoints were trained around 2048 by 2048 and the 2K lite variant accepts inputs near 2560 by 1440, which means you can feed a real product photo without downscaling first. Downscaling before segmentation and upscaling the mask afterward is the single most common self-inflicted quality loss in these pipelines.

## Making your first call

The fastest hosted path is fal, which exposes BiRefNet as a straightforward image-to-image endpoint, no local GPU and no [hosted node-graph deployment](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/hosted-comfyui-alternative-with-api) required. Install the client, set your key in the environment, and submit an image URL:

```javascript
import { fal } from "@fal-ai/client";

const result = await fal.subscribe("fal-ai/birefnet/v2", {
  input: {
    image_url: "https://example.com/product-01.jpg",
    model: "General Use (Heavy)",
    output_mask: true
  },
  logs: true
});

console.log(result.data.image.url);
```

Three things in that snippet are worth calling out. The model field is where you select the variant discussed above, so it is not a detail you set once and forget. The `output_mask` flag returns the alpha mask alongside the cut image, which you want if any downstream step needs to feather, erode, or recomposite. And `subscribe` blocks until the job finishes, which is fine for a script and wrong for a web request; production code should submit to the queue and take a webhook instead. The same pattern applies to any hosted generation endpoint, including the ones covered in our walkthrough of [running batch image generation via API](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-run-batch-image-generation-via-api).

You can also self-host. The weights are published openly and the model runs on a single consumer GPU at modest resolution. The tradeoff is the usual one: you own the cold starts, the batching, and the queue.

## Wiring it into a pipeline

A single call is easy. The interesting work is everything around it: fetching source images, routing each one to the right variant, retrying failures, storing both the cut image and its mask, and handing the result to whatever composites next. That glue is the part that rots, which is why a lot of teams run this stage on a visual pipeline tool instead. Node-based builders such as [wireflow.ai](https://www.wireflow.ai/birefnet-api) let you drop a BiRefNet node between an input source and a compositing step and expose the whole chain as a single API call, which keeps the routing logic in one visible place rather than scattered across a worker.

Whichever way you build it, a few things belong in the design from day one. Store the mask, not just the composited PNG, because you will want to redo the composite later without paying for inference again. Key your cache on a hash of the source bytes plus the variant name, since the same image run through two checkpoints is two different results. Set a per-day spend ceiling before you turn on the batch loop; the failure mode people report is not an expensive image, it is a retry loop discovering an unbounded budget, which is the whole argument for [generation APIs with spend limits](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ai-generation-api-with-spend-limits).

![Scissors on a cutting mat beside paper scraps](https://media.basedlabs.ai/dc62bf34-e2e6-4e2b-836f-65830f74bc74.png)

Order of operations matters more than people expect. Remove the background before you upscale, not after: upscaling first bakes the old background's color fringe into the edge pixels, and the model then has to cut through an artifact it did not create. The sequence in our guide to [upscaling images via API](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-upscale-images-with-clarityai-via-api) applies here too, segment then enlarge then sharpen.

## Where BiRefNet still gets it wrong

It is not solved. Reflective surfaces confuse it: a chrome kettle that mirrors the room often keeps a slice of the reflected background inside the mask, because the model cannot know the reflection is not part of the object. Contact shadows under a product are the second failure, where the model has to guess whether the shadow is subject or scene. That is a judgment call, not a segmentation error, so no checkpoint gets it right for every use case.

The third category is multi-object scenes with ambiguous intent. Given a person holding a bag, the model returns both, and if you wanted only the bag you need a prompt-driven segmentation model instead. The mitigation is a confidence gate: compute the mask's edge entropy or simply the count of partially transparent pixels, and route anything above your threshold to human review. Roughly five percent of a mixed catalog will trip that gate, which is a manageable queue and far better than reviewing everything. Teams that also need [object removal rather than background removal](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-object-removers-in-2026-5-tools-that-actually-clean-up-photos-well) should treat that as a separate model entirely, not a flag on this one.

## Cost, latency, and caching

Per-image inference on a hosted endpoint is cheap enough that it will not be the line item you notice, but latency will shape your architecture. Light variants return in around a second at moderate resolution; heavy and high-resolution variants take several. Pick your variant per surface rather than per project: light for anything a user is waiting on, heavy for anything queued.

Cache aggressively and cache the mask. Background removal is deterministic enough that re-running the same source image is pure waste, and masks are small. If you later change background color, crop, or output format, you recomposite from the stored mask in milliseconds. The same reasoning shows up in most production image stacks, including the [SaaS generation pipelines](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ai-generation-api-for-saas-apps) where inference cost per tenant is the number that decides margin.

## FAQ

**Is BiRefNet free to use?**
The weights are released openly, so self-hosting has no per-image fee beyond compute; hosted endpoints charge per call. Check the licence before commercial deployment, since research-origin models sometimes carry restrictions a wrapper API does not surface. Our [survey of AI APIs for developers](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-api-for-developers) covers how providers differ here.

**Which variant should I default to?**
General use light. Move to heavy only when your review queue tells you the light model is missing edges on your specific content, and move to the matting checkpoint when you are compositing hair or transparent material onto varied backgrounds.

**Can it output a transparent PNG directly?**
Yes, hosted endpoints return a cut image with an alpha channel. Request the separate mask as well if any later step needs to adjust the edge, because recovering a clean mask from a composited PNG is lossy. If your end goal is a new backdrop rather than transparency, [swapping photo backgrounds](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-change-photo-backgrounds-with-ai-in-2026) starts from the same mask.

**How does it compare to rembg?**
rembg is a wrapper around several older checkpoints, U2Net most commonly, and it is faster and lighter. On hard silhouettes the difference is small. On hair, fur, and mesh, BiRefNet keeps detail that U2Net-class models average away, which is the entire reason to pay the extra compute.

**Does it handle batches?**
Not natively in a single call on most hosted endpoints. You submit each image to the queue and collect results by webhook. Concurrency is yours to manage, and a queue with bounded workers beats firing hundreds of parallel requests, the same shape described in our notes on [setting up batch image generation](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-set-up-batch-image-generation-via-api).

**What resolution should I send?**
Send the native resolution if it is within the variant's trained range. The high-resolution checkpoints handle roughly 2048 by 2048 and the dynamic variant covers a wide band, so pre-downscaling usually costs you edge quality for no benefit.

**Can I use it on video frames?**
Frame by frame, yes, and the quality per frame is good. Temporal stability is the problem: independently segmented frames flicker at the edges. You need a smoothing pass across frames or a video-native matting model if the result has to hold up in motion, which is worth budgeting for alongside whatever [video generation endpoint](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/veo-3-1-video-api-examples-and-pricing) produced the footage.

## Wrapping up

BiRefNet is the sensible default for programmatic background removal right now, for one concrete reason: it preserves edges that older segmentation models destroy, at resolutions you actually shoot at. Adopting it is less about the model call than the surrounding decisions, which variant per surface, matting versus binary, cache on the mask, segment before upscale, and a confidence gate so the hard five percent reaches a human.

If you want to see the call shape and its parameters before writing any code, the endpoint documentation at [wireflow.ai/birefnet-api](https://www.wireflow.ai/birefnet-api) lays out the inputs and outputs, and the same pipeline thinking carries over to adjacent tasks like [generating custom backgrounds for product photos](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-generate-custom-backgrounds-with-ai-for-product-photos) once you have the subject cleanly isolated.

How to Remove Backgrounds With the BiRefNet API

Google's Veo 3 arrived with one claim that separated it from every other text-to-video model on the market: it generates sound in the same pass as the picture. Not a soundtrack stitched on afterward, not a library sample matched to the scene, but dialogue, footsteps, room tone and music produced by the same model that drew the frames. A year of iteration later, the 3.1 revision has sanded down most of the rough edges, and the question has shifted from "does this work" to "is this the model you should actually be building on."

This review is written from the position most readers are in: you have seen the demo reels, you suspect they were cherry-picked, and you want to know what the model does on an average prompt and which door into Veo you should walk through. The short version is that Veo 3 is the strongest general-purpose clip generator available to consumers right now, that its audio is ahead of the field in a way [our earlier look at native audio generation](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/why-native-audio-is-the-next-leap-for-ai-video) predicted, and that its eight-second ceiling is still the biggest constraint on what you can make with it.

It is worth being clear about what Veo 3 is not. It is not an editor, it is not a storyboard tool, and on its own it will not get you a finished piece of content. Anyone assembling more than a single clip ends up building a pipeline around it, the same [script-to-upload sequence](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/create-ai-animated-youtube-videos-script-to-upload) that every generated video project eventually needs.

## What Veo 3 Does Well

The audio is the headline and it deserves to be. Ask for a rainy street and you get rain hitting different surfaces at different pitches, tyres on wet asphalt, and a distant car horn that sits behind the mix rather than on top of it. Ask for two people talking and you get lip movement that lines up with the words, which was the specific failure mode that made earlier models unusable for anything with a face in it.

Prompt adherence is the second real strength. Camera language works: "slow dolly in", "handheld", "shot on 35mm", "golden hour backlight" all produce recognisably different results rather than the same generic footage with a filter. Lighting instructions land. Pacing instructions mostly land. If you have spent any time building a repeatable prompt vocabulary, the techniques in [this hands-on guide to shaping AI video output](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/master-the-prompt-a-hands-on-guide-to-customizing-your-ai-video-output) transfer to Veo almost directly.

![Cinematic film reel resting on a lit editing desk](https://media.basedlabs.ai/00b92990-e9cb-4abd-88ad-1c5de35cee66.png)

Temporal stability is the quiet improvement. Flicker, texture crawl and the sudden style drift that plagued 2024-era models are largely gone in 3.1. Faces hold their identity across a clip, clothing keeps its pattern, and backgrounds stop rearranging themselves when the camera moves. Complex hand motion still breaks, but the failure rate on a normal prompt is low enough that you are no longer generating ten clips to get one usable one.

Reference image support in 3.1 is the feature most people underuse. You can supply multiple stills and have the model carry a character, a product or a location across separate generations, which is the only practical route to a sequence that looks like it belongs together. The same problem shows up in every multi-clip project and is covered in more depth in our piece on [keeping characters consistent across shots](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/multi-shot-storytelling-ai-video-consistency).

## Where Veo 3 Falls Short

Eight seconds. That is the constraint everything else bends around. Flow's scene extension lets you chain generations into something longer, but each extension is a new roll of the dice and the seams are visible if you look for them. Anything narrative means generating shots separately and cutting them together in a real editor, which is a workflow decision rather than a model feature.

Text rendering inside the frame is still unreliable. Signage, product labels and on-screen UI come out as plausible-looking gibberish more often than not, so anything with legible words needs to be composited in afterward. Hands remain the second weak spot, particularly when they manipulate small objects. Crowds degrade at the edges. None of this is unique to Veo, and the same limits show up across the field in [our roundup of free video generators](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/top-10-free-ai-video-generators-you-can-use-online-in-2026), but it is worth knowing before you promise a client a hand-held product close-up.

Content restrictions are tighter than most competitors. Real public figures are refused. Recognisable brands and trademarks are refused or quietly altered. Anything that reads as violent or political tends to bounce. For commercial work this is mostly fine and occasionally infuriating, especially when a refusal fires on a prompt that is obviously benign.

Every output also carries SynthID, Google's invisible pixel-level watermark, which survives compression, cropping and re-encoding. There is no visible mark on the frame, so this is not a watermark in the sense that would concern most creators, and it is a different situation from the visible branding discussed in [our guide to watermark-free video tools](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-video-generators-without-watermarks-in-2026). It does mean the provenance of your clip is detectable indefinitely.

![Rain-soaked city street under a single streetlight at night](https://media.basedlabs.ai/91e9c4b1-d2f8-4c1a-ab1b-9b30cbdd4271.png)

## How to Access Veo 3 as a Creator

There are three consumer doors, and picking the wrong one is the most common mistake we see. Each one bills differently, which matters more than the interface does when you start [producing animated video at any volume](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-make-animated-videos-with-ai-for-youtube).

- **Gemini app** - The simplest route. A Google AI Plus subscription at $7.99 a month gives limited generation, AI Pro at $19.99 unlocks Veo 3.1 Fast, and AI Ultra at $249.99 gives the highest limits and the full-quality model. Good for one-off clips, bad for volume.
- **Flow** - Google's filmmaking front end, built for sequencing shots, extending scenes and managing references. This is where serious creative work happens. Flow currently offers 50 free credits a day to non-subscribers, which is enough to evaluate the model properly before paying.
- **Whisk** - The experimental image-to-video surface. Fast, loose, and best for turning a still you already like into a short moving clip.

Flow is the one worth learning. The credit system is separate from API billing and does not convert between the two, so a Pro subscription buys you creative allowance and nothing else. If you are comparing that allowance against what other platforms give you at the same price, [the current crop of Runway alternatives](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-runway-alternatives-for-ai-video-generation-2026) is the useful reference point.

## How to Access Veo 3 as a Developer

The developer route is the Gemini API or Vertex AI, both billed per successful output second rather than per clip. Pricing as of mid-2026 runs roughly $0.05 per second for Veo 3.1 Lite at 720p, $0.10 for Fast, and $0.40 for Standard at 720p or 1080p. An eight-second Fast clip with audio at 1080p lands near $0.96; the same clip at 4K Standard is closer to $4.80. The setup steps, auth and request shape are covered end to end in [our walkthrough of accessing Veo through the API](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-access-google-veo-via-api).

In practice nobody calls the endpoint in isolation. A real pipeline needs prompt assembly, reference image handling, a queue for the long-running generation job, retries on refusal, and somewhere to put the finished asset. Teams that do not want to hand-roll that layer usually run Veo as one node inside a [multi-model AI workflow tool](https://www.wireflow.ai/veo-3) alongside an image model for reference stills and an upscaler for the final pass, which also makes it trivial to swap models when a cheaper one is good enough for a given shot.

Budget control matters more than people expect at per-second billing, because a single misconfigured batch can burn a month of spend in an afternoon. The patterns in [our guide to spend limits on generation APIs](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ai-generation-api-with-spend-limits) apply directly here. For a broader view of how the video endpoints compare on cost and ergonomics, [the programmatic video platform guide](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/complete-guide-programmatic-video-generation-platforms) covers the field.

![Sound mixing console lit by a single warm lamp](https://media.basedlabs.ai/68ad68a3-9993-4f69-88f9-e7bd170cb376.png)

## How It Compares

Veo 3 leads on audio and on prompt obedience. It does not lead on clip length, on price, or on permissiveness. Kling produces longer takes and is cheaper per second, and the API path is documented in [our Kling integration piece](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-generate-videos-with-kling-ai-via-api). Seedance has closed much of the audio gap, as covered in [our look at its native audio release](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/seedance-2-1-native-audio). Runway remains stronger for editorial control over an existing shot.

The honest recommendation is that Veo 3 is the default for anything where sound carries the clip, dialogue especially, and that you should keep a second model on hand for long takes and for prompts Veo will refuse. Running two models behind one interface is standard practice now, and [the API-accessible workflow platforms](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ai-workflow-platforms-with-api-compared-2026) exist largely because of it.

## FAQ

**Is Veo 3 free?**
Not really. Flow gives non-subscribers 50 credits a day, which is enough for evaluation but not for production. Everything beyond that requires a Google AI subscription or API billing, so genuinely free options live in [a different bracket of tools](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ai-video-generator-no-watermark).

**How long can a Veo 3 clip be?**
Eight seconds per generation. Flow's scene extension chains generations together for longer sequences, though quality drifts across the joins. Longer projects are assembled from separate shots, which is the same approach used by most [social video pipelines](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-tools-for-social-media-video-creation-2026).

**Does Veo 3 generate sound automatically?**
Yes. Dialogue, effects, ambience and music are produced in the same pass as the picture. You can steer it with audio direction in the prompt, and you can ask for silence.

**What resolution does it output?**
720p and 1080p on the standard tiers, with 4K available on Veo 3.1 Standard. Upscaling is built in rather than a separate step, unlike most [node-based generation setups](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/node-based-image-generation).

**Can I use Veo 3 output commercially?**
Yes on paid tiers, subject to Google's usage policy. The SynthID watermark stays embedded regardless of tier, so the output is always identifiable as AI-generated.

**Is Veo 3 available everywhere?**
Availability varies by region and by plan, and some countries get the Gemini app route before Flow. The API through Vertex AI is the most widely available path. If your region is restricted, [the wider field of API-accessible video models](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/veo-3-1-video-api-examples-and-pricing) is worth checking.

**Do Flow credits work with the API?**
No. Flow credits and Gemini API billing are separate ledgers. Subscription allowance does not convert into API seconds and API spend does not top up Flow.

## Verdict

Veo 3 is the model to reach for when the clip needs to sound like something. The audio quality is a genuine lead over the field, prompt adherence is good enough to plan around, and 3.1 fixed most of the stability complaints from the first release. The eight-second ceiling, the text rendering, and the content refusals are all real, and none of them are going away this quarter, which is why [the REST pipeline patterns](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-build-ai-pipelines-with-rest-apis) matter as much as the model choice.

If you generate occasionally, Flow on the AI Pro plan is the right entry point and costs less than one freelance edit. If you generate at volume, the API is cheaper per clip but only once you have wrapped it in something that handles queuing and retries, which is why most teams end up running it inside an [AI workflow automation platform](https://www.wireflow.ai/veo-3) rather than calling it directly. Either way, treat Veo as one strong component in a pipeline rather than a finished product, and it will hold up.

Google Veo 3 Review: Features, Limits, and How to Access It

Every few months someone publishes a ranked list of AI video tools for Amazon sellers, and every few months the ranking is wrong for most of the people reading it. Not because the tools are bad, but because the tool is rarely the constraint. The constraint is the product photo you feed it, the spec sheet Amazon enforces at upload, and how many SKUs you have to get through before the end of the quarter.

That last number is the one that changes the answer. A seller with four hero products and a decent photographer has almost no reason to use AI video at all. A seller with 180 variants across three brands has no realistic alternative. Between those two extremes sits everyone actually searching for this, and the honest answer is that the best AI tool for Amazon listing videos in 2026 is whichever one survives your specific bottleneck. This piece is about identifying that bottleneck first, then matching a tool to it, which is the reverse of how most of these roundups are written. If you have not yet solved the input side, [the product photography problem comes first](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-create-product-photos-with-ai-for-ecommerce) and no video model will paper over it.

We tested against the same brief throughout: one clean product still, a 20 to 30 second listing video, no watermark, exported at a resolution Amazon will accept without a re-encode. Anything that could not clear that bar was dropped, including every tier that [stamps an export with a watermark](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ai-video-generator-no-watermark), because Amazon rejects those on sight.

## Start With the Spec Sheet, Not the Model

Amazon's requirements are narrow enough that they disqualify a surprising number of AI exports before quality even enters the conversation. Detail page videos accept 1280x720, 1920x1080, or 3840x2160, in 16:9, as MP4 or MOV with H.264 or H.265, at 1 Mbps or higher, between 6 and 45 seconds, under 500 MB. A+ content video modules run 15 to 60 seconds and need Brand Registry. Frame rate must land on one of the standard broadcast values, so a tool that exports at 60 fps needs a conversion step you now own.

Two things trip sellers up repeatedly. The first is watermarks: free tiers stamp them, and Amazon rejects them, which makes most "free AI video generator" recommendations useless for this specific job. Anyone evaluating on price should read the [watermark landscape for 2026](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-video-generators-without-watermarks-in-2026) before committing to a plan, because the paid tier is the only tier that matters here.

The second is aspect ratio. A large share of AI video tooling is built for [TikTok and Reels first](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-make-viral-tiktok-videos-with-ai), so 9:16 is the default and 16:9 is an afterthought. Generating vertical and cropping to 16:9 costs you the top and bottom of the frame, which is usually where the product was. Check the native export ratio before you check anything else.

![Product boxes arranged under a single directional studio light](https://media.basedlabs.ai/6b89a7da-bc84-4f02-809a-570a73f0941a.png)

## The Real Bottleneck Is Product Fidelity

Video models hallucinate. For cinematic footage that is a feature. For a listing video it is a compliance risk. If the model quietly changes your bottle cap from matte black to gloss, adds a second seam to a fabric strap, or renders a label with letterforms that are almost but not quite your brand, you have published a video that misrepresents the item.

This is why image-to-video beats text-to-video for listings by a wide margin. Starting from your real product still anchors the geometry and the colorway, and the model is only asked to move the camera and the light rather than invent the object. The technique is worth understanding properly, and [the mechanics of image-to-video conditioning](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-turn-any-image-into-a-video-with-ai) explain why a strong first frame does most of the work.

The practical consequence is that your input still is the single most important asset in the pipeline. A flat, badly lit catalog photo produces a flat, badly lit video no matter which model consumes it. Sellers who fix their stills first, whether by reshooting or by [rebuilding backgrounds around the existing product cutout](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-generate-custom-backgrounds-with-ai-for-product-photos), get noticeably better video output from the same tool on the same settings.

Motion is the other half. Keep it short and physical: a slow orbit, a rack focus onto the texture, a hand entering frame to demonstrate scale. Ambitious prompts produce ambitious failures, and [prompt discipline for video output](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/master-the-prompt-a-hands-on-guide-to-customizing-your-ai-video-output) matters more than model choice once you are past the obvious quality floor.

## Six Tools Worth Testing, Grouped by the Job They Do

These are not ranked. They are sorted by the situation they fit, because the situations do not overlap much.

### PixVerse

<a href="https://pixverse.ai" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">PixVerse</a> has leaned hard into ecommerce with its Ad Master templates, which is unusual for a general video model. It is the closest thing to a default if you want product-ad structure handed to you rather than assembled by hand, and it holds 16:9 without a fight. Under the templates it is doing ordinary [still-to-motion conversion](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-turn-any-image-into-a-video-with-ai), so the quality ceiling is set by your input photo rather than the preset.

![PixVerse homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tool-for-amazon-listing-videos-in-2026/tool-pixverse.webp)

- **Strength**: templated product-ad flows, ecommerce-aware presets
- **Weakness**: templates start to look like templates across a large catalog
- **Best for**: sellers who want a listing video today without building a process

### Creatify

<a href="https://creatify.ai" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Creatify</a> takes a product URL and builds an ad from it, which is a genuinely different entry point. For Amazon specifically the output skews toward paid social rather than the detail page, so treat it as an ad tool that can also produce listing assets rather than the other way around. If ad creative is the actual goal, the wider [ad generator field](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-ad-generators-for-social-media-in-2026) is worth surveying before you settle.

![Creatify homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tool-for-amazon-listing-videos-in-2026/tool-creatify.webp)

- **Strength**: URL-to-video ingestion, fast ad variants
- **Weakness**: house style leans ad-native, not detail-page-native
- **Best for**: sellers running Sponsored Brands video alongside listings

### Runway

<a href="https://runwayml.com" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Runway</a> remains the option for people who care about how the shot looks. Camera control is the best in the group and the motion is the least plasticky. It is also the least automated, which means it rewards someone who knows what a good product shot looks like and punishes everyone else. Sellers who find the per-clip cost hard to justify at catalog scale usually end up surveying [the cheaper alternatives in the same tier](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-runway-alternatives-for-ai-video-generation-2026).

![Runway homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tool-for-amazon-listing-videos-in-2026/tool-runway.webp)

- **Strength**: cinematic control, credible lighting and camera moves
- **Weakness**: no ecommerce scaffolding, slower per asset
- **Best for**: hero SKUs where the video is doing real persuasion work

### HeyGen

<a href="https://www.heygen.com" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">HeyGen</a> solves a different problem: the talking presenter. For products that need explanation rather than display, supplements, tools, anything with a "how do I use this" objection, an avatar segment converts better than another orbit around the box. Pair it with a real voice track if you can, since synthetic delivery is the part viewers notice first and [voiceover quality is its own discipline](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-create-ai-voiceovers-for-youtube-videos).

![HeyGen homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tool-for-amazon-listing-videos-in-2026/tool-heygen.webp)

- **Strength**: avatar presenters, multi-language variants of one script
- **Weakness**: avatars still read as avatars to attentive viewers
- **Best for**: products where the listing has to teach, not just show

### Kling

<a href="https://klingai.com" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Kling</a> is the value pick on raw image-to-video quality per credit, and its physics on cloth, liquid, and hair are better than the price suggests. The interface is the weak point and batch work is awkward. [Prompt structure for Kling](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/kling-3-prompts-guide) differs enough from the others that copying prompts across tools will disappoint you.

![Kling homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tool-for-amazon-listing-videos-in-2026/tool-kling.webp)

- **Strength**: strong image-to-video fidelity, competitive credit pricing
- **Weakness**: batch handling and asset management are thin
- **Best for**: soft goods, apparel, anything where material behavior sells

### Wireflow

Wireflow is the outlier in this list because it is not a video model. It is a node canvas that chains models together, so a listing video becomes a graph: still in, background clean-up, image-to-video, upscale, audio, export. That is overkill for one product and close to necessary at 80. It sits in the same category as the other [headless workflow platforms](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-headless-ai-workflow-platforms-in-2026) that emerged over the past year, with a canvas instead of a config file.

![Node canvas connecting an image generation step to a video step](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tool-for-amazon-listing-videos-in-2026/tool-wireflow.webp)

- **Strength**: multi-model chaining, repeatable across a catalog
- **Weakness**: you have to build the graph before you get anything
- **Best for**: catalogs large enough that per-SKU manual work has stopped scaling

## A Sequence That Survives Forty SKUs

Single-video advice falls apart at volume, and volume is where most Amazon sellers actually live. The pattern that holds up is to stop treating each listing video as a creative project and start treating it as a pipeline with fixed stages: normalize the still, generate 3 to 5 second motion beats, assemble, add audio, export to spec. Each stage gets one setting that you change per SKU and nothing else. Teams that get this working tend to land on a [visual AI workflow builder](https://www.wireflow.ai/blog/best-ai-tool-for-amazon-listing-videos-in-2026) rather than a single generator, because the assembly and export stages are where the manual hours actually go.

The beat structure matters more than any individual clip. Three to five short segments outperform one long generation: product reveal, a detail or texture push, a scale or in-use shot, then the packaging or bundle. Generating in beats also means a bad clip costs you four seconds of regeneration instead of thirty, and the [multi-shot approach to AI video](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/seedance-2-1-multi-shot-storytelling) is now well enough understood that stitching no longer looks stitched.

Audio is the cheapest win left. Most listing videos autoplay muted, so on-screen text carries the message, but the sellers who add a light bed and a few sound effects see the unmuted watch-through hold longer. Keep the first two seconds visually loud, since [social-first video habits](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-tools-for-social-media-video-creation-2026) have trained shoppers to leave fast.

![A ceramic mug rotating on a turntable under one directional light](https://media.basedlabs.ai/7402edd0-45dc-42d8-8ac1-c0589364ce79.png)

## Where AI Listing Videos Still Fail

Text is the first failure mode. Video models still render packaging copy as approximate letterforms, which on a supplement label or an ingredient panel is a real problem rather than a cosmetic one. The fix is to keep generated motion away from any surface with readable text and overlay your own typography in the edit.

Hands are the second. Scale demonstrations are the most valuable shot in a listing video and the hardest to generate cleanly, and viewers spot a wrong finger count instantly. Sellers who care about this shoot a plate of a real hand and composite it, which is also roughly the argument made in the [UGC generator comparisons](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ugcvideoai-vs-arcadsai-which-ai-ugc-video-generator-actually-delivers) where the same problem shows up at scale.

Third is drift across a catalog. When each SKU is generated independently with slightly different prompts, the brand looks incoherent in aggregate even though each video passes on its own. Locking a prompt template and a single motion vocabulary per brand fixes it, which is another argument for treating this as [a programmatic pipeline](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/complete-guide-programmatic-video-generation-platforms) rather than a series of one-offs.

## FAQ

**Does Amazon allow AI generated listing videos?**
Yes. Amazon has no policy against AI generated video as such, but it does enforce accuracy: the video must represent the actual product, with no watermarks, competitor references, pricing claims, or contact details. The risk with generative video is specifically that a model alters the product without you noticing.

**What is the cheapest way to make a listing video that Amazon will accept?**
Take one clean product still, run it through an image-to-video model on a paid tier for watermark-free export, generate three short beats, and assemble them to 20 to 30 seconds at 1920x1080. Entry plans on most of the tools above run roughly $15 to $30 a month, which is well under a single product shoot. The [ecommerce product image guides](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/generate-ai-product-images-ecommerce-store-guide) cover getting the input still right on the same budget.

**How long should an Amazon listing video be?**
Amazon accepts 6 to 45 seconds on detail pages and recommends staying at or under 30. In practice 20 to 30 seconds is the working range, with the product visible inside the first two seconds because most views start muted and end early.

**Is image-to-video better than text-to-video for products?**
For listings, consistently yes. Text-to-video invents the object, image-to-video moves the one you supplied. Since the object in question is a real SKU that a customer will receive, anchoring to a real photograph is the only approach that reliably keeps the colorway, proportions, and materials correct. Most current models expose this as a first-frame input, and [conditioning a generation on a reference frame](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-generate-videos-with-kling-ai-via-api) is a documented parameter rather than a trick.

**Can one tool handle the whole listing video end to end?**
Rarely, once you count the input still, the motion, the audio, and the export. Most sellers end up with two or three tools, or a chained setup that calls several models in sequence, which is why [marketing video production](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-create-marketing-videos-with-ai-in-2026) has been converging on orchestration rather than single-app workflows.

**Do listing videos actually move conversion?**
Amazon's own merchandising guidance and most seller-side testing point the same direction, with the effect strongest on products that are hard to judge from stills: anything where size, texture, or assembly is the objection. For a commodity item with three clear photos, and especially one with [strong still photography](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-generate-ai-product-images-for-your-online-store) already in place, the lift is smaller and the video is mostly defensive.

**What resolution should I export?**
1920x1080 is the practical default. 4K is accepted but the file size ceiling of 500 MB makes it awkward for longer cuts, and Amazon's player does not reward it enough to justify the trouble on most listings.

## The Short Version

There is no single best AI tool for Amazon listing videos in 2026, and any article that names one without asking about your catalog size is selling something. If you have a handful of products and want output today, a template-driven ecommerce tool gets you there, though the [free-tier options](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/top-10-free-ai-video-generators-you-can-use-online-in-2026) will not, because of the watermark rule. If the video is doing real persuasion on a hero SKU, a cinematic model with proper camera control is worth the extra hours. If you are staring at a hundred variants, the tool question stops mattering and the pipeline question takes over.

What has genuinely changed this year is that the assembly layer got good. Chaining an image model into a video model into an export step used to be a scripting job, and now it is a canvas you can draw, whether that is [the Wireflow platform](https://www.wireflow.ai/image-to-video-ai) or one of the other orchestration tools that arrived in its wake. Start with your still, respect the spec sheet, keep the motion boring and physical, and the tool choice mostly takes care of itself.

Best AI Tool for Amazon Listing Videos in 2026: What Actually Decides It

Every roundup of AI video tools for ecommerce reads the same way: ten products, one ranking, one winner. That ordering is useless the moment you have a real catalog, because a store with 300 SKUs is not running one job. It is running four or five of them at once, and the tool that wins at spokesperson ads is usually mediocre at making a still product photo move convincingly.

So we sorted this list by job instead of by score. Each section covers one stage of a product video pipeline, names the tools that are genuinely good at that stage in 2026, and says where each one falls down. If you already know which stage is your bottleneck, skip to it. Teams coming from a still-image workflow will get more out of reading our [guide to generating AI product images for an online store](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/generate-ai-product-images-ecommerce-store-guide) first, since almost every video tool below takes those images as input.

One framing note before the list. The interesting constraint in 2026 is no longer output quality. Generation models cleared the bar for ecommerce b-roll sometime last year, and the current crop of [AI video generators compared head to head](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-video-generators-compared-2026) are close enough on raw fidelity that the difference rarely shows up in a 6-second Reel. The constraint is throughput: how many SKUs you can push through per week without a human touching each one.

## Why ranked lists keep failing ecommerce teams

A ranked list assumes a single evaluation axis. Product video has at least three that trade against each other, and picking a tool without naming which axis you care about is how teams end up with an expensive subscription and eleven finished videos.

The first axis is fidelity to the actual product. A generative model that invents a plausible sneaker is worthless when the customer receives a different sneaker. The second is cost per finished asset at catalog scale, which is where per-seat pricing quietly kills you. The third is placement fit, because a video that works on a product detail page is the wrong aspect ratio, length, and pacing for a paid social feed. Most tools optimize hard for one axis and treat the other two as someone else's problem, which is the same pattern we ran into writing up [how to create marketing videos with AI](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-create-marketing-videos-with-ai-in-2026).

There is also a fourth thing nobody advertises, which is consistency across a series. If SKU 41 and SKU 42 come out looking like they were shot by different studios, your grid looks broken even when each individual clip is fine. Our writeup on [multi-shot consistency in AI video](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/multi-shot-storytelling-ai-video-consistency) covers why that failure mode is structural rather than a prompting mistake.

## Job one: turning a product page into a spokesperson ad

This is the highest-volume job for most DTC brands. You have a URL, a few product photos, and a claim. You need a person on camera saying the claim over the product, in vertical, in about fifteen seconds, in nine variants. It is the closest thing ecommerce has to a solved problem, and the tools have converged on roughly the shape described in our [roundup of AI product video generators](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/top-7-ai-product-video-generators-of-2025).

![Creatify homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tools-for-ecommerce-product-videos-in-2026/tool-creatify.webp)

- **<a href="https://www.creatify.ai/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Creatify</a>** · **Strength**: paste a product URL, get a scripted avatar ad with hooks and captions already assembled · **Weakness**: the avatar library is recognizable, so heavy users start looking like each other · **Best for**: paid social testing where variant count beats polish
- **<a href="https://www.heygen.com/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">HeyGen</a>** · **Strength**: the best avatar realism and multilingual dubbing in this category, plus a usable API · **Weakness**: it is a presenter tool, not a product tool, so the product itself is composited rather than filmed · **Best for**: brands that need one spokesperson across dozens of markets

![HeyGen homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tools-for-ecommerce-product-videos-in-2026/tool-heygen.webp)

The honest limitation of both is that synthetic spokesperson ads have a shorter creative half-life than they did in 2024. Audiences have learned the format. They still convert, but the winning variants burn out in weeks rather than months, which is an argument for treating this job as a volume problem rather than a craft problem. If avatar quality is the deciding factor for you, the comparison of [Synthesia alternatives for AI avatar video](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-synthesia-alternatives-for-ai-avatar-videos-2026) goes deeper on that specific tradeoff than we can here.

## Job two: making the product itself move

Spokesperson ads talk about the product. This job shows it: the fabric flexing, the lid opening, the liquid pouring, the camera orbiting a hero shot you never had the budget to film. It is also where the general-purpose models in our [2026 AI video generator survey](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-video-generators-in-2026) do their best work.

![Runway homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tools-for-ecommerce-product-videos-in-2026/tool-runway.webp)

- **<a href="https://runwayml.com/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Runway</a>** · **Strength**: the most controllable camera moves, and image-to-video that respects your original product photo instead of reinterpreting it · **Weakness**: credit burn is real once you start iterating, and small text on packaging still degrades · **Best for**: hero shots and PDP loops where one clip gets reused for a year
- **<a href="https://klingai.com/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Kling</a>** · **Strength**: physical motion, cloth, and liquids look right more often than they should at the price · **Weakness**: less precise control, so you generate more takes to get the one · **Best for**: apparel, food, and anything where material behavior sells the item

![Kling homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tools-for-ecommerce-product-videos-in-2026/tool-kling.webp)

Both are image-to-video tools first, which means the quality ceiling is set by the still you feed them rather than by the prompt. That is the single most common mistake we see: teams spend an afternoon rewriting prompts when the actual fix is a better source image. The workflow in our [AI product photo guide for ecommerce](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-create-product-photos-with-ai-for-ecommerce) produces the kind of clean, well-lit, correctly-proportioned input these models need, and it is worth doing before you spend a single video credit.

![Cinematic still life of a glass bottle lit by a single ring light](https://media.basedlabs.ai/0bc2a838-7c69-4ac3-b6ec-71d9b52e7905.png)

## Job three: cutting one asset into thirty placements

Whatever you generate in jobs one and two, you now need it in 9:16 for TikTok, 4:5 for the feed, 1:1 for the grid, and 16:9 for the site, each with different pacing and captions. Doing this by hand is where product video programs quietly die.

![OpusClip homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tools-for-ecommerce-product-videos-in-2026/tool-opusclip.webp)

<a href="https://www.opus.pro/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">OpusClip</a> is the default here for long-to-short: it finds the moments, reframes with subject tracking, burns captions, and scores each cut for likely engagement. The scoring is directionally useful rather than precise, but the reframing and caption work alone removes hours per asset. Its weakness is that it expects a long source, so it does less for you when your input is already a 6-second generated clip. For that case, the tactics in our [guide to making viral TikTok videos with AI](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-make-viral-tiktok-videos-with-ai) are a better fit than a clipping tool.

## Job four: putting the video where it actually sells

A product video sitting in a Drive folder has a conversion rate of zero. This job is delivery: getting the clip onto the product page in a format that loads fast, plays inline, and can be attributed to revenue.

![Videowise homepage](https://media.basedlabs.ai/basedlabs/best-ai-tools-for-ecommerce-product-videos-in-2026/tool-videowise.webp)

<a href="https://videowise.com/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Videowise</a> is the most complete option for Shopify stores, combining shoppable video delivery with per-video revenue analytics, which is the only way to find out whether any of the work above is paying for itself. It is not a generation tool and does not pretend to be. Pair it with one creation tool from the sections above and you have a closed loop. Teams running video across social as well as on-site should also look at our roundup of [AI tools for social media video creation](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-tools-for-social-media-video-creation-2026), since the delivery requirements diverge sharply between the two surfaces.

## Job five: wiring the four jobs into one pipeline

Here is the part the ranked lists never get to. Once you have picked a tool for each of the four jobs, you own an integration problem: product data has to become a prompt, the prompt has to become an image, the image has to become a clip, the clip has to become five crops, and the crops have to land somewhere your storefront can read. Doing that by hand for 300 SKUs is not a tooling problem, it is a staffing problem.

Orchestration tools exist for exactly this seam. The pattern that works for catalog-scale ecommerce product video is a [node-based AI canvas](https://www.wireflow.ai/blog/best-ai-tools-for-ecommerce-product-videos-in-2026) where each stage is a node, models are swappable without rebuilding the chain, and one run can be triggered per row of a product feed. That structure matters more than which specific generation model sits in the middle, because models get replaced every few months and the pipeline around them should not have to be rebuilt each time.

![Open cardboard shipping box on a concrete floor in directional light](https://media.basedlabs.ai/13d9dbf2-4659-4238-986e-59f2de957023.png)

If you would rather build the seam yourself, that is a reasonable choice and the API-first route is well trodden. Our [complete guide to programmatic video generation platforms](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/complete-guide-programmatic-video-generation-platforms) covers the tradeoffs between calling model APIs directly and running an orchestration layer on top of them, including where the direct route stops being cheaper.

## What we would run for a 300-SKU catalog

Concretely, if we inherited a mid-size store tomorrow and had one month: source images through a controlled photo pipeline, Kling for material-heavy categories and Runway for hero shots, Creatify for paid social variant volume, OpusClip only for the assets that start long, and Videowise on-site so the revenue attribution exists from day one.

The sequencing matters more than the picks. Start with the 20 SKUs that already drive most of your revenue, build the pipeline against those, and only widen once a run costs you nothing but compute. Most teams do the opposite, batch the whole catalog on day one, and end up with 300 mediocre clips nobody wants to publish. The prompt discipline in our [hands-on guide to customizing AI video output](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/master-the-prompt-a-hands-on-guide-to-customizing-your-ai-video-output) is worth internalizing before that first batch, since it is the difference between two takes and twelve.

## FAQ

**Can AI product videos legally show a product the model has never seen?**
The model has seen your product if you feed it your product photo, which is why image-to-video matters so much for ecommerce. Text-to-video invents a plausible item, and shipping an ad for an item that does not exist is a real advertising-standards problem in most markets. Keep your source images authoritative and the legal question mostly disappears.

**How much does a full product video pipeline cost per SKU in 2026?**
Between roughly one and five dollars in model credits for a short clip set, depending on how many takes you burn getting the one. The subscription costs usually exceed the compute costs at small volumes and invert somewhere past a few hundred SKUs, which is the point where the [programmatic route](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/complete-guide-programmatic-video-generation-platforms) starts to pay for itself.

**Do AI-generated product videos hurt conversion compared to real footage?**
The evidence we have seen says no for b-roll and lifestyle context, and yes for anything the customer reads as a fake testimonial. Shoppers penalize apparent dishonesty far harder than they penalize synthetic visuals.

**What about watermarks on free tiers?**
Nearly every free tier watermarks, and a watermarked clip on a product detail page reads as amateurish. Our list of [AI video generators without watermarks](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/best-ai-video-generators-without-watermarks-in-2026) covers which paid tiers actually remove them versus which just shrink them.

**Does the video need sound?**
On-site, no, because PDP video autoplays muted. On social, increasingly yes, and native model audio has closed most of the gap with a separate audio pass. We wrote about [why native audio is the next real leap for AI video](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/why-native-audio-is-the-next-leap-for-ai-video) if you want the technical version.

**How many variants per SKU is enough?**
Three to five for paid social, one for the product page. Past that, returns fall off fast because the variance between variants is smaller than the variance between audiences. The UGC-format breakdown in our [comparison of AI UGC video generators](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/ugcvideoai-vs-arcadsai-which-ai-ugc-video-generator-actually-delivers) shows where the variant ceiling tends to sit.

**Should a small store bother with any of this?**
Under about 30 SKUs, pick one tool from job one, one from job two, and skip the orchestration layer entirely. The pipeline argument only starts to pay above the point where a human doing it by hand becomes a full-time job.

## Wrapping up

The tools in each of these five categories are good enough in 2026 that tool choice is no longer the interesting decision. What separates stores producing four videos a quarter from stores producing four hundred is whether the handoffs between stages are automated or manual, which is a workflow question rather than a model question. Teams that hit that wall usually end up either writing glue code or adopting an [AI workflow automation platform](https://www.wireflow.ai/for/ecommerce) to hold the stages together, and either answer beats doing it by hand.

Start with the job that is currently blocking you, not with the tool that ranked first somewhere. If your bottleneck is that nothing gets published, no generation model will fix it. If your bottleneck is that your source photos are weak, our [ecommerce product image guide](https://www.basedlabs.ai/articles/how-to-create-product-photos-with-ai-for-ecommerce) is a better next click than any video tool on this page.

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