Veo 3.1 Standard

Overview

Veo 3.1 Standard is Google's video model for prompt-directed clips with native audio. The upstream Veo family supports additional image-guided workflows, but this MachGen catalog entry currently exposes text-to-video only.

On MachGen, choose 16:9 or 9:16, a 4, 6, or 8 second duration, and one of the resolutions shown above. Generated Veo video may include Google's SynthID watermark. For lower-cost iteration, use Veo 3.1 Fast.

Why choose Veo 3.1 Standard

Key strengths

• Google's quality-focused Veo tier for cinematic composition, realistic motion, and native sound.
• Strong prompt interpretation for camera language, dialogue, ambience, and effects.
• High-resolution landscape or portrait output is suited to polished short-form production.

Good fit for

• Cinematic commercials, narrative shots, establishing scenes, and product films.
• Dialogue or sound-rich clips created directly from a written brief.
• Final-quality versions after the creative direction has been validated.

Inputs and output settings

This table reflects the model routes and controls currently exposed by MachGen.

Using Veo 3.1 Standard

1. Choose a supported generation mode in Playground.
2. Add the required prompt and source or reference assets.
3. Select output settings from the controls shown for that mode.
4. Generate, then inspect the returned asset before reusing the settings through the API.

Practical guidance

• Describe the subject, action or composition, environment, and visual direction in a clear order.

Prompting notes

• Describe the subject, action, environment, camera, lighting, and audio in a clear order.
• Use concrete camera language such as wide shot, close-up, tracking shot, or slow push-in.
• Put short spoken lines in quotation marks and describe the intended speaker.
• Keep each clip focused on a small number of actions, then review motion, speech, and continuity before production use.

How to get better Veo 3.1 Standard results

• Write prompts like a compact shot brief: subject, action, setting, shot size, camera move, lighting, then sound.
• Put spoken dialogue in quotation marks and keep it short enough for the selected duration.
• Avoid contradictory camera instructions such as static tripod and rapid handheld tracking in the same shot.
• Use Fast for exploration when appropriate, then move the strongest prompt to Standard for the final pass.

Limits and availability

• MachGen admits only the modes and settings listed above for this catalog model.
• Source assets must finish uploading before a request can be submitted.
• Generated results can vary between requests, including when the same prompt and settings are reused.
• Veo 3.1 Standard is pass-through. MachGen sends the request through its upstream provider integration and returns the generated asset.

Learn more

For model background, technical details, and architecture, see the official Veo 3.1 model documentation.

Try this model in the MachGen Playground.

Official documentation may describe capabilities or parameters that are not currently exposed by MachGen. Use the Inputs and output settings section above as the source of truth for this page.

Veo 3.1 Standard pricing

See Pricing for currently published MachGen rates. When available, the Playground estimate reflects the selected task and output settings.

Veo 3.1 Standard on MachGen

Deployment: Pass-through. Veo 3.1 Standard is pass-through. MachGen sends the request through its upstream provider integration and returns the generated asset.

The Playground and API sections on this page list the inputs and output settings exposed for this model.