Best AI Video Tools in Australia 2026: The Honest Ranking

Refreshed 29 July 2026 — folded in tools reviewed since June: Google Vids, Captions, CapCut, Luma Dream Machine, Pika, OpusClip, Descript and Sora.

Top Pick: Google Vids (20/25) — the first AI video tool to clear our Australian Fit gate. Free for ten videos a month with any Google account, powered by Veo 3.1, billed in AUD with GST handled when you do upgrade. It's the best everyday workplace video tool most Australian businesses already own. Best avatar tool: Synthesia (19/25) — type a script, pick a presenter, get a clean training or explainer video without a studio, camera or actor. Best for creative and marketing video: Runway (19/25) — the strongest short-form generator we've tested, with the Gen-4 family producing genuinely cinematic clips. Best AUD-billed generator: Google Veo 3.1 (18/25) — text-to-video with native audio, bought through a Google AI Pro subscription in Australian dollars.

Last reviewed: 8 October 2026 by Adam (rest of the field and AUD answers synced; ranking as at 29 July 2026). Nineteen tools reviewed and scored against our five-criteria framework; the nine that matter most are ranked below.

Earlier editions of this roundup: 3 Jun 2026. This is edition 2, dated 8 Oct 2026. We keep every edition so you can see how the tool and our verdict have moved — how and why.

First, what do you actually want AI video for?

"AI video tool" now covers three different jobs, and the right pick depends on which one is yours.

If you want to turn a script into a talking-head video — training, onboarding, internal comms, an explainer with a presenter on screen — you want an AI avatar tool. That's Synthesia, HeyGen and, for short-form social, Captions.

If you want to generate a short cinematic clip from a prompt or an image — a moving shot for an ad, a social reel, a product visual — you want a generative video model. That's Runway, Kling AI, Google Veo 3.1 and Luma Dream Machine. You describe a scene; the model invents the footage.

If you want to assemble and edit everyday video — a staff announcement, a how-to, a social clip cut from footage you already have — you want an AI editor. That's Google Vids and CapCut, and it's the job most small businesses actually need done.

The jobs rarely overlap. A marketer making a 6-second hero clip and an L&D manager turning a compliance deck into fifteen training videos are shopping in different aisles, even though both say "AI video."

One thing most of the field still shares: on the web, seven of the nine ranked tools bill in US dollars (HeyGen, CapCut, Kling and Luma sell AUD plans only through their iPhone apps), and none hosts your data in Australia. The only two that bill in AUD everywhere both wear a Google logo — and that's the story of this refresh.

Quick-pick table

Seven of these nine bill in US dollars. The two that don't are Google's: Vids is free until you upgrade, and both Vids and Veo ride on Google AI subscriptions that Google sells locally at an AUD, GST-inclusive price. Every other AUD figure is our own conversion at ≈1.40 and will move with the exchange rate and your card's foreign-transaction fee; GST treatment on the USD tools is rarely shown up front. All figures were confirmed on each vendor's live pages and detailed in the linked reviews.

Why this category matters for Australians — and where it stings

AI video has crossed from gimmick to genuinely useful. An L&D team can turn a slide deck into fifteen narrated training videos in an afternoon; a marketer can generate a cinematic 6-second hero clip without a shoot; a small business can now make ten AI videos a month for free. The capability is real, and for the right job it saves serious money.

But this is still the category where the Australian catch bites hardest, for two reasons.

Data residency. Video tools ingest your most sensitive raw material — staff faces and voices, unreleased product footage, internal scripts, brand IP. Where that material is stored, and under whose laws, is a genuine procurement question. The answer here is uniformly "not Australia." Synthesia stores all customer data in the EU (Ireland and Frankfurt on AWS). HeyGen, Runway, Captions and Luma are US-hosted — and for Captions, that includes your face and voice data. Google's Vids and Veo process on Google's global infrastructure with no Australian residency guarantee. Kling stores data in Singapore under a Beijing-headquartered parent, Kuaishou, which can expose your uploads to PRC law regardless of where the servers sit. CapCut is ByteDance-owned, stores data in Malaysia, Singapore and the US, and its content licence over cloud uploads is sweeping. For a government, finance, health or legal buyer, those last two facts can end the conversation.

Billing. Seven of the nine ranked tools bill in US dollars with no native-AUD price and rarely a clear GST line — a foreign-transaction fee on your card and your own GST maths at BAS time. The exceptions are Google Vids and Google Veo 3.1: Vids is free for ten videos a month, and when either needs a paid plan you buy a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription that Google bills in Australian dollars, GST-inclusive, the same way it sells Workspace. That billing story is a big part of why the two Google tools now hold the top Australian Fit scores in the category.

The honest theme: the tools are good, and the Australian experience of buying and trusting them is where most still lose marks. The difference since June is that one tool finally stopped losing them.

How we tested

We scored each tool against our five-criteria framework — Value for Money, Ease of Use, Feature Depth, Australian Fit, and Reliability & Support, each out of five for a total out of 25 — and anchored every price, plan, residency and policy claim to the vendor's own pages. Nineteen Video AI tools have now been through the full review process; the nine ranked here are the ones that matter for most buyers.

One rule shapes the verdict. Under our Australian Fit gate, a category Top Pick requires an Australian Fit score of at least 4/5. When we first published this roundup in June, nothing cleared the bar and we withheld the badge. That has changed: Google Vids (4/5) and Google Veo 3.1 (4/5) both clear it, and Vids takes the badge on the higher total. Read our Methodology for the full framework, and each linked review for the complete scorecard and sources.

The picks, ranked

1. Google Vids — 20/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good 🏆 Top Pick

Google Vids is the easiest way for a non-editor to make a watchable workplace video, and since April it's free for ten videos a month with any Google account — the free clips generated by Veo 3.1, with Lyria AI background music thrown in. You give it a prompt or point it at a Drive file, and it drafts an editable storyboard: scenes, script, stock media and captions. You edit the plan, not the pixels — reorder scenes, rewrite lines, swap a clip — then share it with the same permission controls as a Doc. For the marketing coordinator who needs a staff announcement out by Friday, that's exactly the right abstraction.

It wins the badge on Australian Fit (4/5): globally available from day one, and paid upgrades flow through your Workspace or Google AI subscription, billed in AUD with GST handled the standard way — the cleanest upgrade being Google AI Pro at AUD$32.99/month for higher limits, AI avatars and HD/4K output. The honest limits: creative control is shallow by design, the stock and voice libraries lean American, and processing is offshore on Google's global infrastructure. It's not the best video tool you can buy — it's the best one you already have. Read the full Google Vids review →

2. Synthesia — 19/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Synthesia is the most polished AI avatar tool on the market. Type a script, pick a presenter and a language, and it produces a clean talking-head video — no studio, camera or actor. For Australian L&D, HR and internal-comms teams pumping out training and explainer content, the workflow is genuinely simple and the feature set runs deep: a large library of stock avatars, custom avatars, AI dubbing across many languages, and slide-style scene building that feels like making a deck.

The catch is the Australian fit (2/5), and it's why it doesn't take the badge despite the second-best score. Pricing and billing are USD-only (Starter from US$29/mo billed annually, ≈ AUD$41), all customer data is stored in the EU — Ireland and Frankfurt on AWS — with no Australian or APAC residency option, support runs on UK/EU/US hours, and GST/ABN handling isn't disclosed on the pricing page. If you have no data-sovereignty constraints and you're comfortable with USD invoicing, it's excellent. If you're a government, regulated or privacy-sensitive buyer, the EU-only hosting is likely a deal-breaker. Read the full Synthesia review →

3. Runway — 19/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Runway is the strongest short-form AI video tool we've tested. The Gen-4 family produces genuinely cinematic clips — coherent motion, convincing camera moves, strong image-to-video — and there's a broad creative suite built around it (video-to-video, inpainting, motion brush, the lot). For a marketer, agency or content creator, this is the one that produces footage you'd actually put in front of a client.

It ties Synthesia on score but its job is narrower — creative clips, not the script-to-presenter workflow most businesses reach for first. The Australian catch is the same shape (2/5): billing is USD-only, there's no local data region, and GST/ABN tax-invoice handling isn't documented. The free credits or the US$12/mo Standard plan (≈ AUD$17) are an easy, low-risk way to test real output. If AUD billing, onshore data residency or a clean local tax invoice are hard requirements, look elsewhere. Read the full Runway review →

4. Google Veo 3.1 — 18/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Veo 3.1 is the best text-to-video tool an Australian can actually sign up for and pay for in AUD today. It generates short clips — 8 seconds in Flow, 10 seconds in the Gemini app — at 1080p with synchronised native audio: dialogue, sound effects and ambient noise in one pass, which is the trick that puts it ahead of most rivals. You reach it through Google AI Pro (AUD$32.99/mo, GST-inclusive) or Google AI Ultra from AUD$149.99/mo, billed by Google Australia with a GST-compliant tax invoice.

Since June, Veo's Australian Fit has firmed to 4/5 — AUD pricing, GST-inclusive billing and full local availability now clear the gate, with only the missing Australian data residency and global-only support holding it back. The remaining catches: there's no standalone Veo subscription (you're buying a whole Google AI bundle), generations run against opaque daily quotas, and you'll still hit the occasional warped hand. For an Australian business that wants generative video without a USD card, this is the path of least resistance — and now the badge-worthy runner-up. Read the full Google Veo 3.1 review →

5. Kling AI — 18/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Kling is, frankly, one of the best consumer AI video generators money can buy in 2026 — genuinely cinematic motion, native 1080p with built-in synced audio and lip-sync (the Kling 3.0 series stretches to 4K and clips around 10 seconds), and commercial-use pricing that starts under US$10 a month (≈ AUD$14). For an Australian solo creator or small agency making non-sensitive social or marketing content, it's astonishing value.

But the Australian Fit is the catch, and it's now scored at 1/5 — the weakest mark on this list alongside HeyGen and CapCut. On the web Kling bills in USD only, with no ABN and no GST-claimable invoice; its iPhone app sells AUD plans on an Apple tax invoice, at about 15% more — and there's no Australian support channel. Your data is stored in Singapore, and the company is owned by Kuaishou, a Beijing-headquartered PRC business, which means parent-company jurisdiction can expose your uploads to Chinese law regardless of where the servers sit. The content licence is also broad enough to be widely read as permitting your material to train future models. If you're in government, finance, health, legal, or you handle client-confidential or proprietary IP, that combination is a hard no. If you're posting AI clips to Instagram, it's a brilliant tool with paperwork you'll need to manage yourself. Read the full Kling AI review →

6. HeyGen — 18/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

HeyGen is the other big avatar tool, and it's good at it — fast custom-avatar creation, strong AI translation and lip-synced localisation, and a slick interface that gets a non-technical user to a finished talking-head video quickly. If your core need is turning one video into twenty languages, its localisation is arguably the best here.

Its Australian fit is still weak (2/5): US data hosting with no AU region and no AU-specific support. The billing half is better than we first wrote — heygen.com is USD-only (Creator from US$29/mo, ≈ AUD$41 ex-GST, ~AUD$50 landed), but the Australian App Store sells Creator at A$49.00/month or A$449.00/year in Australian dollars with GST included on an Apple tax invoice, at effectively the same landed cost. On capability it's a close cousin of Synthesia; on the Australian experience it trails it. If you specifically need best-in-class video translation and you can wear US hosting, it's worth a look. (Corrected 21 Sep 2026 — was 17/25 and Australian Fit 1/5; this paragraph previously said no GST/ABN handling was surfaced at all.) For most Australian buyers weighing an avatar tool, start with Synthesia and only switch if localisation is your make-or-break feature. Read the full HeyGen review →

7. CapCut — 17/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

CapCut is the most capable free AI video editor most Australians will ever touch. Auto-captions, background removal, audio clean-up and one-tap trend effects are fast and genuinely good, and the free tier exports without a watermark — more than many paid editors offer. For a café, tradie or e-commerce store posting to Reels and TikTok, it's built for exactly that job. Paid tiers start around US$9.99/mo (≈ AUD$14) for Standard.

The catch sits in the terms, not the toolbar, and it holds Australian Fit to 2/5. CapCut is owned by ByteDance, its servers sit in Malaysia, Singapore and the US, and its terms grant a sweeping, ongoing licence over anything you upload to its cloud. It does bill Australians in Australian dollars through the AU App Store — A$14.99 and A$29.99 a month, A$139.99 a year, GST included — which is the one local box it ticks. (Corrected 21 Sep 2026 to match the CapCut review's own correction earlier the same day: Australian Fit 1/5 → 2/5, 16/25 → 17/25; this paragraph previously said there was no AUD billing or GST invoice.) For casual social clips it's hard to beat for the price. For client work, sensitive footage, or anything with faces and voices you don't own outright, read the fine print first. Read the full CapCut review →

8. Captions — 16/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Captions is the fastest way for a non-editor to turn a phone selfie or a written script into a polished, captioned talking-head video for Reels, TikTok or Shorts. The chat-based editor is the headline: type "remove the filler words" or "cut the awkward pause" and it applies the change, fixes your eye contact and strips background noise. Auto-captioning in 100-plus languages is the standout feature, and the Mirage AI avatars can build a spokesperson video from a script alone. The cheap way in has gone, though: the US$9.99 Pro tier was retired, so the cheapest paid plan is now Max at US$24.99/mo (≈ AUD$35).

The catches: it bills only in USD, it hosts your video and voice data — your biometrics — in the United States, and the credit system burns faster than the marketing suggests, with avatar generation chewing through allowances quickest. Australian Fit lands at 2/5. A strong pick for solo marketers and creators who live on short-form social; wrong for anyone with strict data-residency needs. Read the full Captions review →

9. Luma Dream Machine — 16/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Luma Dream Machine is the closest thing to a film camera you can drive with a sentence. The Ray3.14 model produces genuinely cinematic clips — real depth, believable motion, native 1080p — and the Draft Mode workflow lets you fail fast before spending credits on a polished render; the newer Ray3.2 adds 20-second 1080p clips, HDR export and a public API. But it's a US product through and through: Plus starts at US$30/mo (≈ AUD$42), billed in USD, hosted on US servers, with no AUD billing on the web (the iPhone app sells AUD plans at a premium), no GST clarity and no Australian data residency (AU Fit 2/5). Buy it for the output, not the comfort. Read the full Luma Dream Machine review →

The rest of the field

Nineteen Video AI tools have now been through our full review process. The ten outside the ranking, briefly:

• Descript (15/25) — text-based video editing that's the real deal, held back by USD-only pricing and US data storage.
• InVideo (15/25) — writes the script, picks the footage and voices your video from one prompt, but the credit meter and USD billing sting.
• Pictory (15/25) — fast, no-nonsense text-to-video that bills in USD and ignores Australia.
• Pika (15/25) — the app behind the melting, squishing, exploding clips all over your feed; fun, not business-grade. The free plan no longer includes monthly credits; the iPhone app sells AUD plans from A$25 a month.
• VEED (16/25) — a browser-based editor with real strengths, including auto-subtitles, and now priced in AUD from A$17 a user a month billed yearly.
• Vizard (15/25) — chops podcasts and webinars into ready-to-post short clips fast.
• Opus Clip (16/25) — the most popular AI clipping tool on the market, but Australians pay in USD.
• Luma Agents (15/25) — brief in, campaign out, and now on sale to any Australian business, though Agents start on the US$90 Pro plan.
• Grok Imagine (13/25) — fast and cheap, but a deepfake scandal and an active Australian eSafety probe keep it off any recommendation list.
• Sora (9/25) — the June edition of this roundup called Sora "the obvious omission." We've since reviewed it, and the verdict is a post-mortem: OpenAI shut the consumer app on 26 April 2026 and the API closes 24 September 2026. There is nothing left for an Australian business to buy. If you came here searching for Sora, start with Veo 3.1 instead.

How to choose: start with data, then the billing split

In this category, two questions settle most decisions before you ever compare features.

Q: Where will my footage and data be stored — and does that matter for my organisation? A: This is the first filter, not the last. If you're in government, finance, health, legal, or you handle client-confidential or proprietary IP, rule out Kling (Singapore hosting plus PRC parent-company jurisdiction) and CapCut (ByteDance ownership plus a sweeping cloud content licence) immediately, and treat the rest as "offshore, assess before you buy" — Synthesia in the EU, the others in the US or on Google's global infrastructure. None hosts in Australia. If you're a sole creator posting to social, this is a footnote and you can optimise for output and price instead.

Q: Do I need to pay in Australian dollars with a GST invoice? A: Then it's Google, twice over. Google Vids is free for ten videos a month, and both Vids and Veo 3.1 upgrade through a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription billed in AUD, GST-inclusive. Outside Google, VEED now prices its web plans in AUD (from A$17 a user a month billed yearly), and HeyGen, CapCut, Kling, Luma and Pika sell AUD subscriptions through their iPhone apps on the Australian App Store. The rest bill in USD on the web, add a foreign-transaction fee, and leave GST for you to sort at BAS time.

Q: I just need everyday workplace video — announcements, training clips, simple promos. A: Google Vids. It's free for ten videos a month, drafts the storyboard for you, and shares like a Doc. Upgrade only when the cap bites.

Q: I want to turn scripts into training or explainer videos with a presenter on screen. A: Synthesia. It's the most polished avatar tool here and the easiest recommendation for L&D, HR and internal comms — provided EU data hosting is acceptable to you. If video translation across many languages is your top priority, compare it against HeyGen; if you're making short-form social clips of yourself, look at Captions.

Q: I want cinematic clips for ads, reels or marketing. A: Runway for the strongest, most controllable creative suite; Luma Dream Machine if you want film-pipeline output like HDR; Kling if you want the best value and have no data-sensitivity constraints. Veo 3.1 if you'd rather it ride on an AUD Google subscription.

The Top Pick — and why the badge finally comes out of the drawer

When this roundup first ran in June, we withheld the Top Pick badge: under the Australian Fit gate the category winner must score at least 4/5 on Australian Fit, and nothing cleared it. That was the gate working as intended — and this is the gate working as intended too.

Top Pick: Google Vids (20/25, Australian Fit 4/5). It clears the gate on the strength of exactly the things this category has always lacked: available in Australia from day one, a genuinely free tier (ten videos a month), and AUD, GST-handled billing through the Google account most businesses already have. It also happens to hold the highest score in the category, because for the everyday video most Australian businesses actually make — announcements, training, simple promos — the storyboard-first workflow is the right tool. It is not the most powerful video generator here, and its stock and voices lean American. It is the best overall pick for the most readers, and the first tool in this category we can honestly badge.

Runner-up: Synthesia (19/25). The best pure avatar tool and the strongest score outside Google, held off the badge by a 2/5 Australian Fit — EU-only hosting and USD billing. Google Veo 3.1 (18/25, AU Fit 4/5) also clears the gate and is the pick if generative clips, not workplace video, are your actual job.

FAQ

Q: Is there an AI video tool that bills in Australian dollars? A: Google's two do it most cleanly. Google Vids is free for ten videos a month, and its paid path — like Google Veo 3.1's — runs through a Google AI Pro (AUD$32.99/mo, GST-inclusive) or Ultra subscription that Google sells in AUD. On the web, VEED also prices in AUD, from A$17 a user a month billed yearly. HeyGen, CapCut, Kling, Luma and Pika sell AUD subscriptions, GST included, only through their iPhone apps on the Australian App Store. Synthesia bills in US dollars; Runway and Captions bill in USD on the web (their iPhone apps list in-app plans our reviews have not yet assessed), as do the web plans of the App Store five, so expect a foreign-transaction fee and your own GST maths at BAS time.

Q: Do any of these keep my data in Australia? A: No. None hosts in an advertised Australian region. Synthesia stores data in the EU (Ireland and Frankfurt); Runway, HeyGen, Captions and Luma are US-hosted; Google's Vids and Veo process on Google's global infrastructure; Kling stores in Singapore; CapCut in Malaysia, Singapore and the US. For a regulated organisation, settle data residency before you buy.

Q: Which ones should I avoid if I handle sensitive or confidential material? A: Kling and CapCut, first. Both sit under Chinese-headquartered parents — Kuaishou and ByteDance — which can expose your uploads to PRC law regardless of server location, and both carry content licences broad enough to be read as permitting use of your material. Brilliant for casual social clips; a hard no for government, finance, health, legal or proprietary IP.

Q: What's the difference between the avatar tools, the generators and the editors? A: Synthesia, HeyGen and Captions are avatar tools — they turn a written script into a presenter-on-screen video, ideal for training, explainers and social clips. Runway, Kling, Veo 3.1 and Luma are generative models — they invent short cinematic clips from a text prompt or an image, ideal for ads and social. Google Vids and CapCut are AI editors — they help you assemble, caption and polish everyday video. Different jobs; pick by which one you actually need.

Q: Which tool wins the Top Pick badge? A: Google Vids. Under the Australian Fit gate, the category winner must score at least 4/5 on Australian Fit — a bar nothing cleared when this roundup first ran in June. Vids clears it (4/5) on free access, AUD billing and day-one Australian availability, and holds the category's top score at 20/25. Google Veo 3.1 (18/25, AU Fit 4/5) is the only other tool over the bar.

Q: What happened to Sora? A: It's gone. OpenAI shut the consumer Sora app and website on 26 April 2026, and the developer API stops accepting requests on 24 September 2026. We scored it 9/25 as a post-mortem. If you built anything on it, migrate now — Veo 3.1 is the natural successor for Australians.

Bottom line

For most Australian businesses, start with Google Vids — it's free for ten videos a month, billed in AUD when you outgrow the cap, and built for the unglamorous video that actually gets made. Synthesia is the pick if you're turning scripts into presenter-led training video, and Runway if you're making cinematic clips for marketing. Veo 3.1 is the generative model to buy if you want AUD billing; Kling and CapCut are the value champions for casual, non-sensitive social content — extraordinary output, with data and licence baggage you'll have to manage yourself. Captions owns the short-form talking-head niche, and HeyGen is the one to check if multilingual video translation is your make-or-break feature.

The theme across the field is unchanged: this is mostly a USD-billed category with no Australian data residency, which is exactly why the scores sit where they do. What's changed is the top of the table. Google Vids cleared our Australian Fit gate, took the category's first Top Pick badge, and set the bar for everyone else: a real free tier, AUD billing, and availability that treats Australians as customers rather than an afterthought. We'll keep refreshing this ranking as the rest of the field catches up.

The full Video AI index

Every tool we have reviewed and scored in this category, highest score first. Scores are out of 25 across our five criteria; ★ marks the category Editor's Choice. A tool can only wear five stars, or be named a Top Pick, with an Australian Fit of 4/5 or better.

Head-to-head comparisons in this category

• Arcads vs Creatify (2026)
• CapCut vs OpusClip for Australians 2026
• Captions vs VEED (2026)
• Colossyan vs Synthesia (2026)
• Google Veo 3.1 vs Kling AI in Australia 2026
• Hedra vs Colossyan in 2026
• Higgsfield vs Kling for Australian Creators in 2026
• Higgsfield vs Runway for Australian Creators in 2026
• InVideo vs Pictory for Australians 2026
• Kling AI vs Hailuo AI for Australian Creators in 2026
• Luma Dream Machine vs Pika for Australians 2026
• Luma Dream Machine vs Runway for Australians 2026
• Munch vs Klap (2026) — Munch: Repositioned
• Opus Clip vs Vizard (2026)
• Pika vs Kling for Australian Creators in 2026
• Pika vs Runway for Australian Creators in 2026
• Runway vs Google Veo for Australians 2026
• Runway vs Kling for Australians 2026
• Sora vs Veo for Australians 2026
• Synthesia vs HeyGen for Australian Business 2026

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Sources

Primary vendor pages for all nineteen reviewed tools (pricing, models, data-residency and policy pages), fetched on each review's date and detailed with Wayback snapshots in the individual reviews and verified dossiers:

1. Google Vids — free-tier announcement, Veo 3.1/Lyria update and Google AI subscription pages (AUD pricing) — last checked 28 June 2026
2. Synthesia — pricing, security/data-hosting and dubbing pages — checked 3 June 2026
3. Runway — pricing and terms pages — checked 3 June 2026
4. Google Veo 3.1 — Google AI Pro/Ultra AU plan pages (AUD pricing) and Veo model pages — checked 3 June 2026
5. Kling AI — pricing, terms/content-licence and data pages — checked 3 June 2026
6. Captions — pricing page and Help Centre — checked 20 June 2026
7. HeyGen — pricing and security pages — checked 3 June 2026
8. CapCut — pricing-change notice, terms and privacy policy — checked 13 June 2026
9. Luma — pricing and Ray model announcement pages — checked 20 June 2026

Full primary-source citations and Wayback snapshots are in each tool's individual review and verified dossier. All USD prices are converted at ≈1.40; AUD conversions are indicative only. Google AI Pro at AUD$32.99/mo is Google's own AUD, GST-inclusive price.

Reviewed by Adam for The AI Directory Australia. First published 3 June 2026; refreshed 29 July 2026. The AI Directory Australia is an independent editorial publication — we don't accept payment for positive reviews.