
Nvidia Cosmos 3 Super Image-to-Video API
Cosmos3 is a collection of Omnimodal world models capable of generating dynamic, high-quality video, image, audio, and action commands from combinations of text, image, video, and action trajectory inputs.
Nvidia Cosmos 3 Super Image-to-Video is developed by NVIDIA. Atlas Cloud (operated by Atlas Cloud AI LLC) provides access to it and does not own it. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Image-to-Video
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Image-to-Video is NVIDIA's flagship image animation model built on the Cosmos 3 architecture. It transforms a single still image into a smooth, physically grounded video clip guided by a text prompt — delivering cinematic motion, accurate temporal coherence, and fine-grained control over frame count and pacing.
🌟 Key Features
🎬 Image-Driven Animation
Animates any still image into a fluid video sequence, preserving the original composition, subject identity, and visual style of the reference image.
📝 Prompt-Guided Motion
Accepts a text prompt to direct the type, direction, and style of motion — from subtle ambient movement to dynamic camera trajectories and subject actions.
🚫 Negative Prompting
Accepts a negative_prompt to explicitly suppress unwanted motion artifacts, distortions, or visual elements in the output video.
⏱ Flexible Duration Control
Set the output duration in whole seconds (1–7). Each second renders at 24 fps — pay only for the duration you generate.
🔁 Reproducible Results
Pin a seed value to reproduce or iterate on a specific generation, enabling systematic prompt and parameter refinement.
⚙️ Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
prompt | ✅ | Text description of the motion and scene. Maximum 2,500 characters. |
image_url | ✅ | Reference image to animate. Accepts a public URL or Base64-encoded image. Supported formats: png, jpeg, jpg, webp. |
negative_prompt | ❌ | Content to exclude from the output (default: empty). |
duration | ❌ | Output video duration in seconds (1–7, default: 5). Each second renders at 24 fps. |
num_inference_steps | ❌ | Denoising steps (1–100, default: 28). Higher values improve quality but increase time. |
guidance_scale | ❌ | Prompt adherence strength (1.0–20.0, default: 6.0). Higher values follow the prompt more strictly. |
seed | ❌ | Random seed for reproducibility. Omit for random results. |
💲 Pricing
| Billing Standard | Price |
|---|---|
| Per second of video | $0.055 |
Billing is based on the duration parameter in seconds (e.g. 5s → 0.385).
💡 Prompt Tips
The elephant slowly raises its trunk, gentle breeze moves the surrounding grass, cinematic slow push-in, golden hour lighting.
- Describe the motion explicitly: subject action, camera movement, and environmental dynamics.
- Use
negative_promptto suppress common issues:flickering, blur, distortion, sudden cuts, static. - Keep
guidance_scalebetween 5–7 for natural motion; increase to 8–10 for strict prompt adherence. - Use shorter
duration(1–2s) for quick previews before committing to a full-length generation. - Fix
seedwhen iterating on the prompt to isolate the effect of each wording change.
🎯 Use Cases
- Product Animation — Bring static product photos to life with subtle motion and environmental effects.
- Cinematic Previsualization — Quickly animate storyboard frames or concept art to preview camera moves and scene timing.
- Social Media Content — Generate eye-catching looping video clips from still images for any platform.
- Creative Storytelling — Animate illustrations, paintings, or photographs into dynamic narrative sequences.
- Virtual Production — Produce physically grounded environment and character animations for pre-production workflows.
- Marketing & Advertising — Transform campaign visuals into dynamic video assets without full video production.
📝 Notes
- Both
promptandimage_urlare required fields. image_urlmust be a publicly accessible URL or a Base64-encoded image string.- Each second of video renders at 24 fps. Max duration is 7 seconds (168 frames).
- Task status values:
created,processing,completed,failed. - Generated video URLs are returned in
outputsonce status iscompleted.
🔗 Related Models
- NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Text-to-Image — Generate photorealistic images from text prompts using the Cosmos 3 architecture.


















