Haiper AI shut its consumer video app in February 2025. The honest 2026 guide to where Haiper users should go — and why a content engine beats a single text-to-video tool.
If you searched "Haiper AI alternative," there is a good chance you already hit the wall: Haiper's consumer video app shut down in February 2025, without warning. The text-to-video tool you remember — sign up, type a prompt, get a short cinematic clip — is gone. The model itself was sold to NetMind.AI and now lives inside an enterprise B2B API, and the founders left for Microsoft. None of that helps a creator who just wants to make and post video.
So this is not the usual "feature-by-feature, here's why we win" comparison, because there is no live Haiper consumer product to compare against. This page is the honest answer to the real question: where do you go now, and how do you avoid getting burned the same way again?
The lesson Haiper taught is the one worth acting on. A single AI video app — however good the model — is a single point of failure. Build your whole posting routine on one consumer generator and you inherit its roadmap, its pricing changes, and its shutdown risk. Kompozy is a different shape of tool: a content engine that generates video through several providers under the hood and publishes it across nine platforms, so no one model going dark can take your workflow with it.
Everything below is grounded in what's verifiable in 2026. Haiper's status is reconciled against the February 2025 shutdown reporting and the NetMind acquisition; Kompozy pricing is ours as of the lastVerified date.
Haiper AI was a London-built AI video generator, founded in 2021 by two former Google DeepMind researchers and out of stealth in March 2024 with a $13.8M seed round. Its product turned a text prompt or a still image into a short clip — text-to-video, image-to-video, and video extension, in clips of around six seconds. Haiper 2.0 (October 2024) added templates, an HD upscaler, and keyframe control; a 2.5 model and API followed in December 2024 with a VEED integration. Then the consumer business closed in February 2025. The cofounders joined Microsoft AI in March 2025, and by mid-2025 the video models were sold to NetMind.AI for enterprise inference. As of 2026, "what Haiper does" for a creator is: nothing you can sign up for. The model is reachable only through NetMind's B2B platform, not a consumer app. That is the honest baseline this comparison starts from.
You are not considering an alternative — you need one, because the product no longer exists for creators. The useful framing is what to look for in the replacement. If you want a like-for-like text-to-video model, there are several live options in 2026 and any of them will render a clip. But that just re-creates the exact dependency that stranded you: one app, one model, one company's runway. The more durable question is what carries the rest of the job — captions, reframing for each platform, turning one clip into a week of posts, and actually publishing — because Haiper never did any of that. It made a clip and stopped. That gap is the reason to look at a content engine rather than another point tool. Kompozy generates video itself (talking-head avatar shorts, clipped shorts from long-form, listicle videos over stock footage) through multiple providers, so it is not betting your output on a single model's survival. And it owns everything downstream of the clip that Haiper left to you.
| Feature | Haiper AI | Kompozy | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live, usable consumer product in 2026 | No — app shut down Feb 2025 | Yes | Haiper's model is now NetMind B2B-only; there is no creator sign-up. |
| Text-to-video / image-to-video generation | Was a core strength (now offline) | Yes | Kompozy generates video via HeyGen, Pexels b-roll, and composite pipelines. |
| Talking-head / avatar video | No | Yes | Persona Shorts and Persona HeyGen — net-new avatar video Haiper never made. |
| Clip detection (long-form to shorts) | No | Yes | Kompozy finds and cuts shorts from a long video; Haiper only generated from prompts. |
| Auto-captions / burned-in subtitles | No | Yes | Branded captions on every short. Haiper output a raw clip with no captions. |
| Per-platform reframing (9:16, 1:1, 16:9) | Partial — aspect options at render | Yes | Kompozy reframes one clip for each destination automatically. |
| Image, carousel, and quote-graphic generation | Partial — stills only | Yes | Kompozy spans Photo Posts, Carousels, Quote Graphics, Persona Tweets. |
| Text / blog / newsletter generation | No | Yes | Same source fans out to a blog draft and newsletter; Haiper was video-only. |
| Brand-voice governance (Persona Brief) | No | Yes | Tone, banned phrases, audience per workspace. Haiper had no copy layer. |
| Multi-platform scheduling & publishing | No | Yes | Publishes to 9 platforms. Haiper exported a file; you uploaded it yourself. |
| Provider redundancy (no single-model dependency) | No — one in-house model | Yes | Kompozy routes across providers, so one model going dark does not stop output. |
| Tier | Haiper AI plan | Haiper AI price | Kompozy plan | Kompozy price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | Haiper (consumer) | Discontinued — no longer sold | Kompozy Creator | $49/mo (2,500 credits) |
| Mid | Haiper API (via NetMind) | B2B / enterprise — contact NetMind.AI | Kompozy Pro | $299/mo (18,000 credits) |
| Top | Not applicable | No consumer tier exists | Kompozy Enterprise | Custom (sales-led) |
Here's the honest pitch. Haiper was a good model attached to a fragile product, and the product is what failed you. The model made a clip; everything that turns a clip into a posted result — captions, reframing, fan-out, scheduling, publishing — was always your problem, and now even the clip is gone.
Kompozy is built around the opposite bet. It is a generation-and-publishing engine, not a single model: it produces video through HeyGen avatars, clipped shorts, listicle videos, and composites; images through gpt-image and Gemini face-lock; and copy through Claude and OpenAI — then publishes the lot across nine platforms with scheduling and autopilot. No single provider going dark takes your workflow with it, because the engine routes around it.
If you were a Haiper user, start on Kompozy Creator at $49/mo (2,500 credits) and rebuild your posting routine on something that owns the whole pipeline instead of one render step. Bring your own API keys on either tier to run at provider cost. The point is not to find another tool that can disappear — it is to own the engine that outlives any one model.
Not as a creator. Haiper shut down its consumer video app in February 2025. The model was sold to NetMind.AI and is reachable only through their enterprise B2B API, so there is no consumer sign-up to use. If you want to generate video, you need a live alternative.
It depends on the job. For a raw text-to-video clip, any current generator works. But if your goal is publishing consistently, a content engine like Kompozy is the more durable pick — it generates video itself, owns captions and reframing and scheduling, and publishes to nine platforms, so a single model's shutdown can't strand you the way Haiper did.
Not exactly, and that's the point. Kompozy generates video through several methods — talking-head Persona Shorts, clipped shorts from long-form, listicle videos over stock footage, marketing-short composites — and then captions, reframes, schedules, and publishes them. Haiper only generated a clip; Kompozy owns the whole path to a posted result.
Haiper closed its consumer business in February 2025 and pivoted away from the creator product. In March 2025 its cofounders joined Microsoft AI, reported as a talent move, and by mid-2025 its video models were sold to NetMind.AI for enterprise use. The consumer surface was discontinued in the process.
No tool is shutdown-proof, but Kompozy is structurally more resilient than a single-model app. It routes generation across multiple providers and owns the publishing layer, so if any one model or provider goes offline, the engine and your scheduled output keep working. That redundancy is the specific lesson from Haiper.