S 
Sora
OpenAI's text-to-video model and the social app built around generating clips.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep paying — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the video job, so this one still earns its $20/mo.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- It is the thing doing the killing. OpenAI, December 9, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? paid only
- 3 replacements listed, all paid.
- What the call is worth $240/yr
- $20/mo at the entry paid tier — $240 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked missing: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- December 9, 2025
- List price
- $20/mo
- Per year
- $240
The backstory
Sora turned OpenAI's video model into a consumer product with a feed, remixing and cameo features that put a person's likeness into generated scenes. It appears in this archive on the causing side of the ledger. A large share of the stock footage subscriptions, simple explainer tools and low-end motion graphics services people cancelled through 2026 were cancelled because a prompt produced something adequate in thirty seconds, and the floor of what anyone will pay for generic B-roll collapsed accordingly.