Veo 3.1
A versatile model, balanced across most use cases.
Overview
Veo 3.1 is Google's proprietary video generator, producing short clips with synchronized audio straight from a text prompt. It ranks decently on the text-to-video Arena leaderboard, but ships as a closed, API-only service: no open weights, no on-premise option, and per-second pricing with no free tier that can add up fast for heavy use. Because it's only reachable through Google's US-hosted Gemini API, European teams concerned about data residency should weigh that before adopting it at scale.
Skill profile
Not disclosed
Three independent measures
What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.
Limitations
- No documented EU residency
- API pricing not disclosed
Who is it for
- you handle sensitive data with no EU option
Ideal use cases
- Ad video prototyping
- Short marketing content
- Quick animated storyboards
- Internal explainer videos
Key specifications
What it costs per month
Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.
Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.
nAIvigate Trust Index
What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.
8/20 criteria documented · 40 % · provisional: 50 % documented criteria or fewer
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[](https://naivigate.com/en/model/veo-3-1)Data & compliance
What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.
| EU data residency | Not documented |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | Not documented |
| Transfer outside the EU | Not documented |
| Training on your data | Not documented |
| Configurable retention | Not documented |
| Zero Data Retention | Not documented |
| Self-hostable | No |
| Declared hosting | US |
Quality of this card’s data
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1/6 documented · 0/6 primary sources
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| Context window | missing | |
| Arena Elo | missing | |
| Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…) | missing | |
| Licence | nAIvigate assessment | |
| Data & compliance | missing |
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