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AI GIF Generator

Free to startCommercial use OKNo watermark
From 21,000 tokens for a 2s loop — longer clips and non-looping types cost more

Turn a text prompt into a real animated GIF, rendered on a GPU in about a minute. Needs an account with a confirmed email and tokens to spend — GIFs run on the same paid pipeline as AI video. A free account gets 5,000 tokens a day.

How to generate a GIF

1
Sign in and confirm your email

GIFs run on the paid video pipeline, so this one tool needs a confirmed account — unlike the rest of the image tools, which work anonymously.

2
Describe the animation

Write what should move, then pick the animation type, the length (1-3 seconds) and the shape. Send your own wording — the model handles loopability for you.

3
Wait about a minute

The GIF renders on a GPU while a progress bar tracks it. When it lands you get a real animated .gif to download.

Use this tool via API

Call this tool straight from your own scripts. The endpoint follows the OpenAI REST format and signs requests with a bearer token, so client libraries you already use keep working. You are billed the same token rate as the web app.

API DocumentationGet API Key
curl
curl -X POST https://api.rewind.ai/v1/gif/generate-async \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-rewind-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt": "a cat waving its paw", "animation": "loop", "duration": "2s", "aspectRatio": "1:1"}'
# → {"id": "...", "status": "QUEUED"} — then poll GET /v1/jobs/:id
# until "COMPLETED"; the .gif is at output.urls[0].

What you can animate

Seamless loops

Smooth Loop mirrors its frames, so the last one meets the first and the GIF repeats without a visible jump. It is also the cheapest type, for exactly that reason — half the frames are the render played backwards.

Reaction GIFs

Reaction favours one readable gesture — an eye-roll, a slow clap, a shrug — that still reads at chat-thumbnail size. It plays straight through rather than mirroring, so it costs about double a loop of the same length.

Transitions and morphs

Transition / Morph carries a subject from one shape to another across the clip, keeping foreground and background separated so the middle of the blend stays legible.

Kinetic type

Animated Text moves the wording itself — letters arriving, wiping or bouncing into place — with the backend steering for legibility at small sizes.

Loading states

Loading / Spinner leans on simple geometry and even spacing, so a small element can rotate or pulse for the full length without turning into mush.

Cinemagraphs

Cinemagraph (subtle) holds the scene mostly still and moves one thing — drifting steam, a flickering sign, water catching the light. It mirrors its frames like Smooth Loop, so it loops cleanly and costs the same.

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AI GIF Generator FAQ

Not on the free daily allowance alone. A 2-second loop costs from 21,000 tokens, and a free account gets 5,000 tokens a day, so you'll need a token pack or a plan. The account itself is free.

Yes, and the email address has to be confirmed. A GIF is a short video render underneath, which costs real GPU money, so it sits behind the same check as the AI video tools. Most other image tools on Rewind.ai need no account at all.

About a minute. It's a video render, not a still image, so it's queued on a GPU and polled until it's done — you can watch the progress bar rather than guess.

Yes — a multi-frame .gif file that animates anywhere a GIF does, and downloads as .gif. It is not a still frame.

Smooth Loop and Cinemagraph mirror their frames, so they loop seamlessly and cost the least. Reaction, Transition and Animated Text play straight through, which means more frames to render and roughly double the tokens at the same length.

1, 2 or 3 seconds, and square (1:1), wide (16:9) or tall (9:16). Longer clips cost proportionally more tokens.

Yes. What you generate is yours to use for personal or commercial work — the models behind it are commercially licensed.

Short, concrete prompts describing one clear motion work best. Vague scenes with several moving subjects tend to smear across frames. If a render fails you aren't charged for it.

Not on this page. It's text-to-GIF only. To animate an image you already have, use the image-to-video tool and export from there.

Yes — POST /v1/gif/generate-async with your prompt and options, then poll /v1/jobs/:id until it reports COMPLETED. The curl example above is the whole call.

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