What is an AI short drama?
An AI short drama is a series of very short, vertical episodes — usually one to three minutes each — where the scenes, the actors and often the voices are created with AI. The format comes from mobile micro-dramas: every episode ends on a hook, so you keep swiping to the next one. What is new is how they are made. Instead of a film crew, a writer plans the story, AI image models design the characters, and AI video models such as Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 and Seedance render each shot with movement, lighting and sound.
That makes AI short dramas fast to produce and free to experiment with genres a studio would never risk: a dragon heir hiding in a coffee shop, a time-looped wedding, a detective who is also the ghost. Quality has jumped in the last year. Faces now stay consistent from shot to shot, lips follow the dialogue, and a whole season can be finished in days.
How to watch AI short dramas here
Pick a series above, or tap “Swipe first episodes” to flick through the opening episode of every AI short drama, Douyin style, until one grabs you. Episodes play full screen and the next one starts on its own. Your place is saved, so “Continue episode” picks up where you stopped.
- Free episodes. The first episodes of each series are free to watch, usually 3, with no account and no ads.
- Unlock with credits. Later episodes cost a few credits each (typically 30). Unlock one episode, or the rest of the series in one tap. New accounts get 90 free credits.
- Watch pass. $7.99 a month opens every episode of every AI short drama on the site. Cancel any time in Plan & billing; it is also included with every plan.
Unlocked episodes stay unlocked on your account for good. Credits are the same ones you use to make videos, so they never expire and work across the whole site.
An AI short drama app without the app store
Many people search for a free AI short drama app. SiVideoGen installs from the browser instead: on Android choose “Install” or our “Get the app” button, and on iPhone tap Share, then “Add to Home Screen”. You get a full-screen player, the same account and the same free episodes, without a download from an app store or a weekly subscription you forgot about.
AI short drama vs. classic micro-drama
Classic micro-drama apps film real actors on a set and release a series once it is cut, so production is slow and most shows copy the same few plots. An AI short drama is rendered shot by shot, which keeps costs low and lets small teams try stranger ideas, period settings and fantasy worlds that would need a big budget on camera. The pacing is the same — short scenes, cliffhangers, a reveal every episode — and so is the vertical screen. What you watch here is labelled as AI-made, and each series page lists every episode that is out, in order.
Genres you will find
Romance leads, as it does across micro-dramas: second chances, secret identities, rivals who fall for each other. Revenge stories, fantasy and supernatural series, workplace and billionaire dramas, mysteries with a twist every episode and comedy all have their own shelf. Use the genre buttons above to filter the AI short drama list. New series are added as they are finished, and each has a page with its story, episode count and how many episodes are free.
How AI short dramas are made
Behind every episode is the same pipeline, and it is the one our own tools follow:
- Story and script. A writer outlines the season and breaks each episode into short scenes that end on a hook.
- Characters. An image model creates each character once — face, outfit, style — so every later shot can reuse them.
- Storyboard. Each scene becomes a list of shots with framing, action and the line being spoken.
- Shots. A video model animates every shot from its character frame, with native sound and dialogue where the model supports it.
- Edit. The shots are joined, timed and checked, and the episode is exported in 9:16 for phones.
Want to try it? Director plans the shots of a scene from a short description, renders them with the model you choose and joins them into one clip, so you can test an AI short drama idea of your own in minutes. The AI video generator makes single shots from a prompt or a photo.
AI short drama questions
Are AI short dramas free to watch?
The first episodes of every AI short drama here are free, usually 3, with no account needed. Later episodes cost 30 credits each, and new accounts get 90 free credits — enough for 3 more episodes. The Watch pass opens every episode for $7.99 a month.
Is there an AI short drama app?
You can install SiVideoGen as an app straight from your browser: on Android tap “Get the app” or “Install”, on iPhone use Share → Add to Home Screen. It opens full screen like any app, with no app store download and nothing extra to pay.
Where can I watch AI short dramas in English?
Every AI short drama on this page is in English, with the episodes in order from the first to the last. Series that live on video sites are often split, re-uploaded or missing episodes; here each drama has its own page with the full episode list.
How long is an AI short drama episode?
Most episodes run one to three minutes, shot vertically for a phone. A full series is usually between eight and thirty episodes, so you can finish one in an evening.
Can I make my own AI short drama?
Yes. Director, our AI storyboard tool, turns an idea into a shot list, renders every shot with the video model you pick and joins them into one episode. You pay credits per rendered shot.
Does a plan include the Watch pass?
Yes. Every SiVideoGen plan, from Basic at $9.90 a month, includes the Watch pass for as long as the plan is active, on top of its video credits.
Something not working, or a series you would like to see? Email support@sivideogen.com. Plans and credit packs are on the pricing page.