ShortGPT is an open-source AI framework that turns a script into YouTube Shorts and TikTok videos. Its code has not changed since February 2025. Here is what ShortGPT does, whether it still runs, and a way to make the same videos in your browser.
The online studio runs on the MoneyPrinterTurbo engine, not on ShortGPT code. Not affiliated with the ShortGPT author.
Two unrelated things are called ShortGPT, and search results mix them. This page is about the first one.
An open-source Python project by RayVentura for automating Shorts and TikTok videos. Also searched as Short GPT. About 8,200 GitHub stars.
“ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect” (arXiv 2403.03853) is about pruning language models. It only shares the name.
Skip to the online route: type a topic and get a narrated short with nothing to install.
ShortGPT is a Python library with a Gradio web interface. An LLM writes or edits the script, a voice engine reads it, and ShortGPT finds visuals, times the captions and renders the video. Its interface offers three jobs:
The ShortGPT authors published this walkthrough when the framework launched. It shows the ShortGPT interface producing a short from start to finish.
Video and diagram from the ShortGPT README, MIT license. They show ShortGPT itself, not videos made on this site.
With patching, yes. ShortGPT has had no code push since February 10, 2025, the day v0.3.0 came out, and 74 issues and 12 pull requests were open on November 11, 2026. People do get it running, usually after editing a file or two. These are the problems reported most.
| ShortGPT problem | What is known |
|---|---|
| The app does not start | “argument of type bool is not iterable”. Users fixed it by changing the pinned Gradio version in requirements.txt |
| Gemini requests fail | ShortGPT calls a model Google shut down on December 9, 2025. Change the model name in gpt_utils.py, or use only an OpenAI key |
| Docker build fails or hangs | While installing the Python requirements. One user got past it with the python:3.10 base image |
| Background video will not download | The default assets are YouTube links fetched with yt-dlp, so they break when YouTube changes |
| pip install shortgpt is outdated | The PyPI package dates from August 2023, far older than v0.3.0 on GitHub |
To install ShortGPT, use the Google Colab notebook from the README, or build the Docker image. Either way you bring your own keys: OpenAI or Gemini for the script, Pexels for stock footage, and ElevenLabs only if you want its voices instead of the free EdgeTTS ones.
The default branch is called stable.
git clone https://github.com/RayVentura/ShortGPT.git
cd ShortGPTOpenAI or Gemini, plus Pexels; ElevenLabs is optional.
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-key
PEXELS_API_KEY=your-keyExpect a long build and a large image. Then open http://localhost:31415.
docker build -t short_gpt_docker:latest .
docker run -p 31415:31415 --env-file .env short_gpt_docker:latestScript, AI voice, background footage, captions: the recipe ShortGPT follows, done in the browser. Real users made these eight from one line of text. Tap one to hear it.
Videos by MoneyPrinterTurbo Online users. Footage from Pexels.
Open the studio, type a topic, pick a voice, a size and a caption style, then generate and download the MP4. It takes a few minutes on a computer or a phone, with no Docker and no keys. Every setting is explained in how to use MoneyPrinterTurbo.
Sign in with Google or GitHub and describe the video in a sentence, like the description ShortGPT asks for. Or paste your own script.
Choose from 17 languages, a voice, 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1, a caption style and music.
The button shows the credit cost first. The video renders on our servers, then you download the MP4.
Not included online: video translation and dubbing, Reddit-story shorts over gameplay footage, web images laid over the short, your own model keys, and the ShortGPT Python framework itself. If you need those, install ShortGPT.
ShortGPT is free, and you pay OpenAI, Gemini or ElevenLabs for what it uses. Online, a new account gets 60 credits, about one one-minute video, and paid plans start at $9.90 a month with priority generation.
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No. shortgpt.ai and docs.shortgpt.ai are the ShortGPT documentation, not a generator. The closest official option is the Google Colab notebook in the README, which still needs your own API keys. The studio on this page is independent and is not run by the ShortGPT author.
The ShortGPT software is free under the MIT license. Making videos with ShortGPT uses an OpenAI or Gemini key and a Pexels key, and ElevenLabs if you want its voices. EdgeTTS voices and the Pexels key cost nothing; the language model is usually the part you pay for.
The ShortGPT GitHub repo is github.com/RayVentura/ShortGPT, with about 8,200 stars and 1,180 forks. Short GPT, written with a space, is the same project. The latest ShortGPT release is v0.3.0, “Gemini API Support”, from February 10, 2025.
For no install, the online studio on this page makes the same narrated stock-footage shorts as ShortGPT. For open-source projects that are still updated, MoneyPrinterTurbo and Pixelle-Video are the closest. The comparison of open-source AI video generators on this site lists 15.
ShortGPT is a Python library, so you call its content engines from your own code rather than over a hosted API. The docs show how to script a short with ContentShortEngine. There is no ShortGPT web service to send requests to.
One topic in, one finished short out. No Docker, no keys, and the first video is on us.