fal: downloads
What fal documents about what the finished download is: generated media served as public URLs from its CDN, with the storage time set per request. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
Generated media files are stored on the CDN and served as public URLs.
fal, documentation: media expiration
- RetentionGenerated media served as public URLs from its CDN, with the storage time set per request
1Tools with the same reading
No other tool in the register documents it this way.
Developer documentation changes often; the live page has the final say.
2Why it matters in a pipeline
A link that expires is a deadline in disguise. Anything fetched through a time-limited link has to be copied to storage the team controls before the link lapses.
| Tool | Documented as |
|---|---|
| Adobe Firefly | Not documented in the docs read |
| BytePlus ModelArk | Not documented in the docs read |
| Colossyan | Not documented in the docs read |
| D-ID | A link or file that expires |
| Descript | Not documented in the docs read |
| fal | Hosted URLs kept as long as set |
| Flixly | Not documented in the docs read |
| Google Veo | A link or file that expires |
| HeyGen | A file fetched from the API |
| Higgsfield | A link or file that expires |
| invideo | Not documented in the docs read |
| Kapwing | Not documented in the docs read |
| Kling AI | A link or file that expires |
| Krea | Not documented in the docs read |
| LTX | A link or file that expires |
| Luma | Not documented in the docs read |
| MiniMax | A file fetched from the API |
| OpenAI Sora | A file fetched from the API |
| Pika | Not documented in the docs read |
| PixVerse | A file fetched from the API |
| Replicate | A link or file that expires |
| Revid | Not documented in the docs read |
| Runway | A link or file that expires |
| SceneMixer | Full-quality download and share link |
| Synthesia | A link or file that expires |
| VEED | Not documented in the docs read |
| Vidu | Not documented in the docs read |
| Wan (Alibaba Cloud) | A link or file that expires |
Inclusion rule. Every tool in the register, with or without its own page on this hook. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.