OpenAI’s Sora 2 is the company’s new top-line Video and Audio Generation Model, which drives a standalone Sora app crafted for generating short polished clips from text prompts. There is high demand, and so you’ll see people asking for an invite code. Well, here’s the truth: access is going in stages, and there is no publicly available “master code” to unlock the app. The invitation to join your account will be sent via a push notification on the official app.
What Sora 2 brings to OpenAI video and audio creation
Sora 2 brings native sound and deeper realism to OpenAI’s video toolset, as well as a Cameo feature that can drop you or friends into created scenes — assuming the company has your consent. Early demos released by OpenAI show smoother motion, better handling of lighting and textures, and more coherent camera moves — critical advances that give clips a less synthetic feel. Industry researchers, including at Stanford HAI and Epoch AI, have observed that generative video takes vastly more compute than still images do, so we expect phased access as capacity scales.
- What Sora 2 brings to OpenAI video and audio creation
- Where the Sora app is offered and current availability
- How the invite code system works and what to expect
- Steps to request Sora 2 access on the iOS app
- Pricing, initial availability, and usage limits at launch
- What to Cook Right Now With Sora 2 and Cameo Features
- Ways You Can Increase Your Chances And Do So Fairly
- Safety and policy notes for using Sora 2 responsibly
- Bottom line on how to receive an invite for Sora 2 access

Where the Sora app is offered and current availability
The Sora iOS app is live to start in the United States and Canada. In the app, you can sign up for a push notification when your account has been cleared for access. Viewing the listing from a region outside those? Then you likely don’t have it yet, and there’s no official timeline for every market. OpenAI maintains that it plans to grow fast, but — as with past open betas like DALL·E and GPT-4 — regional availability typically grows in stages.
How the invite code system works and what to expect
There is no all-encompassing invitation code for you to type in and skip the line. Access is linked to your OpenAI account. OpenAI will push a notification as soon as it activates your account after you register in-app. Once you’ve been invited, you can also use it in a browser with your account on the official Sora website. ChatGPT Pro subscribers are expected to have access to a more experimental, higher-quality Sora 2 Pro model on the web and soon right within the Sora app.
Steps to request Sora 2 access on the iOS app
- Download the Sora app for iOS in a supported region.
- Log in with your OpenAI account and click on the in-app waitlist or notification prompt.
- Turn push notifications on or you might miss out on an invite alert for your account.
- Keep your account details updated and verified (email, phone) to avoid activation issues.
- Once your invite arrives, you can also use Sora 2 on the web using the same login information.
Pricing, initial availability, and usage limits at launch
OpenAI says Sora 2 will be free at first, and with significant limits so people can experiment — though total usage is subject to compute constraints. Anticipate caps to be recalibrated with the increase in user base. ChatGPT Pro subscribers will have access to the Sora 2 Pro model on the web initially, which is higher quality and with any luck more stringent quotas. It’s similar to previous OpenAI rollouts, which included free tiers for playing around and more costly ones for accessing higher fidelity or larger capacity.

What to Cook Right Now With Sora 2 and Cameo Features
Testers in early access saw better continuity and more complex scenes compared to prev-gen tools, with synchronous ambience and effects. Product teasers with dolly shots, micro-documentary cutaways with natural room tone and social promos that tie together multiple scenes all come to mind. The Cameo feature lets you cast yourself in a generated scenario — a walk on the beach at dusk, shooting the breeze from a street-food stall during golden hour — as long as, like everything else here, you follow the rules for consent and safety.
To get consistent results, craft prompts that include framing (wide shot, medium close-up, close-up), camera movement (handheld, crane move, gimbal pan), lighting conditions (soft backlight, neon glow, overcast skies) and audio ambience (city background noise, gentle surf noise, bustling café noise and so forth). These production cues give the model a more concrete blueprint, in the same way that they would for a human crew.
Ways You Can Increase Your Chances And Do So Fairly
- Turn on notifications and marketing emails in your OpenAI account so you get the invite right away.
- Update the app; new builds do seem to coincide with wider availability.
- Don’t experiment with VPN region-hopping or third-party “codes.” OpenAI links invitations to accounts and regions, and resale “codes” are a popular scam.
- If you’re a professional creator or researcher, have use cases: OpenAI has traditionally had an emphasis during the early stages on safe testers in order to get feedback and stress-test safety systems.
Safety and policy notes for using Sora 2 responsibly
OpenAI says it is limiting access to monitor risks like misinformation, nonconsensual depictions and copyright infringement. Look for such precautions as content filters, limited use of public-figure likenesses and prompts that refuse sensitive requests. If you’re using Cameo-style features, upload only footage to which you have the rights and the consent of your subject. Generative media bodies, like the Partnership on AI, have stressed the importance of consent and transparency as minimum standards for generative media.
Bottom line on how to receive an invite for Sora 2 access
Sora 2 does not have a public invite code. To test out the app, first download Sora on iOS in an eligible region, sign up for notifications, and wait for your account-specific invite to arrive. Access is free at launch with a usage limit, while ChatGPT Pro users get early access to the higher-quality Sora 2 Pro on the web and soon in-app. If you’re not part of the initial rollout, patience and a clean sign-up are the only reliable paths — disregard code resellers and keep your account ready for the push.
