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Our picks come first, in the order we would recommend them, with the benchmark, the price, the licence, the builds and the news beside each one. Everything after them is ranked by its independent score.
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Clips from a prompt or an image. The arena scores lag the releases here, so some of our picks are newer than the board that would rank them.
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Seedance 2.0
First on the video arena by a clear margin, with the sound generated together with the picture.
- 1224 Elo arena #1 of 7
- 2 builds name Seedance
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Kling 4.0
Not on the arena yet. Its predecessor already scores with the leaders, and this one makes longer clips from more references.
- Not scored yet
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Veo 3.1
Google's video model: scored with the leaders on the arena, and one of the two video models named in the builds we track.
- 1093 Elo arena #4 of 7
- 2 builds name Veo
- 1 in the news ↑ from 0
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Seedance 2.530-second 4K video with native audio and up to 50 reference inputs
- Not scored yet
- 2 builds name Seedance
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HappyHorse 1.0Alibaba flagship video with joint audio and multilingual lip-sync
- 1125 Elo arena #2 of 7
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Sora 2OpenAI's state-of-the-art video model with audio
- Not scored yet
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Runway Aleph 2.0In-context video editing model and Edit Studio
- Not scored yet
- 1 build names Runway
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MiniMax H3Omni-modal video with native stereo audio, at 2K
- Not scored yet
- Open weights
- 1 build names MiniMax
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Wan 2.6 Text-to-VideoLatest Wan model for text-to-video generation
- 1027 Elo arena #6 of 7
- Open weights
Scores: Artificial Analysis Video Arena (Text-to-Video) (2026-08-05). Builds: 291 of the 422 on /builds, r/ClaudeAI left out. News: the daily briefing, 30 days to 2026-10-21.
RANK BY CATEGORY
All Tools
404tools
LLMs
152tools
IDEs & Coding Tools
75tools
Text → Image
63tools
Multimodal Reasoning
51tools
Image → Video
49tools
Text → Video
46tools
Image → Image
46tools
Text → Audio
30tools
Image → 3D
29tools
Text → 3D
28tools
AI Assistants
20tools
Video → Video
14tools
Multi-Service Platforms
13tools
Infrastructure
9tools
Agentic Browsers
7tools
REAL BENCHMARK SCORES
Source: Artificial Analysis Video Arena (Text-to-Video), as of 2026-08-05. Shown only for models with independently verified scores. Not every tool in this category has published, comparable data.
RESULTS
| Rank | Tool | Modality | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| ① |
Seedance 2.0
ByteDance's Next-Gen Video Model with Native Audio-Video Joint Generation
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Image → Video, Text → Video | Unknown |
| ② |
Kling 4.0
Kling's next video model: 30-second clips, up to 15 references and 10 keyframes
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video | Paid |
| ③ |
Veo 3.1
Google's state-of-the-art video generation model
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 4 |
Seedance 2.5
30-second 4K video with native audio and up to 50 reference inputs
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 5 |
HappyHorse 1.0
Alibaba flagship video with joint audio and multilingual lip-sync
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video | Paid |
| 6 |
Sora 2
OpenAI's state-of-the-art video model with audio
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 7 |
Runway Aleph 2.0
In-context video editing model and Edit Studio
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video | Paid |
| 8 |
MiniMax H3
Omni-modal video with native stereo audio, at 2K
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 9 |
Wan 2.6 Text-to-Video
Latest Wan model for text-to-video generation
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Text → Video | Unknown |
| 10 |
Kling AI 3.0
The frontier of cinematic video synthesis
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 11 |
PixVerse
Text/image-to-video with effects, transitions & swaps
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 12 |
LTX-2
Fast text-to-video with audio support
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Text → Video | Unknown |
| 13 |
Wan 3.0
Alibaba's all-in-one video model: text, image, video and audio in, up to 30 seconds out
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 14 |
Kling AI
Text/image-to-video generation (availability varies)
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Unknown |
| 15 |
Runway
Text/image-to-video creation suite with editing tools
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 16 |
Gemini Omni
Google's unified multimodal generation model
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LLMs, Text → Image, Text → Video, Text → Audio, Multimodal Reasoning | Freemium |
| 17 |
Pika
Text/image-to-video with Pikaffects (squish, melt, explode)
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 18 |
HeyGen
Avatar and talking-head video generation
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Text → Video | Enterprise |
| 19 |
Synthesia
AI avatar video creation for teams
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Text → Video | Enterprise |
| 20 |
D-ID
Talking avatar videos from images and scripts
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Image → Video, Text → Video | Enterprise |
| 21 |
Hunyuan Video 1.5
Tencent's latest text-to-video model
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Text → Video | Unknown |
| 22 |
Luma Ray 3.2
Controllable cinematic video model with multi-keyframe direction and motion transfer
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video | Freemium |
| 23 |
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Nano
Efficient 8B physical-AI omni-model for workstations
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → 3D | Free |
| 24 |
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge
4B physical-AI omni-model for real-time edge robotics
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → 3D | Free |
| 25 |
Runway Gen-4.5
The industry standard for cinematic AI video generation
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 26 |
Luma Dream Machine v2
High-speed, high-realism video generation
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 27 |
Pika 2.0
The creative suite for physics-defying video effects
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 28 |
Seedance 1.5 pro
Cinematic audio-video joint generation with lip-sync and dialect support
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 29 |
Seedance 1.0
Fast, inference-efficient 1080p video with native multi-shot storytelling
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 30 |
Pika 2.2
Pika's refined model with stronger realism and camera control
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 31 |
Kling 3.0 Master
Premium tier of Kling 3.0 with best quality
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 32 |
Runway Gen-4
Runway's next-generation model for consistent characters and camera
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 33 |
Wan 2.0
Earlier open-source Wan video generation model
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Free |
| 34 |
Kling 2.5
Improved physics and expressive movement in Kling video
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 35 |
Veo 2
Google's high-quality 1080p video generation model
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Paid |
| 36 |
Kling 2.0
Kling's standard model for cinematic video
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 37 |
Pika 1.5
Pika's upgrade with improved motion and effects
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video | Freemium |
| 38 |
Runway Gen-3 Alpha Turbo
Faster, cheaper Gen-3 Alpha for rapid video iteration
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 39 |
Kling 1.5
Kling's first widely available video generation model
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 40 |
Pika 1.0
Pika's first public video generation model
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 41 |
Runway Gen-2
Runway's first generation of text- and image-to-video
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 42 |
NVIDIA Cosmos 3
Open physical-AI omnimodel for robotics and AV
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → 3D | Free |
| 43 |
LTX-2.5
Open-weights video and world model, generates 10-second clips in 6.8 seconds
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Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video | Freemium |
| 44 |
Descript
Audio/video editing with AI features
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Text → Audio, Text → Video | Freemium |
| 45 |
LTX Video 2.5
Open-weight video/world model, 10s clips from images in 6.8s
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Text → Video, Image → Video | Freemium |
| 46 |
FLUX 3
Multimodal model generating image, video and audio from one set of weights
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Text → Image, Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → Audio | Paid |
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