RANKED • CURATED

Text → Video Leaderboard

Tools with an independently verified benchmark score rank first, by that real-world score. Everything else is ranked by curated priority: quality, reliability, and unique capabilities.

RANK BY CATEGORY
REAL BENCHMARK SCORES
Seedance 2.0 [1224 ELO]
HappyHorse 1.0 [1125 ELO]
Kling AI 3.0 [1110 ELO]
#4 Veo 3.1 [1093 ELO]
#5 PixVerse [1078 ELO]
#6 Wan 2.6 Text-to-Video [1027 ELO]
#7 LTX-2 [922 ELO]
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
42 tools • curated
Rank Tool Modality Pricing
Seedance 2.0
ByteDance's Next-Gen Video Model with Native Audio-Video Joint Generation
Image → Video, Text → Video Unknown
HappyHorse 1.0
Alibaba flagship video with joint audio and multilingual lip-sync
Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video Paid
Kling AI 3.0
The frontier of cinematic video synthesis
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
4 Veo 3.1
Google's state-of-the-art video generation model
Text → Video, Image → Video Paid
5 PixVerse
Text/image-to-video with effects, transitions & swaps
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
6 Wan 2.6 Text-to-Video
Latest Wan model for text-to-video generation
Text → Video Unknown
7 LTX-2
Fast text-to-video with audio support
Text → Video Unknown
8 Seedance 2.5
30-second 4K video with native audio and up to 50 reference inputs
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
9 Sora 2
OpenAI's state-of-the-art video model with audio
Text → Video, Image → Video Paid
10 Kling AI
Text/image-to-video generation (availability varies)
Text → Video, Image → Video Unknown
11 Runway
Text/image-to-video creation suite with editing tools
Text → Video, Image → Video Paid
12 Gemini Omni
Google's unified multimodal generation model
LLMs, Text → Image, Text → Video, Text → Audio, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
13 Runway Aleph 2.0
In-context video editing model and Edit Studio
Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video Paid
14 Pika
Text/image-to-video with Pikaffects (squish, melt, explode)
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
15 HeyGen
Avatar and talking-head video generation
Text → Video Enterprise
16 Synthesia
AI avatar video creation for teams
Text → Video Enterprise
17 D-ID
Talking avatar videos from images and scripts
Image → Video, Text → Video Enterprise
18 Hunyuan Video 1.5
Tencent's latest text-to-video model
Text → Video Unknown
19 Luma Ray 3.2
Controllable cinematic video model with multi-keyframe direction and motion transfer
Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video Freemium
20 NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Nano
Efficient 8B physical-AI omni-model for workstations
Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → 3D Free
21 NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge
4B physical-AI omni-model for real-time edge robotics
Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → 3D Free
22 MiniMax H3
Open general-purpose multimodal video generation model
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
23 Runway Gen-4.5
The industry standard for cinematic AI video generation
Text → Video, Image → Video Paid
24 Luma Dream Machine v2
High-speed, high-realism video generation
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
25 Pika 2.0
The creative suite for physics-defying video effects
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
26 Seedance 1.5 pro
Cinematic audio-video joint generation with lip-sync and dialect support
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
27 Seedance 1.0
Fast, inference-efficient 1080p video with native multi-shot storytelling
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
28 Pika 2.2
Pika's refined model with stronger realism and camera control
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
29 Kling 3.0 Master
Premium tier of Kling 3.0 with best quality
Text → Video, Image → Video Paid
30 Runway Gen-4
Runway's next-generation model for consistent characters and camera
Text → Video, Image → Video Paid
31 Wan 2.0
Earlier open-source Wan video generation model
Text → Video, Image → Video Free
32 Kling 2.5
Improved physics and expressive movement in Kling video
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
33 Veo 2
Google's high-quality 1080p video generation model
Text → Video, Image → Video Paid
34 Kling 2.0
Kling's standard model for cinematic video
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
35 Pika 1.5
Pika's upgrade with improved motion and effects
Text → Video, Image → Video, Video → Video Freemium
36 Runway Gen-3 Alpha Turbo
Faster, cheaper Gen-3 Alpha for rapid video iteration
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
37 Kling 1.5
Kling's first widely available video generation model
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
38 Pika 1.0
Pika's first public video generation model
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
39 Runway Gen-2
Runway's first generation of text- and image-to-video
Text → Video, Image → Video Freemium
40 NVIDIA Cosmos 3
Open physical-AI omnimodel for robotics and AV
Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → 3D Free
41 Descript
Audio/video editing with AI features
Text → Audio, Text → Video Freemium
42 FLUX 3
Multimodal model generating image, video and audio from one set of weights
Text → Image, Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → Audio Paid
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