Benchmark
Animation and 3D leaderboard
Board: Overall · Hands · Faces · Liquids · On-screen text · Multi-shot · Lip-sync · Camera · Animals · Style · Image to video · Animation
Look: Realism · Animation and 3D
Animation and 3D adds the anime walk and claymation tests from the core battery to the animation set: 2D cartoon, anime and 3D feature looks. Sora 2 was retired before the animation set was added, so it has no clips on it and is left off this view.
Round: all · v1-vivix-2026-10 · v1-2026-10 · v1-2026-09 · anim1-2026-10
Clip shown: every model here on the same prompt, “anim-walk-cycle”, so the preview is a fair comparison, not a cherry-picked best clip.
| # | Model | Clip | Overall | 95% CI | Fidelity | Visual | Physics | Consistency | Audio | Attempts | Gen (s) | $/run | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.90 | ±0.13 | 4.92 | 4.92 | 4.63 | 5.00 | — | — | 75 | — | 6 | ||
| 2 | 4.89 | ±0.14 | 4.83 | 5.00 | 4.92 | 4.83 | 4.80 | — | — | — | 6 | ||
| 3 | ByteDance |
4.82 | ±0.27 | 4.42 | 5.00 | 4.88 | 4.92 | — | 2.00 | 292 | — | 6 | |
| 4 | MiniMax |
4.79 | ±0.41 | 4.75 | 4.92 | 4.50 | 4.83 | — | — | 448 | — | 6 | |
| 5 | Black Forest Labs |
4.70 | ±0.29 | 4.50 | 4.92 | 4.38 | 4.83 | — | 1.00 | 65 | $1.360 | 6 | |
| 6 | xAI |
4.68 | ±0.27 | 4.67 | 5.00 | 4.25 | 4.58 | — | 1.00 | 85 | — | 6 | |
| 7 | Vivix |
4.68 | ±0.32 | 4.33 | 4.92 | 4.63 | 4.75 | — | 1.00 | 16 | $0.053 | 6 | |
| 8 | Kuaishou |
4.67 | ±0.42 | 4.42 | 4.92 | 4.38 | 4.75 | — | 1.00 | 190 | — | 6 | |
| 9 | ByteDance |
4.63 | ±0.48 | 4.33 | 4.92 | 4.00 | 4.92 | — | 2.00 | 233 | — | 6 | |
| 10 | Alibaba |
4.61 | ±0.34 | 4.42 | 4.92 | 4.25 | 4.67 | — | — | — | — | 6 | |
| 11 | Kuaishou |
4.61 | ±0.3 | 4.50 | 4.83 | 4.13 | 4.75 | — | — | — | — | 6 | |
| 12 | Kuaishou |
4.54 | ±0.36 | 4.47 | 4.67 | 4.32 | 4.63 | 5.00 | — | — | — | 6 | |
| 13 | Runway |
4.46 | ±0.56 | 4.55 | 4.63 | 4.42 | 4.22 | — | — | — | — | 6 | |
| 14 | MiniMax |
4.42 | ±0.56 | 4.25 | 4.67 | 4.00 | 4.42 | — | — | 300 | — | 6 | |
| 15 | PixVerse |
4.14 | ±0.6 | 3.75 | 4.55 | 3.88 | 4.38 | — | — | — | — | 6 |
Attempts is the average number of generations needed before one was usable, the number that actually decides what a model costs you. 95% CI is computed from that model's own runs on this board, not assumed. On a category board with only 4 runs per model, a wide CI is the honest reflection of a small sample, not a bug. Two models whose CIs overlap are not meaningfully different at this sample size.
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Genativity. (2026). Animation and 3D leaderboard: AI video models ranked. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://genativity.com/leaderboard/animated<a href="https://genativity.com/leaderboard/animated">Animation and 3D leaderboard: AI video models ranked</a> (Genativity)Frequently asked
Which AI video model is best at Animation and 3D right now?
As of 23 October 2026, Google Veo 3.1 by Google ranks #1 on Animation and 3D on Genativity's benchmark, scoring 4.90/5 across 6 scored runs (±0.13 at 95% confidence).