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Benchmark

Animation and 3D leaderboard

Every model runs the same 6 prompts on this board. A vision model scores each clip blind against the original prompt in a single pass, across visual fidelity, physics and motion, subject consistency, prompt adherence and audio sync. Scores are out of 5, and the 95% CI column shows how much a score could plausibly move on a re-run with this few samples. Full methodology.

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.

#ModelClipOverall95% CIFidelity VisualPhysicsConsistency AudioAttemptsGen (s) $/runRuns
1 Google Veo 3.1
Google
4.90 ±0.13 4.92 4.92 4.63 5.00 — — 75 — 6
2 Google Gemini Omni
Google
4.89 ±0.14 4.83 5.00 4.92 4.83 4.80 — — — 6
3 Seedance 2.0
ByteDance
4.82 ±0.27 4.42 5.00 4.88 4.92 — 2.00 292 — 6
4 MiniMax H3
MiniMax
4.79 ±0.41 4.75 4.92 4.50 4.83 — — 448 — 6
5 FLUX 3
Black Forest Labs
4.70 ±0.29 4.50 4.92 4.38 4.83 — 1.00 65 $1.360 6
6 Grok Video
xAI
4.68 ±0.27 4.67 5.00 4.25 4.58 — 1.00 85 — 6
7 Vivix W1 preview
Vivix
4.68 ±0.32 4.33 4.92 4.63 4.75 — 1.00 16 $0.053 6
8 Kling 3.0
Kuaishou
4.67 ±0.42 4.42 4.92 4.38 4.75 — 1.00 190 — 6
9 Seedance 2.5
ByteDance
4.63 ±0.48 4.33 4.92 4.00 4.92 — 2.00 233 — 6
10 Wan 3.0 preview
Alibaba
4.61 ±0.34 4.42 4.92 4.25 4.67 — — — — 6
11 Kling 4.0 preview
Kuaishou
4.61 ±0.3 4.50 4.83 4.13 4.75 — — — — 6
12 Kling 3.0 Turbo
Kuaishou
4.54 ±0.36 4.47 4.67 4.32 4.63 5.00 — — — 6
13 Runway Gen-4.5
Runway
4.46 ±0.56 4.55 4.63 4.42 4.22 — — — — 6
14 MiniMax Hailuo 02
MiniMax
4.42 ±0.56 4.25 4.67 4.00 4.42 — — 300 — 6
15 PixVerse v5.5
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
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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).