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Benchmark

AI video model leaderboard

Every model runs the same 40 prompts. 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

Round: all · v1-vivix-2026-10 · v1-2026-10 · v1-2026-09 · anim1-2026-10

Clip shown: every model here on the same prompt, “camera-orbit-subject”, so the preview is a fair comparison, not a cherry-picked best clip.

#ModelClipOverall95% CIFidelity VisualPhysicsConsistency AudioAttemptsGen (s) $/runRuns
1 Kling 3.0 Turbo
Kuaishou
4.84 ±0.11 4.72 4.88 4.78 4.84 5.00 — — — 40
2 Seedance 2.0
ByteDance
4.84 ±0.15 4.79 4.90 4.59 5.00 5.00 — 267 — 39
3 Google Gemini Omni
Google
4.82 ±0.12 4.81 4.87 4.80 4.81 4.82 — — — 40
4 MiniMax H3
MiniMax
4.79 ±0.22 4.78 4.86 4.34 5.00 5.00 — 448 — 40
5 Seedance 2.5
ByteDance
4.79 ±0.15 4.69 4.88 4.69 4.80 5.00 2.00 233 — 39
6 OpenAI Sora 2 discontinued
OpenAI
4.76 ±0.17 4.74 4.84 4.25 5.00 5.00 1.00 217 — 40
7 Grok Video
xAI
4.72 ±0.16 4.70 4.80 4.44 4.71 5.00 1.00 85 — 40
8 Google Veo 3.1
Google
4.63 ±0.26 4.59 4.74 4.25 4.81 4.38 — 120 — 40
9 Runway Gen-4.5
Runway
4.57 ±0.16 4.48 4.65 4.50 4.65 — — — — 40
10 PixVerse v5.5
PixVerse
4.52 ±0.18 4.30 4.68 4.49 4.63 — — — — 40
11 Kling 3.0
Kuaishou
4.47 ±0.2 4.31 4.68 3.97 4.82 — 1.00 190 — 40
12 MiniMax Hailuo 02
MiniMax
3.90 ±0.47 3.84 4.14 3.59 4.50 0.00 — 300 — 40

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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Frequently asked

Which AI video model ranks #1 right now?

As of 23 October 2026, Kling 3.0 Turbo by Kuaishou ranks #1 overall on Genativity's benchmark, scoring 4.84/5 across 40 scored runs (±0.11 at 95% confidence).