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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash takes #1 on two Arena video boards with under 3,000 votes on each

Arena's own rank spread puts the same model as low as 5th in image-to-video, where MiniMax H3 sits 10 Elo back on 121,481 votes.

By Priya Shenoy · 12 November 2026

Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash now sits at the top of two of Arena's three video leaderboards, and on both boards the placement rests on fewer than 3,000 human votes. The text-to-video board shows it at 1540 Elo with a 95% interval of plus or minus 16, built from 1,714 votes, on a board that has collected 891,840 votes across 50 models. The image-to-video board shows 1503 Elo with a 2,666-vote sample, on a board carrying 2,505,296 votes in total.

The models directly behind it carry 20 to 70 times the sample

On image-to-video, Dreamina Seedance 2.5 at 720p sits second at 1494 from 42,724 votes, and MiniMax H3 third at 1493 from 121,481 votes. The gap between first and third is 10 Elo, and the published intervals (plus or minus 12 for the leader, plus or minus 8 and plus or minus 6 for the two below it) overlap. Arena's own rank spread column reflects that: the new leader is listed with a spread of 1 to 5, Seedance 2.5 with 1 to 7, and MiniMax H3 with 1 to 6. In other words, the board itself does not claim the order is settled.

Text-to-video is tighter at the top and thinner throughout. Google holds the first three places there, with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash second at 1513 (1,792 votes) and the older gemini-omni-flash third at 1509 on a much larger 46,707 votes. Below them, FLUX 3 Video is fourth at 1491 from 1,314 votes and Grok Imagine Video 1.5 fifth at 1488 from 1,249 votes, both with intervals near plus or minus 18 and rank spreads running to 9th and 10th. Seedance 2.0 at 720p is sixth on 72,137 votes, Wan 3.0 eighth, MiniMax H3 eleventh, and Sora 2 Pro thirteenth at 1367 from 55,965 votes.

Arena's announcement and Arena's leaderboard pages do not quite match

Arena's post announcing the debut gives 1541 points for text-to-video, 1502 for image-to-video and 1395 for third place in video edit. The leaderboard pages read 1540, 1503 and 1396. The video edit discrepancy goes further than rounding: the post places the older gemini-omni-flash fifth at 1375, while the Video Edit Arena page lists it fourth at 1380. These boards update continuously, so small drift between an announcement snapshot and a later page read is expected, but anyone citing a single number should say which of the two they took it from.

Three boards, three different refresh dates

The text-to-video and image-to-video pages are stamped November 8, 2026, while the video edit page is stamped November 10. Arena's leaderboard changelog records the model being added to all three video boards on November 9. The video edit board is also the smallest of the three, with 55,880 votes across 12 models, and the new model's third place there comes from 1,167 votes with a rank spread of 1 to 6.

Google's own description of the release, posted alongside the ranking, says the model was made more cost-effective, raised the video generation and editing limit to 15 seconds, and changed how scenes hold together over time. None of those claims carry a published measurement, which leaves the Arena placements as the main public evidence so far, on samples that will take weeks of voting to firm up. Our Gemini Omni page tracks the model against Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 on fixed prompts rather than open voting.

Sources: Arena Text-to-Video Leaderboard, Arena Image-to-Video Leaderboard, Arena Video Edit Leaderboard, Arena Leaderboard Changelog, Arena on X.

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