How we rank: Ranked by rated output quality, clip coherence, and audio support.
- 01
Sora 3OpenAI
Minute-long video generation with consistent characters.
- IQ
- 1372
- Rating
- 4.81 / 5
- Context
- n/a
- Price
- not published
- License
- proprietary
- 02
Veo 4.5Google DeepMind
Google's cinematic video model with native soundtracks.
- IQ
- 1368
- Rating
- 4.79 / 5
- Context
- n/a
- Price
- not published
- License
- proprietary
- 03
Veo 4Google DeepMind
DeepMind's frontier video model.
- IQ
- 1360
- Rating
- 4.80 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 04
Runway Gen-5Runway
Director-grade controllable video.
- IQ
- 1330
- Rating
- 4.70 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 05
Kling 2.0Kuaishou
The video model creators actually ship with.
- IQ
- 1322
- Rating
- 4.70 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 06
Veo 3Google DeepMind
Google's cinematic video with audio.
- IQ
- 1320
- Rating
- 4.70 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 07
Sora 2OpenAI
Cinematic video, generated.
- IQ
- 1310
- Rating
- 4.65 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 08
Hailuo 02MiniMax
Cinema-grade physics from Shanghai.
- IQ
- 1305
- Rating
- 4.60 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 09
Seedance 1ByteDance
ByteDance's frontier video model.
- IQ
- 1295
- Rating
- 4.50 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 10
Runway Gen-4Runway
Cinematic generative video.
- IQ
- 1295
- Rating
- 4.55 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 11
Dream Machine 3Luma AI
Fast, expressive video generation.
- IQ
- 1290
- Rating
- 4.50 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 12
Dream Machine 2Luma AI
Fast, fluid generative video.
- IQ
- 1268
- Rating
- 4.40 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 13
Pika 3Pika
Playful, prompt-faithful video.
- IQ
- 1265
- Rating
- 4.40 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 14
Vidu 2.0Shengshu AI
Reference-to-video, multi-shot native.
- IQ
- 1264
- Rating
- 4.40 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 15
Character-3Hedra
Audio-in, expressive avatar out.
- IQ
- 1252
- Rating
- 4.55 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 16
Step-Video T2VStepFun
Open-weights video, self-hostable.
- IQ
- 1248
- Rating
- 4.30 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Open Weights
- 17
Pika 2.1Pika
Playful, expressive video.
- IQ
- 1240
- Rating
- 4.20 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 18
Phoenix-3Tavus
Real-time conversational avatars.
- IQ
- 1238
- Rating
- 4.40 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 19
MirageCaptions
Foundation video for talking creators.
- IQ
- 1232
- Rating
- 4.40 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 20
Synthesia Express 2Synthesia
Studio avatars from a script.
- IQ
- 1230
- Rating
- 4.30 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed
- 21
LTX Video 2Lightricks
Real-time open video on one GPU.
- IQ
- 1226
- Rating
- 4.35 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Open Weights
- 22
HeyGen Avatar 4HeyGen
Talking avatars for marketing.
- IQ
- 1222
- Rating
- 4.25 / 5
- Context
- ,
- Price
- not published
- License
- Closed