AI · Reference
Video Generation
Text and image to video models, from the safe Western defaults to the leaderboard leaders.
14 models · continually updated
- Google DeepMind
Veo 3.1
the safest Western default
- Kuaishou
Kling 3.0
the value leader with four top-ten entries
- ByteDance
Seedance 2.0 and 2.5
top of the leaderboard
- Runway
Runway Gen-4.5
the control surface
- OpenAI
Sora 2
the cautionary tale
- Alibaba ATH
HappyHorse 1.0
the surprise leader
- MiniMax
Hailuo 2.3
the character-motion specialist
- Luma AI
Luma Dream Machine 2.0 and Ray3
depth and volume
- Lightricks
LTX-2.3
the cleanest open licence
- Alibaba
Wan 2.7
the open workhorse
- Tencent
HunyuanVideo 1.5
open weights from a hyperscaler
- PixVerse
PixVerse V6
multi-shot for creators
- Shengshu Technology
Vidu Q3
the efficient challenger
The rest of the field
Muse Video, Pika 2.5, Grok Imagine and Marey (roundup page)