Video generation models ranked by quality, price and speed
Quality vs price
4 models on the frontier — nothing else is both cheaper and better.
Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Hailuo 2.3, Grok Imagine Video, HiDream-O1-Video, Gemini Omni Flash. 4 models are not plotted: Muse Video, MAGI-2 Preview, Bach-1.0 Preview, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step.
4 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge
Muse Video, MAGI-2 Preview, Bach-1.0 Preview, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step
- Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
- Evidencestrong → weak
- Estimated from other categories
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Ranking · 34 models
Price $/s of video (1080p) · Speed render s/clip
| Select to compare | Source | Details | ||||||||
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| 1 | Gemini Omni FlashFrontier | Google DeepMind | 96.9±3.0 | $0.10 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 2 | Google DeepMind | 94.3±6.3 | $0.10 | est.~91s | 2/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 3 | Alibaba Qwen | 93.8±4.1 | $0.20 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 4 | MiniMax H3Open | MiniMax | 91.1±3.0 | $0.13 | 121s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 5 | ByteDance Seed | 86.1±6.0 | $0.23 | est.~91s | 2/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 6 | HiDream-O1-VideoFrontier | HiDream.ai | 85.3±7.0 | $0.097 | est.~91s | 2/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 7 | ByteDance Seed | 83.9±3.0 | $0.15 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 8 | Black Forest Labs | 83.2±6.4 | $0.29 | est.~91s | 2/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 9 | Meta | 79.5±8.5 | — | est.~91s | 1/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 10 | SpaceXAI (xAI) | 71.9±5.0 | $0.14 | est.~91s | 3/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 11 | Alibaba Qwen | 66.5±4.1 | $0.17 | 111s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 12 | Alibaba Qwen | 65.7±3.0 | $0.22 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 13 | MAGI-2 PreviewOpen | Sand AI | 64.0±7.8 | — | est.~91s | 2/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 14 | Alibaba Qwen | 60.3±6.7 | $0.15 | est.~91s | 2/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 15 | PixVerse | 57.6±4.1 | $0.12 | est.~91s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 16 | Grok Imagine VideoFrontier | SpaceXAI (xAI) | 55.0±3.0 | $0.070 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 17 | Skywork AI | 48.9±5.7 | $0.35 | est.~91s | 3/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 18 | Alibaba Qwen | 48.9±3.2 | $0.15 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 19 | Vidu (ShengShu) | 46.5±3.2 | $0.16 | 132s | 5/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 20 | Video Rebirth | 45.8±7.8 | — | est.~91s | 1/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 21 | Google DeepMind | 45.6±3.0 | $0.40 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 22 | Kling AI (Kuaishou) | 45.1±4.1 | $0.28 | est.~91s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 23 | NVIDIA | 45.1±8.4 | — | est.~91s | 1/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 24 | Kling AI (Kuaishou) | 44.9±3.2 | $0.34 | 91s | 5/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 25 | Google DeepMind | 43.4±3.0 | $0.15 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 26 | Kling AI (Kuaishou) | 42.4±4.1 | $0.25 | 74s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 27 | Google DeepMind | 40.0±4.8 | $0.080 | est.~91s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 28 | Runway | 33.4±4.3 | $0.12 | est.~91s | 3/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 29 | LTX-2.5 FastOpen | Lightricks (LTX) | 31.4±5.0 | $0.13 | est.~91s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 30 | LTX-2.5 ProOpen | Lightricks (LTX) | 25.1±5.0 | $0.17 | est.~91s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 31 | ByteDance Seed | 25.0±3.0 | $0.20 | est.~91s | 6/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 32 | Hailuo 2.3Frontier | MiniMax | 22.1±3.4 | $0.047 | est.~91s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | |||
| 33 | Luma AI | 17.2±3.9 | $0.22 | est.~91s | 4/6 benchmarks measured | Verified | ||||
| 34 | Pika | 6.5±5.8 | $0.21 | est.~91s | 2/6 benchmarks measured | Verified |
About video generation
Text-to-video, image-to-video, and native audio. Quality is a weighted average of the benchmarks below, each rescaled so 100 = the best tracked model. Benchmarks without a published score are estimated from related ones (shown dashed). Dot fill shows the evidence: solid = strong, tinted = medium, empty ring = weak (few benchmarks measured, lab-reported only or provisional). Methodology
- AA Text-to-Video Arena(third-party)
- AA Image-to-Video Arena(third-party)
- AA Text-to-Video Arena (with audio)(third-party)
- AA Image-to-Video Arena (with audio)(third-party)
- LMArena Text-to-Video(third-party)
- LMArena Image-to-Video(third-party)
- VBench(day 0)
Day-0 (model cards) Third-party
- Fully verified
- 100%
- of 34 models