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MiniMax H3Seedance 2.5Wan 3.0
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Video generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 31 ranked here are greyed.

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
  • MiniMax H3
    Quality
    91.1
    Rank
    #4/34
    Price
    $0.13/s
    Speed
    121s

    vs Wan 3.0: −2.7 quality · 0.65× price

  • Seedance 2.5
    Quality
    86.1
    Rank
    #5/34
    Price
    $0.23/s
    Speed
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    vs Wan 3.0: −7.7 quality · 1.2× price

  • Wan 3.0
    Quality
    93.8
    Rank
    #3/34
    Price
    $0.20/s
    Speed
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    vs MiniMax H3: +2.7 quality · 1.5× price

Overview

Metric
MiniMax H3
Seedance 2.5
Wan 3.0
Lab
MiniMax
ByteDance Seed
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Jul 30, 2026
Jul 31, 2026
Aug 19, 2026
Weights
Open
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per second
1080p
$0.13Best
$0.23
$0.20
Render time
per clip
121s
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Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
MiniMax H3
Seedance 2.5
Wan 3.0
Video generation
91.1±3.0
#4/34Verified
86.1±6.0
#5/34Verified
93.8±4.1Best
#3/34Verified

Video generation benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
MiniMax H3
Seedance 2.5
Wan 3.0
AA Text-to-Video Arena
third-party
#3/251302Verified
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1332
  3. #3MiniMax H31302
  4. #4HappyHorse-1.01286
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#4/26~1294Estimated
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #3MiniMax H31302
  3. ~#4Seedance 2.5Estimated1294
  4. #4HappyHorse-1.01286
estimated from related benchmarks
#1/251335BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1332
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image-to-Video Arena
third-party
#3/261357Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #2Wan 3.0Few votes1361
  3. #3MiniMax H31357
  4. #4Seedance 2.01340
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#4/27~1341Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #3MiniMax H31357
  3. ~#4Seedance 2.5Estimated1341
  4. #4Seedance 2.01340
estimated from related benchmarks
#2/261361BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #2Wan 3.0Few votes1361
  3. #3MiniMax H31357
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Text-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#3/221220Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #2Wan 3.01230
  3. #3MiniMax H31220
  4. #4Seedance 2.01210
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#5/23~1202Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #4Seedance 2.01210
  3. ~#5Seedance 2.5Estimated1202
  4. #5MAGI-2 Preview1156
estimated from related benchmarks
#2/221230BestVerified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #2Wan 3.01230
  3. #3MiniMax H31220
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#1/231181BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1177
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#6/24~1158Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #5Wan 3.01164
  3. ~#6Seedance 2.5Estimated1158
  4. #6HappyHorse-1.11106
estimated from related benchmarks
#5/231164Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #4Seedance 2.01174
  3. #5Wan 3.01164
  4. #6HappyHorse-1.11106
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Video
third-party
#7/171460Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #6Seedance 2.51474
  3. #7MiniMax H31460
  4. #8Muse VideoFew votes1456
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#6/171474Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
  3. #6Seedance 2.51474
  4. #7MiniMax H31460
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#5/171476BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #4Seedance 2.01479
  3. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
  4. #6Seedance 2.51474
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image-to-Video
third-party
#1/191495BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #2Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1488
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#4/191477Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #3Wan 3.0Few votes1480
  3. #4Seedance 2.51477
  4. #5Seedance 2.01475
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#3/191480VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #2Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1488
  3. #3Wan 3.0Few votes1480
  4. #4Seedance 2.51477
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
VBench
day 0
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