Image-to-video models
Image-to-video battles will start both models from the same source frame, so voters compare animation quality rather than prompt interpretation. The models below all advertise an image-to-video mode in their vendor documentation. What a specification table cannot tell you is how well a model holds subject identity once it starts moving — that is exactly the question the vote is for.
| Model | Vendor | Licence | Release | Max resolution | Max duration | Native audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proprietary | 2026-08 | 4K | 10 s | Yes | ||
| xAI | Proprietary | 2026-06-16 | 1080p | 15 s | Yes | |
| Tencent | Open weights | 2025-11-20 | 1080p | 10 s | No | |
| Kuaishou | Proprietary | generally available (feature page live); early access rolled out from 2026-09-28 | 4K | 30 s | Yes | |
| Kuaishou | Proprietary | 2026-02-06 | 4K | 15 s | Yes | |
| Lightricks (LTX) | Open weights | Not stated | 3840x2176 | Not stated | Yes | |
| MiniMax | Open weights | 2026-07-31 | 2K | 15 s | Yes | |
| PixVerse | Proprietary | 2026-03 | 1080p | 15 s | Yes | |
| Luma AI | Proprietary | 2026-06-09 | 1080p | 20 s | Not stated | |
| Runway | Proprietary | 2025-12-01 | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | |
| ByteDance (Seed) | Proprietary | 2026-02-12 | Not stated | 15 s | Yes | |
| ByteDance (Seed) | Proprietary | 2026-07-31 | Not stated | 30 s | Yes | |
| Google DeepMind | Proprietary | 2025-10-15 | 4K | 8 s | Yes | |
| Google DeepMind | Proprietary | 2026-04 | Not stated | Not stated | Yes | |
| ShengShu Technology | Proprietary | Not stated | 1080p | 16 s | Yes | |
| Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) | Proprietary | 2026-08-24 | 1080P | 30 s | Yes |
Sorted alphabetically — this is a catalogue, not a ranking, and the arena has no votes. The licence column is abbreviated; each model page states the full licence, including the community licence name and download location for open-weights models. Maximum resolution and duration are the ceilings the vendor advertises, not defaults. “Not stated” means the vendor page does not publish the value.
What the Artificial Analysis image-to-video board shows
Artificial Analysis publishes its own image-to-video leaderboard, built from blind comparisons by a recruited human panel: voters see two clips animated from the same source image and pick the one they prefer. When we checked it on 6 October 2026, MiniMax H3 Max was in first place, followed by MiniMax H3, Gemini Omni Flash, Dreamina Seedance 2.0 720p and HiDream-O1-Video-1.0.[17]
Those positions are theirs, not ours, and so are the names: they are reproduced exactly as Artificial Analysis lists them on that board. Not all of them are publicly released models covered by our catalogue — a board entry is not evidence that a model is generally available, and where our own vendor check could not confirm availability the model is not in the table above. Our arena has no real votes yet, and that table is a vendor-sourced catalogue rather than a ranking. We don't copy their scores, intervals, sample counts or full table here; the complete board, with every model it covers, is on their site.
Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai), image-to-video leaderboard, checked 2026-10-06. This summary was written by AI Video Arena; it is not reviewed or endorsed by Artificial Analysis.
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Sources
- Google — Gemini Omni Flash, vendor documentation https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-omni-flash — checked 2026-10-06
- xAI — Grok Imagine Video 1.5, vendor documentation https://docs.x.ai/developers/model-capabilities/video/generation — checked 2026-10-23
- Tencent — HunyuanVideo-1.5, vendor documentation https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5 — checked 2026-10-06
- Kuaishou — Kling 4.0, vendor documentation https://kling.ai/feature/kling-4-ai-video-generation — checked 2026-10-23
- Kuaishou — Kling VIDEO 3.0, vendor documentation https://kling.ai/quickstart/klingai-video-3-model-user-guide — checked 2026-10-06
- Lightricks (LTX) — LTX-2.5, vendor documentation https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.5 — checked 2026-10-06
- MiniMax — MiniMax H3, vendor documentation https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 — checked 2026-10-06
- PixVerse — PixVerse V6, vendor documentation https://pixverse.blog/en/updates/pixverse-launches-v6-advancing-ai-video-generation/ — checked 2026-10-06
- Luma AI — Ray3.2, vendor documentation https://lumalabs.ai/news/introducing-ray-3-2 — checked 2026-10-06
- Runway — Runway Gen-4.5, vendor documentation https://runway.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5 — checked 2026-10-06
- ByteDance (Seed) — Seedance 2.0, vendor documentation https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_0 — checked 2026-10-06
- ByteDance (Seed) — Seedance 2.5, vendor documentation https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5 — checked 2026-10-06
- Google DeepMind — Veo 3.1, vendor documentation https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-veo-3-1-and-new-creative-capabilities-in-the-gemini-api/ — checked 2026-10-06
- Google DeepMind — Veo 3.1 Lite, vendor documentation https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models — checked 2026-10-06
- ShengShu Technology — Vidu Q3, vendor documentation https://www.vidu.com/vidu-q3 — checked 2026-10-06
- Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) — Wan3.0, vendor documentation https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/news/product/video-generation-model-wan30-officially-launched-nsb — checked 2026-10-06
- Artificial Analysis — image-to-video leaderboard https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/image-to-video — checked 2026-10-06
Each [n] above is the vendor page the fact beside the marker was read from, on the date shown. Where a vendor states nothing, the table says “Not stated” and no value is inferred from anywhere else.