Video-edit models
Video-edit battles hand both models the same source clip and the same edit instruction — a cut, a restyle, a removal — and voters pick the edit they would keep. This tab is the shortest of the four because fewer vendors document an editing mode at all; the models here are the ones whose own pages describe editing or extending existing video, not just generating new clips.
| 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 | |
| Kuaishou | Proprietary | generally available (feature page live); early access rolled out from 2026-09-28 | 4K | 30 s | Yes | |
| Lightricks (LTX) | Open weights | Not stated | 3840x2176 | Not stated | Yes | |
| MiniMax | Open weights | 2026-07-31 | 2K | 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 | |
| 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.
Featured battles
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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
- Kuaishou — Kling 4.0, vendor documentation https://kling.ai/feature/kling-4-ai-video-generation — checked 2026-10-23
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.