Veo 3.1
Vendor-sourced facts
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Google DeepMind [1] |
| Licence | Proprietary (API/app only) [1] |
| Licence detail | API only (Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI); no downloadable weights [1] |
| Modes | Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Video edit [1] |
| Release | 2025-10-15 [1] |
| Max resolution | 4K [1] |
| Max clip duration | 8 s [1] |
| Native audio | Yes [1] |
| Access | API, web app [1] |
| Vendor page | https://deepmind.google/models/veo/ [1] |
Arena rating: no votes yet. Nothing on this page is a score, a rank or a measurement by us — every value is what Google DeepMind publishes, with the page it came from listed under Sources.
On Design Arena's video board Veo 3.1 appears as “Veo 3.1”: Elo 1169 · #21 of 48 · win rate 59.7% ± 0.7% · 18,087 votes (10,799W 7,288L) · avg 52.4s.[2] These are their voters' numbers, not this arena's — our own arena has no votes yet.
Source: Design Arena (designarena.ai/leaderboard/video), checked 2026-10-21.
About Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1 is Google DeepMind's flagship video model and the oldest entry in this catalogue by release date — October 2025 — which in this field makes it a known quantity rather than a preview. It is API-only: Google ships it through the Gemini API, AI Studio and Vertex AI, and publishes no downloadable weights, so every generation runs on Google's infrastructure under Google's terms. [1]
The specification worth noticing is the shape of the trade: 4K output and native audio, but a stated maximum clip length of eight seconds — the shortest ceiling in this catalogue. [1] A model that writes its own dialogue and sound effects into an eight-second shot is built for cut-down, cinematic beats rather than long takes, and that is exactly the kind of difference a blind vote on a shared prompt should expose.
“The models now generate richer native audio, from natural conversations to synchronized sound effects, and offer greater narrative control”
Google DeepMind on Veo 3.1 [1]
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Sources
- 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
- Design Arena — video leaderboard https://www.designarena.ai/leaderboard/video — checked 2026-10-21
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.