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Models

Sixteen models, each with its own page of vendor-sourced facts and a link to the documentation those facts came from. Inclusion is not an endorsement and the order is alphabetical: we list a model when its vendor publishes a page describing a currently available video model, and we drop it when the vendor says the model is gone. Nothing here is rated, because nobody has voted yet.

Models listed16
Crowd votes (Design Arena board)425,931
Arena statusPre-launch
Facts checked2026-10-06
LICENCE
16/16 models shown
External crowd board · their figures, not ours

Design Arena video board at a glance

Design Arena's public crowd board has collected 425,931 votes. The first 20 models by their Elo are drawn here; the full 48-row board is quoted on the home page. Checked 2026-10-21[19].

Fig. M1 — Design Arena video board, top 20 by Elo their figures, not ours
20 of 20 shown
  1. 1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashGoogleElo 1363
  2. 2Gemini Omni FlashGoogleElo 1346
  3. 3HeyGen Video 1.0 (1080p, Ultraquality)HeyGenElo 1337
  4. 4Wan 3.0AlibabaElo 1329
  5. 5P-Video-2-Pro (Cost)Pruna AIElo 1313
  6. 6FLUX 3 MaxFalElo 1298
  7. 7FLUX 3 VideoBlack Forest LabsElo 1289
  8. 8MiniMax H3 MaxFalElo 1281
  9. 9MiniMax H3MiniMaxElo 1280
  10. 10HeyGen Video 1.0HeyGenElo 1273
  11. 11Seedance 2.5ByteDanceElo 1259
  12. 12Seedance 2.0ByteDanceElo 1255
  13. 13Seedance 2.0 MiniByteDanceElo 1255
  14. 14Seedance 2.0 FastByteDanceElo 1253
  15. 15Happy Horse 1.1AlibabaElo 1227
  16. 16Grok ImaginexAIElo 1222
  17. 17Happy Horse 1.0AlibabaElo 1212
  18. 18Veo 3 FastGoogleElo 1184
  19. 19Veo 3.1 LiteGoogleElo 1177
  20. 20Veo 3.1 FastGoogleElo 1171

Full 48-model board →

Source: Design Arena (designarena.ai/leaderboard/video), checked 2026-10-21. Bars are drawn in our own design on a 1100–1400 Elo axis and scale only within this top-20 view. Vendor marks belong to their owners.

Every model in the arena catalogue
ModelVendorLicence ReleaseMax resolution Max durationNative audio
Gemini Omni Flash[1]
GoogleProprietary2026-084K10 sYes
Grok Imagine Video 1.5[2]
xAIProprietary2026-06-161080p15 sYes
HunyuanVideo-1.5[3]
TencentOpen weights2025-11-201080p10 sNo
Kling 4.0[4]
KuaishouProprietarygenerally available (feature page live); early access rolled out from 2026-09-284K30 sYes
Kling VIDEO 3.0[5]
KuaishouProprietary2026-02-064K15 sYes
LTX-2.5[6]
Lightricks (LTX)Open weightsNot stated3840x2176Not statedYes
MiniMax H3[7]
MiniMaxOpen weights2026-07-312K15 sYes
PixVerse V6[8]
PixVerseProprietary2026-031080p15 sYes
Ray3.2[9]
Luma AIProprietary2026-06-091080p20 sNot stated
Runway Gen-4.5[10]
RunwayProprietary2025-12-01Not statedNot statedNot stated
Seedance 2.0[11]
ByteDance (Seed)Proprietary2026-02-12Not stated15 sYes
Seedance 2.5[12]
ByteDance (Seed)Proprietary2026-07-31Not stated30 sYes
Veo 3.1[13]
Google DeepMindProprietary2025-10-154K8 sYes
Veo 3.1 Lite[14]
Google DeepMindProprietary2026-04Not statedNot statedYes
Vidu Q3[15]
ShengShu TechnologyProprietaryNot stated1080p16 sYes
Wan3.0[16]
Alibaba (Tongyi Lab)Proprietary2026-08-241080P30 sYes

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.

Discontinued: Sora 2 / Sora 2 Pro (OpenAI)

OpenAI's Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro are not in the catalogue and will not appear in any battle. OpenAI notified developers on 24 March 2026 that the Videos API and the Sora 2 model aliases were deprecated, and removed them from the API on 24 September 2026[17]. The consumer Sora app and website were discontinued earlier, on 26 April 2026[18]. The entry is kept here as a historical note only: Sora 2 has no current access route and no current price, and we do not quote its former API prices as if they were live.

Crowd votes · external board

On Design Arena's video board Sora 2 / Sora 2 Pro appears as “Sora 2”: Elo 1142 · #28 of 48 · win rate 58.0% ± 0.4% · 52,022 votes (30,196W 21,826L) · avg 87.9s.[19] 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.

Image generation is a separate reference

The arena ranks video models only. For the image side we keep one referenced comparison: ten image-generation models — nine routed by the OpenRouter API plus xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 — compared on price, context window and provider, with sample outputs and every figure cited to its source.

Image models compared on OpenRouter →

Sources

  1. Google — Gemini Omni Flash, vendor documentation https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-omni-flash — checked 2026-10-06
  2. xAI — Grok Imagine Video 1.5, vendor documentation https://docs.x.ai/developers/model-capabilities/video/generation — checked 2026-10-23
  3. Tencent — HunyuanVideo-1.5, vendor documentation https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5 — checked 2026-10-06
  4. Kuaishou — Kling 4.0, vendor documentation https://kling.ai/feature/kling-4-ai-video-generation — checked 2026-10-23
  5. Kuaishou — Kling VIDEO 3.0, vendor documentation https://kling.ai/quickstart/klingai-video-3-model-user-guide — checked 2026-10-06
  6. Lightricks (LTX) — LTX-2.5, vendor documentation https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.5 — checked 2026-10-06
  7. MiniMax — MiniMax H3, vendor documentation https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 — checked 2026-10-06
  8. PixVerse — PixVerse V6, vendor documentation https://pixverse.blog/en/updates/pixverse-launches-v6-advancing-ai-video-generation/ — checked 2026-10-06
  9. Luma AI — Ray3.2, vendor documentation https://lumalabs.ai/news/introducing-ray-3-2 — checked 2026-10-06
  10. Runway — Runway Gen-4.5, vendor documentation https://runway.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5 — checked 2026-10-06
  11. ByteDance (Seed) — Seedance 2.0, vendor documentation https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_0 — checked 2026-10-06
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Google DeepMind — Veo 3.1 Lite, vendor documentation https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models — checked 2026-10-06
  15. ShengShu Technology — Vidu Q3, vendor documentation https://www.vidu.com/vidu-q3 — checked 2026-10-06
  16. 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
  17. OpenAI — Sora 2 / Sora 2 Pro, vendor documentation https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations — checked 2026-10-06
  18. OpenAI help centre — what to know about the Sora discontinuation https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001152-what-to-know-about-the-sora-discontinuation — checked 2026-10-06
  19. 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.