The AI video leaderboard looks very different from 12 months ago. Native audio is now standard. Clips run for 15 to 30 seconds. An open-weights model sits in the top three.
This ranking, as of November 13, 2026, relies on one quality signal: blind human-preference Elo from the Artificial Analysis Video Arena. We pair this with API price per second and the license status of the weights. You can check deployment options and specs via our GPULeaderboard.com chrome extension.
Methodology
Quality: Artificial Analysis ranks models by Elo from blind pairwise votes by validated evaluators. Each vote compares two clips from the same prompt. We rank by the AA-Video-T2V v2.1 (with audio) board. We also report the AA-Video-I2V v2.1 score.
Anchor: Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) is fixed at 1000 Elo on both boards. A score below 1000 means voters preferred Kling 3.0 more often.
Price: Artificial Analysis lists cost per minute on each creator’s API. It normalises to 1080p where offered. We divide by 60 to get price per second. Vendor rates at 720p are often lower, and we flag those gaps.
Confidence: Most top-10 scores carry a ±13 to ±15 Elo interval. Models within ~25 points are statistically close. Treat ranks 3 to 8 as a cluster, not a strict order.
Master Comparison Table
| Rank | Model | Developer | T2V Elo (audio) | I2V Elo (audio) | $/sec | 10-sec clip | Open weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wan 3.0 | Alibaba | 1175 | 1108 | $0.200 | $2.00 | No |
| 2 | Utopai X | Utopai Studios (H3 post-train) | 1170 | 1151 | No API | — | No |
| 3 | MiniMax H3 (768p) | MiniMax | 1161 | 1133 | $0.080 | $0.80 | Yes (restricted) |
| 4 | Dreamina Seedance 2.5 | ByteDance Seed | 1155 | 1161 | $0.569 | $5.69 | No |
| 5 | Gemini Omni Flash 1.2 | 1154 | 1086 | $0.104 | $1.04 | No | |
| 6 | FLUX 3 Max | fal × Black Forest Labs | 1153 | 1068 | $0.145 | $1.45 | No |
| 7 | HeyGen Video 1 | HeyGen (H3 post-train) | 1152 | 1124 | $0.040 | $0.40 | No |
| 8 | MiniMax H3 Max | fal (H3 post-train) | 1149 | 1115 | $0.160 | $1.60 | No |
| 9 | SkyReels V4 | Skywork AI | 1137 | 1125 | $0.350 | $3.50 | No |
| 10 | FLUX 3 | Black Forest Labs | 1137 | 1071 | $0.290 | $2.90 | No (Dev promised) |
| — | Seedance 2.0 | ByteDance Seed | 1136 | 1140 | $0.374 | $3.74 | No |
| — | P-Video-2-Pro | Pruna AI × MiniMax | 1130 | 1116 | $0.095 | $0.95 | No |
| — | Pika H3 Flex | Pika (H3 post-train) | 1124 | 1114 | $0.035 | $0.35 | Yes (restricted) |
| — | Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) | Kuaishou | 1000 (anchor) | 1000 (anchor) | $0.168 | $1.68 | No |
| — | Veo 3.1 | 964 | 955 | $0.400 | $4.00 | No | |
| — | Veo 3.1 Lite | 948 | 931 | $0.080 | $0.80 | No | |
| — | LTX-2.5 Fast | Lightricks | 943 | 911 | $0.130 | $1.30 | Yes |
Source: Artificial Analysis T2V and I2V leaderboards, retrieved November 13, 2026. $/sec = AA per-minute price ÷ 60. “H3 post-train” means the model was fine-tuned from MiniMax H3’s weights.
The Rankings
1. Alibaba Wan 3.0: Best overall text-to-video
- T2V Elo: 1175 (#1) · I2V Elo: 1108 (#11)
- Price: $0.20/sec at 1080p
- Weights: Closed
Wan 3.0 holds the top text-to-video spot with 7,651 votes behind it. Alibaba launched it on August 24, 2026. It generates 30-second 1080p clips from text, PDFs and slide decks, priced at $0.20 per second.
The document-to-video input is the differentiator. You can hand it a deck and get a structured video back.
The trade-off is openness. There are no downloadable weights for Wan 3.0. Wan 2.2 (July 2025) remains Alibaba’s last open video flagship. Note the I2V gap too: Wan 3.0 drops to 11th on image-to-video.
Best for: long single takes, explainer videos from existing documents.
2. Utopai Studios Utopai X: Highest-ranked post-train, no API
- T2V Elo: 1170 (#2) · I2V Elo: 1151 (#2)
- Price: No public API
- Weights: Closed
Utopai X is the only model in the top 2 on both boards. Utopai Studios, a Mountain View film studio, built it by post-training MiniMax H3. It beats the base H3 it came from.
Access runs only through Utopai’s PAI platform. PAI charges 93 credits per second, with plans
