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Artificial AnalysisText-to-video arenaArenaText-to-video arena

Text-to-video arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published January 9, 2026

Best video
veo-3.1-fast-audioGoogle1,375Score
Best open model
kandinsky-5.0-t2v-proKandinsky1,193Score
Best from China
wan2.5-t2v-previewAlibaba1,267Score
Most voted
veo-3-fast-audioGoogle24,043Votes
Top three by Score
1veo-3.1-fast-audioGoogle1,375
2veo-3.1-audioGoogle1,372
3veo-3-fast-audioGoogle1,360
Top three open models
1kandinsky-5.0-t2v-proKandinsky · #16 overall1,193
2hunyuan-video-1.5Tencent · #18 overall1,193
3wan-v2.2-a14bAlibaba · #22 overall1,126
This week's changes
GPT Image 1.5 (high)Image · #1New
FLUX.2 [max]Image · #3New
Kling O1 ProVideo · #9New
Kling 2.6 Pro (No Audio)Video · #10New
Imagen 4 UltraImage · #12New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—veo-3.1-fast-audioClosedGoogle1,375±147,351
2—veo-3.1-audioClosedGoogle1,372±137,251
3—veo-3-fast-audioClosedGoogle1,360±1224,043
4—sora-2-proClosedOpenAI1,348±166,165
5—veo-3-audioClosedGoogle1,348±1217,582
6—sora-2ClosedOpenAI1,322±146,982
7—veo-3ClosedGoogle1,255±1213,479
8—veo-3-fastClosedGoogle1,249±1213,804
9—ray-3ClosedLuma AI1,205±221,096
10—veo-2ClosedGoogle1,163±157,240
11—soraClosedOpenAI1,066±134,601
12—ray2ClosedLuma AI1,062±165,739
13—pika-v2.2ClosedPika1,007±146,611

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026
64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi

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Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.