Text- & image-to-video
Video Models
Text- and image-to-video generators — cinematic quality, native audio and budget options, compared by cost per second.
MiniMax H3
The first major open-weight video model with native stereo audio — a 33B omni-modal transformer generating 4–15s clips at up to 2K resolution from text, image, video and audio references.
FLUX 3
BFL's unified multimodal model — video (up to 20s with native audio), image, and action prediction from one set of weights, built on Self-Flow. Video GA as of August 4, 2026.
Seedance 2.5
ByteDance's long-sequence video model — native 30-second single-shot clips, native 4K, up to 50 multimodal reference assets, phoneme-level lip-sync and one-pass synced audio.
PixVerse V6
The best free pick for short-form video — multi-shot character consistency, native audio and 20+ cinematic lens controls, with daily free credits.
Kling 3.0
A top value-for-performance video model — excellent human motion and face consistency, native 4K output and multilingual audio.
Veo 3.1
Google's cinematic video model with native audio — the quality leader for polished, sound-synced clips, billed per second on the Gemini API.
Runway Gen-4.5
The professional's video model — rich creative controls like motion brush and camera moves, built into a mature editorial toolset.
Wan 3.0
Alibaba's unified video generation model — 30-second single-pass clips, multimodal inputs including documents and web pages, $0.05–$0.20/sec API pricing.
MAGI-2 Preview
Sand.ai's open-source 114B MoE video model — generates 10-second clips with synchronized audio using just 6B active parameters per token. Apache 2.0.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5
xAI's dedicated video generation model — native 1080p, 6–15 seconds with synced audio, image/voice references, built on the Aurora autoregressive engine.
Wan 2.7
Alibaba's flagship video model — 1080p with native audio sync, first/last-frame and multi-scene controls, from the Wan series whose open-source lineage made it the community base.
Seedance 2.0
A multimodal-control video model built for e-commerce and reference-heavy jobs — strong image-to-video fit, motion physics and multi-asset input.
Hailuo 2.3
The budget speed champion of AI video — the lowest cost per second and fast turnaround, ideal for drafts and high-volume social content.
Sora 2
OpenAI's video model known for physics realism and synchronized audio, available through ChatGPT and the API.