Video editing

• Best overallSWan 3.01,200 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)
• Best valueAMiniMax H3Tier A for $0.08/s of video
• Best free startSFLORAFree tier · from $18/mo · via Wan 3.0
• Best local (≤24 GB GPU)No qualifying option yet

• SABCTier: how close to the best result on the task's main public benchmark
• A Outlined: a tool inherits the tier of the best model it offers
• – No public result yet
• Cloud · Local: runs on your own hardware

CloudLocal

Models

The engines themselves. Use them through an API or inside the apps on the right.

Cloud

S Wan 3.0Alibaba · $0.2/s of video1,200 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)$A Seedance 2.5ByteDance (Seed) · $0.57/s of video1,155 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)A Gemini Omni Flash 1.1Google · $0.1/s of video1,149 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)$C Aleph 2.0Runway · $0.28/s of video1,014 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)– FLUX Video Edit [fast]Black Forest Labs · $0.03/s of videoNo public result yet– Grok Imagine Video 1.5xAI · $0.08/s of videoNo public result yet– Kling 4.0Kuaishou (Kling AI)No public result yet– Lucy 2.5Decart · $0.04/s of videoNo public result yet– Ray3.2Luma AINo public result yet

Local

A MiniMax H3MiniMax · Open weights1,125 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)– JoyAI-Video-Edit (DiT checkpoint 0811)JD (jd-opensource) · ~32 GB VRAMNo public result yet– LTX-2.5Lightricks · Open weightsNo public result yet– Lucy Edit 1.1 DevDecart · Open weightsNo public result yet– MatAnyone 2NTU S-Lab (Peiqing Yang et al.) · Open weightsNo public result yet– SkyReels V3Skywork AI (Kunlun Tech) · Open weightsNo public result yet– Viggle-AnimateViggle · Open weightsNo public result yet– Wan 2.2Alibaba (Wan-AI) · ~24 GB VRAMNo public result yet– Wan-Animate-2 (Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B)Alibaba (Wan-AI) · Open weightsNo public result yet

Apps

Ready-made apps with a UI: sign in or install, then start.

Cloud

S HiggsfieldHiggsfield AIvia Wan 3.0S invideo AIinvideovia Wan 3.0S KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/movia Wan 3.0$S PikaPika Labs · Free tier · $10/movia Wan 3.0S RunwayRunway · Free tier · $15/movia Wan 3.0A CapCutByteDance · Free tiervia Seedance 2.5A LTX StudioLightricks · Free tier · $15/movia Seedance 2.5A LumaLuma AI · Free tier · $30/movia Seedance 2.5A Adobe FireflyAdobe · $9.99/movia Gemini Omni Flash 1.1– Adobe Premiere (formerly Premiere Pro)Adobe · Free tier · $23/moNo public result yet– Autodesk Flow StudioAutodesk · Free tierNo public result yet– CaptionsCaptions · Free tier · $25/moNo public result yet– DescriptDescript · Free tier · $24/moNo public result yet– DomoAIDomoAINo public result yet– Eddie AIEddie AI · Free tierNo public result yet– GlingGling · Free tier · $20/moNo public result yet– KapwingKapwing · Free tier · $16/moNo public result yet– Kling AIKuaishou · Free tierNo public result yet– Microsoft ClipchampMicrosoft · Free tierNo public result yet– OpusClipOpusClip · Free tier · $15/moNo public result yet– PictoryPictory · $29/moNo public result yet– RiversideRiverside · Free tier · $29/moNo public result yet– SubmagicSubmagic · $19/moNo public result yet– VEEDVEED · Free tierNo public result yet– ViggleViggle · Free tier · $7.99/moNo public result yet– VizardVizard.ai · Free tierNo public result yet– Wondershare FilmoraWondershare · Free tierNo public result yet

Local

A WanGP (Wan2GP)deepbeepmeep (community project) · Freevia MiniMax H3$– LTX DesktopLightricks · FreeNo public result yet– BeebleBeeble · Free tier · $19/moNo public result yet– DaVinci ResolveBlackmagic Design · Free tierNo public result yet– Final Cut ProApple · $13/moNo public result yet– KdenliveKDE · FreeNo public result yet

Workflow platforms

Node and canvas tools that chain several models into one pipeline.

Cloud

S FLORAFLORA · Free tier · $18/movia Wan 3.0S KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/movia Wan 3.0$

Local

A ComfyUIComfy Org · Freevia MiniMax H3$

Everything, in order

All video editing options in quality order

Tier	Name	Approach	Runs	Rated by	Price	Skill
S	Wan 3.0 Alibaba	Models	Cloud	1,200 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)	$0.2/s of video	—
S	FLORA FLORA	Workflow platforms	Cloud	via Wan 3.0	Free tier · $18/mo	intermediate
S	Higgsfield Higgsfield AI	Apps	Cloud	via Wan 3.0	—	beginner
S	invideo AI invideo	Apps	Cloud	via Wan 3.0	—	beginner
S	Krea Krea	Apps + Workflow platforms	Cloud	via Wan 3.0	Free tier · $5.25/mo	beginner
S	Pika Pika Labs	Apps	Cloud	via Wan 3.0	Free tier · $10/mo	beginner
S	Runway Runway	Apps	Cloud	via Wan 3.0	Free tier · $15/mo	beginner
A	Seedance 2.5 ByteDance (Seed)	Models	Cloud	1,155 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)	$0.57/s of video	—
A	Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 Google	Models	Cloud	1,149 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)	$0.1/s of video	—
A	MiniMax H3 MiniMax	Models	Local	1,125 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)	Open weights	—
A	CapCut ByteDance	Apps	Cloud	via Seedance 2.5	Free tier	beginner
A	LTX Studio Lightricks	Apps	Cloud	via Seedance 2.5	Free tier · $15/mo	beginner
A	Luma Luma AI	Apps	Cloud	via Seedance 2.5	Free tier · $30/mo	beginner
A	Adobe Firefly Adobe	Apps	Cloud	via Gemini Omni Flash 1.1	$9.99/mo	beginner
A	ComfyUI Comfy Org	Workflow platforms	Local	via MiniMax H3 Cloud models: tier S	Free	advanced
A	WanGP (Wan2GP) deepbeepmeep (community project)	Apps	Local	via MiniMax H3	Free	intermediate
C	Aleph 2.0 Runway	Models	Cloud	1,014 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)	$0.28/s of video	—
–	LTX Desktop Lightricks	Apps	Local	No public result yet	Free	intermediate
–	Adobe Premiere (formerly Premiere Pro) Adobe	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $23/mo	intermediate
–	Autodesk Flow Studio Autodesk	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	Beeble Beeble	Apps	Local	No public result yet	Free tier · $19/mo	intermediate
–	Captions Captions	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $25/mo	beginner
–	DaVinci Resolve Blackmagic Design	Apps	Local	No public result yet	Free tier	intermediate
–	Descript Descript	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $24/mo	beginner
–	DomoAI DomoAI	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	—	beginner
–	Eddie AI Eddie AI	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	intermediate
–	Final Cut Pro Apple	Apps	Local	No public result yet	$13/mo	intermediate
–	FLUX Video Edit [fast] Black Forest Labs	Models	Cloud	No public result yet	$0.03/s of video	—
–	Gling Gling	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $20/mo	beginner
–	Grok Imagine Video 1.5 xAI	Models	Cloud	No public result yet	$0.08/s of video	—
–	JoyAI-Video-Edit (DiT checkpoint 0811) JD (jd-opensource)	Models	Local	No public result yet	~32 GB VRAM	—
–	Kapwing Kapwing	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $16/mo	beginner
–	Kdenlive KDE	Apps	Local	No public result yet	Free	intermediate
–	Kling 4.0 Kuaishou (Kling AI)	Models	Cloud	No public result yet	—	—
–	Kling AI Kuaishou	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	LTX-2.5 Lightricks	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Lucy 2.5 Decart	Models	Cloud	No public result yet	$0.04/s of video	—
–	Lucy Edit 1.1 Dev Decart	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	MatAnyone 2 NTU S-Lab (Peiqing Yang et al.)	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Microsoft Clipchamp Microsoft	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	OpusClip OpusClip	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $15/mo	beginner
–	Pictory Pictory	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	$29/mo	beginner
–	Ray3.2 Luma AI	Models	Cloud	No public result yet	—	—
–	Riverside Riverside	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $29/mo	beginner
–	SkyReels V3 Skywork AI (Kunlun Tech)	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Submagic Submagic	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	$19/mo	beginner
–	VEED VEED	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	Viggle Viggle	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $7.99/mo	beginner
–	Viggle-Animate Viggle	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Vizard Vizard.ai	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	Wan 2.2 Alibaba (Wan-AI)	Models	Local	No public result yet	~24 GB VRAM	—
–	Wan-Animate-2 (Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B) Alibaba (Wan-AI)	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Wondershare Filmora Wondershare	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner

Benchmarks used

• Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio) by Artificial Analysis (blind human votes, Elo (pairwise human preference)) · snapshot 18 Oct 2026
  With-audio board: models edit a source video from a text instruction with audio kept; 9 models, Kling 3.0 Omni 1080p (Pro) anchored at 1000; category views Complex Edits, Object Editing, Physics & World Simulation, Sound & Speech Editing, Visual Effects Editing. Only open-weights entry is MiniMax H3; no Luma, Decart Lucy, LTX, Veo, Grok or FLUX entries. Lists older versions (Seedance 2.0, HappyHorse-1.0, Wan 2.7). No last-updated date shown.
• Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing, no audio (AA-Video-Editing-Silent v1.1) by Artificial Analysis (blind human votes, Elo (pairwise human preference)) · snapshot 18 Oct 2026
  No-audio view of the AA video editing arena (same page, 'No Audio' toggle); 10 models incl. Kling O1 Pro (January); Kling 3.0 Omni 1080p (Pro) anchored at 1000. No category breakdown in this view. No last-updated date shown.
• LMArena (Arena) Video Edit leaderboard by LMArena (arena.ai) (blind human votes, Arena score (Bradley-Terry Elo-style rating from pairwise votes)) · snapshot 27 Aug 2026
  Overall category, 10 models (dataset config video_edit, split latest, publish date 2026-08-27; the Video Edit Arena launched March 2026). Includes older versions (dreamina-seedance-2.0-720p, happyhorse-1.0, kling-o1-pro, kling-o3-pro, runway-gen4-aleph, unversioned gemini-omni-flash and grok-imagine-video); lacks Aleph 2.0, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, Luma, Decart Lucy. url points to the HF dataset, as for the other LMArena records (arena.ai pages returned 403 to earlier researchers).