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Best AI APIs for video generation
Models you can call through a paid API, ranked from public benchmarks, with their price in this task’s unit.
STop ranked: Wan 3.0 (Alibaba), 1,174 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio).16 options listed · data verified 19 Oct 2026
Ranked list
| Tier | Name | Approach | Runs | Rated by | Price | Skill | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | Wan 3.0 Alibaba | Models | Cloud | 1,174 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.2/s of video | — | |
| S |  Seedance 2.5ByteDance (Seed) | Models | Cloud | 1,160 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.57/s of video | — | vs Wan 3.0 |
| S |  MiniMax H3MiniMax | Models | Local | 1,159 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | Open weights | — | vs Wan 3.0 |
| S |  FLUX 3 VideoBlack Forest Labs | Models | Cloud | 1,146 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.29/s of video | — | vs Wan 3.0 |
| A |  BACH 1.0 ProVideo Rebirth | Models | Cloud | 1,362 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video, no audio (AA-Video-I2V-Silent v1.0) | $0.12/s of video | — | |
| A |  Gemini Omni Flash 1.1Google | Models | Cloud | 1,132 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.1/s of video | — | vs Wan 3.0 |
| B |  Grok Imagine Video 1.5xAI | Models | Cloud | 1,060 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.08/s of video | — | |
| B | HappyHorse 1.1 Alibaba (ATH) | Models | Cloud | 1,055 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.18/s of video | — | |
| C |  PixVerse V6PixVerse | Models | Cloud | 988 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.12/s of video | — | |
| C |  Veo 3.1Google | Models | Cloud | 968 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.4/s of video | — | |
| C |  Gen-4.5Runway | Models | Cloud | 913 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video, no audio (AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1) | $0.12/s of video | — | |
| C |  LTX-2.5Lightricks | Models | Local | 950 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | Open weights | — | |
| C |  Pika 2.5Pika Labs | Models | Cloud | 838 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video, no audio (AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1) | $0.09/s of video | — | |
| C |  BorealCreatify | Models | Cloud | 831 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | $0.01/s of video | — | |
| C |  HunyuanVideo 1.5Tencent | Models | Local | 1,169 on LMArena (Arena) Text-to-Video leaderboard | ~14 GB VRAM | — | |
| C |  Wan 2.2Alibaba (Wan-AI) | Models | Local | 1,132 on LMArena (Arena) Text-to-Video leaderboard | ~24 GB VRAM | — |
Tiers come only from public benchmarks (Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio), Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video, no audio (AA-Video-I2V-Silent v1.0), Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video, no audio (AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1), LMArena (Arena) Text-to-Video leaderboard); tools without a result of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer. How we rank.