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We asked creative experts to rank AI image / video models. Here's what happened

ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 topped the overall video-model leaderboard with a score of 1,125 in a ranking compiled from creative experts, ahead of Alibaba's Wan 3.0 at 1,047 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 at 1,044. Seedance 2.5 also placed first in the ads (1,072), film (1,132), animation (1,077) and motion design (1,097) use-case boards, while Google's Omni Flash ranked fifth overall at 1,029 and xAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 placed tenth overall at 963.

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We asked creative experts to rank AI image / video models. Here's what happened
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Video · General capabilities

Overall - video models ranked

v1.0

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1,125****ByteDanceSeedance 2.5 2

1,047****AlibabaWan 3.0 3

1,044****ByteDanceSeedance 2.0 4

1,033****Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5Google

1,029Google Omni Flash 6

1,003****Black Forest LabsFlux 3 Video 7

1,000****MiniMaxMiniMax H3 8

979****KuaishouKling 3.0 Omni 9

977****HappyHorseHappyHorse 1.1 10

963****xAIGrok Imagine 1.5 Video · By use case

Ads - video models ranked

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1

1,072****ByteDanceSeedance 2.5 2

1,043****AlibabaWan 3.0 3

1,031****ByteDanceSeedance 2.0 4Google

1,010Google Omni Flash 5

1,000****MiniMaxMiniMax H3 6

990****Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 7

981****HappyHorseHappyHorse 1.1 8

971****Black Forest LabsFlux 3 Video 9

944****xAIGrok Imagine 1.5 10

939****KuaishouKling 3.0 Omni Video · By use case

Film - video models ranked

v1.0

1

1,132****ByteDanceSeedance 2.5 2

1,080****ByteDanceSeedance 2.0 3

1,039****AlibabaWan 3.0 4

1,038****Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5Google

1,015Google Omni Flash 6

1,000****MiniMaxMiniMax H3 7

991****Black Forest LabsFlux 3 Video 8

977****HappyHorseHappyHorse 1.1 9

946****KuaishouKling 3.0 Omni 10

934****xAIGrok Imagine 1.5 Video · By use case

Animation - video models ranked

v1.0

1

1,077****ByteDanceSeedance 2.5 2

1,054****ByteDanceSeedance 2.0 3

1,039****AlibabaWan 3.0 4

1,021****Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5

1,000****MiniMaxMiniMax H3 6Google

999Google Omni Flash 7

970****Black Forest LabsFlux 3 Video 8

953****xAIGrok Imagine 1.5 9

947****HappyHorseHappyHorse 1.1 10

920****PixVersePixVerse V6 Video · By use case

Motion Design - video models ranked

v1.0

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1,097****ByteDanceSeedance 2.5 2

1,038****ByteDanceSeedance 2.0 3

1,030****AlibabaWan 3.0 4

1,001****Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5

1,000****MiniMaxMiniMax H3 6Google

993Google Omni Flash 7

950****Black Forest LabsFlux 3 Video 8

936****HappyHorseHappyHorse 1.1 9

913****xAIGrok Imagine 1.5 10

885****PixVersePixVerse V6 Video · Capability track

Video Editing - video models ranked

v1.0

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1,080****AlibabaWan 3.0 2

1,079****ByteDanceSeedance 2.5 3Google

1,068Google Omni Flash 4

1,046****ByteDanceSeedance 2.0 5

1,008****Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 6

1,000****MiniMaxMiniMax H3 Video · Capability track

Lip Sync - video models ranked

v1.0

1

1,123****ByteDanceSeedance 2.5 2

1,060****ByteDanceSeedance 2.0 3

1,054****Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 4

1,000****MiniMaxMiniMax H3 5

923****AlibabaWan 3.0 Image · General capabilities

Overall - image models ranked

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1

1,051****ByteDanceSeedream 5.0 Pro 2

1,047****OpenAIGPT Image 2 3

1,008****Nano Banana Pro Google 4

1,000****xAIGrok Imagine 2.0 5Google

985Nano Banana 2 6

966****AlibabaQwen Image 3.0 7

927****Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs Image · By use case

E-commerce - image models ranked

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1,025****ByteDanceSeedream 5.0 Pro 2

1,023****OpenAIGPT Image 2 3Google

1,014Nano Banana 2 4

1,008****Nano Banana Pro Google 5

1,000****xAIGrok Imagine 2.0 6

940****AlibabaQwen Image 3.0 7

931****Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs Image · By use case

Film - image models ranked

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1

1,074****ByteDanceSeedream 5.0 Pro 2

1,059****Nano Banana Pro Google 3

1,058****OpenAIGPT Image 2 4

1,000****xAIGrok Imagine 2.0 5Google

998Nano Banana 2 6

978****Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs 7

964****AlibabaQwen Image 3.0 Image · By use case

Graphic Design - image models ranked

v1.0

1

1,051****OpenAIGPT Image 2 2

1,000****xAIGrok Imagine 2.0 3

975****ByteDanceSeedream 5.0 Pro 4

952****Nano Banana Pro Google 5Google

952Nano Banana 2 6

936****AlibabaQwen Image 3.0 7

901****Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs Image · Capability track

Image Editing - image models ranked

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1,045****OpenAIGPT Image 2 2

1,037****ByteDanceSeedream 5.0 Pro 3

1,035****Nano Banana Pro Google 4Google

1,032Nano Banana 2 5

1,000****xAIGrok Imagine 2.0 6

992****AlibabaQwen Image 3.0 7

955****Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs

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