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.

Video · General capabilities Overall - video models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-video v1.0 1 1,125 ByteDance Seedance 2.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-5/ 2 1,047 Alibaba Wan 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/wan-3/ 3 1,044 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-0/ 4 1,033 Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5 Google 1,029 Google Omni Flash https://openart.ai/ai-model/gemini-omni-flash/ 6 1,003 Black Forest Labs Flux 3 Video https://openart.ai/ai-model/flux-3/ 7 1,000 MiniMax MiniMax H3 https://openart.ai/ai-model/minimax-h3/ 8 979 Kuaishou Kling 3.0 Omni https://openart.ai/ai-model/kling-3-motion-control/ 9 977 HappyHorse HappyHorse 1.1 https://openart.ai/ai-model/happy-horse-ai-video-generator/ 10 963 xAI Grok Imagine 1.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ Video · By use case Ads - video models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-ads-video v1.0 1 1,072 ByteDance Seedance 2.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-5/ 2 1,043 Alibaba Wan 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/wan-3/ 3 1,031 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-0/ 4 Google 1,010 Google Omni Flash https://openart.ai/ai-model/gemini-omni-flash/ 5 1,000 MiniMax MiniMax H3 https://openart.ai/ai-model/minimax-h3/ 6 990 Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 7 981 HappyHorse HappyHorse 1.1 https://openart.ai/ai-model/happy-horse-ai-video-generator/ 8 971 Black Forest Labs Flux 3 Video https://openart.ai/ai-model/flux-3/ 9 944 xAI Grok Imagine 1.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 10 939 Kuaishou Kling 3.0 Omni https://openart.ai/ai-model/kling-3-motion-control/ Video · By use case Film - video models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-film-video v1.0 1 1,132 ByteDance Seedance 2.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-5/ 2 1,080 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-0/ 3 1,039 Alibaba Wan 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/wan-3/ 4 1,038 Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5 Google 1,015 Google Omni Flash https://openart.ai/ai-model/gemini-omni-flash/ 6 1,000 MiniMax MiniMax H3 https://openart.ai/ai-model/minimax-h3/ 7 991 Black Forest Labs Flux 3 Video https://openart.ai/ai-model/flux-3/ 8 977 HappyHorse HappyHorse 1.1 https://openart.ai/ai-model/happy-horse-ai-video-generator/ 9 946 Kuaishou Kling 3.0 Omni https://openart.ai/ai-model/kling-3-motion-control/ 10 934 xAI Grok Imagine 1.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ Video · By use case Animation - video models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-animation-video v1.0 1 1,077 ByteDance Seedance 2.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-5/ 2 1,054 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-0/ 3 1,039 Alibaba Wan 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/wan-3/ 4 1,021 Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5 1,000 MiniMax MiniMax H3 https://openart.ai/ai-model/minimax-h3/ 6 Google 999 Google Omni Flash https://openart.ai/ai-model/gemini-omni-flash/ 7 970 Black Forest Labs Flux 3 Video https://openart.ai/ai-model/flux-3/ 8 953 xAI Grok Imagine 1.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 9 947 HappyHorse HappyHorse 1.1 https://openart.ai/ai-model/happy-horse-ai-video-generator/ 10 920 PixVerse PixVerse V6 https://openart.ai/ai-model/pixverse-video-generator/ Video · By use case Motion Design - video models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-motion-design-video v1.0 1 1,097 ByteDance Seedance 2.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-5/ 2 1,038 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-0/ 3 1,030 Alibaba Wan 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/wan-3/ 4 1,001 Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 5 1,000 MiniMax MiniMax H3 https://openart.ai/ai-model/minimax-h3/ 6 Google 993 Google Omni Flash https://openart.ai/ai-model/gemini-omni-flash/ 7 950 Black Forest Labs Flux 3 Video https://openart.ai/ai-model/flux-3/ 8 936 HappyHorse HappyHorse 1.1 https://openart.ai/ai-model/happy-horse-ai-video-generator/ 9 913 xAI Grok Imagine 1.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 10 885 PixVerse PixVerse V6 https://openart.ai/ai-model/pixverse-video-generator/ Video · Capability track Video Editing - video models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-video-editing-video v1.0 1 1,080 Alibaba Wan 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/wan-3/ 2 1,079 ByteDance Seedance 2.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-5/ 3 Google 1,068 Google Omni Flash https://openart.ai/ai-model/gemini-omni-flash/ 4 1,046 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-0/ 5 1,008 Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 6 1,000 MiniMax MiniMax H3 https://openart.ai/ai-model/minimax-h3/ Video · Capability track Lip Sync - video models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-lip-sync-video v1.0 1 1,123 ByteDance Seedance 2.5 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-5/ 2 1,060 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedance-2-0/ 3 1,054 Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance 4 1,000 MiniMax MiniMax H3 https://openart.ai/ai-model/minimax-h3/ 5 923 Alibaba Wan 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/wan-3/ Image · General capabilities Overall - image models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-image v1.0 1 1,051 ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedream-5-pro/ 2 1,047 OpenAI GPT Image 2 https://openart.ai/ai-model/gpt-image-2/ 3 1,008 Nano Banana Pro Google 4 1,000 xAI Grok Imagine 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 5 Google 985 Nano Banana 2 https://openart.ai/nano-banana-2 6 966 Alibaba Qwen Image 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/qwen-image-3/ 7 927 Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs Image · By use case E-commerce - image models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-ecommerce-image v1.0 1 1,025 ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedream-5-pro/ 2 1,023 OpenAI GPT Image 2 https://openart.ai/ai-model/gpt-image-2/ 3 Google 1,014 Nano Banana 2 https://openart.ai/nano-banana-2 4 1,008 Nano Banana Pro Google 5 1,000 xAI Grok Imagine 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 6 940 Alibaba Qwen Image 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/qwen-image-3/ 7 931 Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs Image · By use case Film - image models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-film-image v1.0 1 1,074 ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedream-5-pro/ 2 1,059 Nano Banana Pro Google 3 1,058 OpenAI GPT Image 2 https://openart.ai/ai-model/gpt-image-2/ 4 1,000 xAI Grok Imagine 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 5 Google 998 Nano Banana 2 https://openart.ai/nano-banana-2 6 978 Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs 7 964 Alibaba Qwen Image 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/qwen-image-3/ Image · By use case Graphic Design - image models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-graphic-design-image v1.0 1 1,051 OpenAI GPT Image 2 https://openart.ai/ai-model/gpt-image-2/ 2 1,000 xAI Grok Imagine 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 3 975 ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedream-5-pro/ 4 952 Nano Banana Pro Google 5 Google 952 Nano Banana 2 https://openart.ai/nano-banana-2 6 936 Alibaba Qwen Image 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/qwen-image-3/ 7 901 Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs Image · Capability track Image Editing - image models ranked https://openart.ai/arena/leaderboard board-image-editing-image v1.0 1 1,045 OpenAI GPT Image 2 https://openart.ai/ai-model/gpt-image-2/ 2 1,037 ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro https://openart.ai/ai-model/seedream-5-pro/ 3 1,035 Nano Banana Pro Google 4 Google 1,032 Nano Banana 2 https://openart.ai/nano-banana-2 5 1,000 xAI Grok Imagine 2.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/grok-imagine/ 6 992 Alibaba Qwen Image 3.0 https://openart.ai/ai-model/qwen-image-3/ 7 955 Flux.2 Pro Black Forest Labs