Benchmark
Animation leaderboard
Board: Overall · Hands · Faces · Liquids · On-screen text · Multi-shot · Lip-sync · Camera · Animals · Style · Image to video · Animation
Look: Realism · Animation and 3D
The animation set (walk cycle, squash and stretch, anime action, 3D feature look) is scored separately and does not count towards the overall ranking. Sora 2 was retired before the animation set was added, so it has no clips on it.
Round: all · v1-vivix-2026-10 · v1-2026-10 · v1-2026-09 · anim1-2026-10
Clip shown: every model here on the same prompt, “anim-walk-cycle”, so the preview is a fair comparison, not a cherry-picked best clip.
| # | Model | Clip | Overall | 95% CI | Fidelity | Visual | Physics | Consistency | Audio | Attempts | Gen (s) | $/run | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Google Veo 3.1
|
4.85 | ±0.19 | 4.88 | 4.88 | 4.63 | 5.00 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 2 | Google Gemini Omni
|
4.85 | ±0.25 | 4.75 | 5.00 | 4.88 | 4.75 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 3 |  Seedance 2.0
ByteDance |
4.72 | ±0.44 | 4.13 | 5.00 | 4.88 | 4.88 | — | 2.00 | — | — | 4 | |
| 4 |  MiniMax H3
MiniMax |
4.69 | ±0.74 | 4.63 | 4.88 | 4.50 | 4.75 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 5 |  FLUX 3
Black Forest Labs |
4.63 | ±0.49 | 4.50 | 4.88 | 4.38 | 4.75 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 6 |  Grok Video
xAI |
4.57 | ±0.35 | 4.50 | 5.00 | 4.25 | 4.50 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 7 |  Vivix W1
preview Vivix |
4.57 | ±0.5 | 4.13 | 4.88 | 4.63 | 4.63 | — | 1.00 | 20 | $0.026 | 4 | |
| 8 |  Wan 3.0
preview Alibaba |
4.53 | ±0.62 | 4.25 | 5.00 | 4.25 | 4.63 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 9 |  Kling 4.0
preview Kuaishou |
4.53 | ±0.52 | 4.50 | 4.88 | 4.13 | 4.63 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 10 | Kling 3.0
Kuaishou |
4.50 | ±0.63 | 4.13 | 4.88 | 4.38 | 4.63 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 11 | Seedance 2.5
ByteDance |
4.44 | ±0.74 | 4.00 | 4.88 | 4.00 | 4.88 | — | 2.00 | — | — | 4 | |
| 12 | Kling 3.0 Turbo
Kuaishou |
4.41 | ±0.57 | 4.25 | 4.63 | 4.25 | 4.50 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 13 |  Runway Gen-4.5
Runway |
4.25 | ±0.86 | 4.38 | 4.50 | 4.25 | 3.88 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 14 | MiniMax Hailuo 02
MiniMax |
4.13 | ±0.58 | 3.88 | 4.50 | 4.00 | 4.13 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 15 |  PixVerse v5.5
PixVerse |
3.82 | ±0.47 | 3.25 | 4.38 | 3.50 | 4.13 | — | — | — | — | 4 |
Attempts is the average number of generations needed before one was usable, the number that actually decides what a model costs you. 95% CI is computed from that model's own runs on this board, not assumed. On a category board with only 4 runs per model, a wide CI is the honest reflection of a small sample, not a bug. Two models whose CIs overlap are not meaningfully different at this sample size.
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SlopTV. (2026). Animation leaderboard: AI video models ranked. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://sloptv.co/leaderboard/animation<a href="https://sloptv.co/leaderboard/animation">Animation leaderboard: AI video models ranked</a> (SlopTV)Frequently asked
Which AI video model is best at Animation right now?
As of 23 October 2026, Google Veo 3.1 by Google ranks #1 on Animation on SlopTV's benchmark, scoring 4.85/5 across 4 scored runs (±0.19 at 95% confidence).