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Wan 2.2 Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) A live

API & price: cloud + self-host
Max output: 5s · 720p (24fps, TI2V-5B on one 24GB GPU)
Native audio: no
Weights: open · Apache-2.0
Free tier: open self-host

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04

LTX-2 Lightricks A live

API & price: cloud + self-host · fal.ai $0.04-0.24/s
Max output: ~10s · up to 4K (50fps)
Native audio: yes (LTX-2/2.3; older 0.9.x had none)
Weights: open · custom (Lightricks community licence; free commercial under $10M ARR)
Free tier: open self-host (free commercial under $10M ARR)

Quality 974Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video Arena (LTX-2.3 Fast) ↗

Best freeBest for APIOpen-weightsNative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

CogVideoX Zhipu AI A live

API & price: cloud + self-host · hosted $0.2/video (z.ai)
Max output: 10s · 1360×768 (16fps, CogVideoX1.5-5B)
Native audio: no (open weights video-only)
Weights: split — 2b: Apache-2.0; 5b: custom CogVideoX License
Free tier: open self-host + free Qingying web tier

Quality 80.3VBench (secondary compilation) ↗

Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04

Mochi 1 Genmo A live

API & price: cloud playground + self-host
Max output: 5.4s · 480p (30fps)
Native audio: no
Weights: open · Apache-2.0
Free tier: open self-host + free hosted playground

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04

Dreamina / Seedance 2.0 ByteDance A live

API & price: public · ~$0.01-0.03/s (720p, via BytePlus ModelArk)
Max output: 15s · 2K
Native audio: yes
Weights: closed
Free tier: limited · watermarked

Quality 1221Artificial Analysis Video Arena (with audio) ↗

Best freeBest for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Vidu Shengshu Technology A live

API & price: public · ~$0.02-0.145/s
Max output: 16s · 1080p
Native audio: yes
Weights: closed
Free tier: watermarked

Quality 1061Artificial Analysis Video Arena (image-to-video) ↗

Best freeBest for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Pika 2.5 Pika Labs A live

API & price: public · ~$0.04-0.09/s (via fal.ai)
Max output: 25s · 1080p (via Pikaframes; base ~15s)
Native audio: partial (SFX only, no music/voice)
Weights: closed
Free tier: watermarked (80 credits/mo, 480p)

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for API ✓ 2026-07-04

Runway Gen-4 Runway B live

API & price: public · ~$0.05/s (Gen-4 Turbo = 5 credits/s @ $0.01)
Max output: 10s · 720p (4K via upscale)
Native audio: no
Weights: closed
Free tier: watermarked (Free plan: 125 one-time credits)

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for API ✓ 2026-07-04

Veo 3.1 Fast Google DeepMind A live

API & price: public · ~$0.10/s (720p/1080p, audio incl.); $0.30/s at 4K
Max output: 8s · 720p/1080p/4K (24fps; ~140s via extension)
Native audio: yes
Weights: closed
Free tier: no (metered paid API)

Quality 1076Artificial Analysis Image-to-Video Arena ↗

Best for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Higgsfield Higgsfield AI C live

API & price: public · ~$0.14-0.57 per 5s (own DoP models)
Max output: 15s · 4K (via routed Kling 3.0 / Wan 2.6)
Native audio: yes (via routed models)
Weights: closed
Free tier: watermarked · ~10 credits/day

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Luma Ray3.2 Luma AI B live

API & price: public · ~$0.30 per 720p 5s clip (HDR 2x, EXR 3x)
Max output: 20s · 1080p (native 5-10s; 20s via V2V)
Native audio: no
Weights: closed
Free tier: limited (Lite plan, limited monthly credits, no watermark)

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for API ✓ 2026-07-04

Kling 3.0 Kuaishou (Kling AI) A live

API & price: public · ~$0.075/s (reseller); consumer plans give no API access
Max output: 15s · 4K (60fps)
Native audio: yes
Weights: closed
Free tier: watermarked (~66 daily credits)

Quality 1105Artificial Analysis Video Arena (with audio) ↗

Best freeBest for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Grok Imagine Video xAI A live

API & price: public · $0.05/s ($4.20/min incl. audio)
Max output: 15s · 720p
Native audio: yes
Weights: closed
Free tier: no (free tier removed 2026-03-19; watermarked outputs)

Quality 1113Artificial Analysis Image-to-Video Arena (with audio) ↗

Best for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

PixVerse V6 AIsphere A live

API & price: public · $0.09/s (1080p, via fal.ai)
Max output: 15s · 1080p
Native audio: yes
Weights: closed
Free tier: watermarked

Quality 1074Artificial Analysis Image-to-Video Arena ↗

Best freeBest for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Marey Moonvalley A live

API & price: public · $0.30/s (via fal.ai)
Max output: 10s · 1080p
Native audio: no
Weights: closed
Free tier: no

Quality no independent measure

Best for API ✓ 2026-07-04

Veo 3.1 Google DeepMind A live

API & price: public · $0.40/s (Fast $0.10-0.30/s, Lite $0.05-0.08/s)
Max output: 8s · 1080p (4K available; ~148s via extension)
Native audio: yes
Weights: closed
Free tier: limited (watermarked generation via Gemini app; no free API)

Quality 1094Artificial Analysis Video Arena (text-to-video) ↗

Best freeBest for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Hailuo 02 MiniMax A live

API & price: public · points-based (768p/6s = 1 pt; packages $1,000-$6,000)
Max output: 10s · 768p / 6s · 1080p
Native audio: no
Weights: closed
Free tier: watermarked (daily free allowance; watermark removed on $14.99/mo)

Quality 1228arena.ai Image-to-Video Leaderboard ↗

Best freeBest for API ✓ 2026-07-04

Kling O1 Kuaishou (Kling AI) A live

API & price: public · resellers ~$0.1111/s
Max output: 1080p · multi-shot up to ~3 min
Native audio: yes (voice/dialogue/SFX/singing, EN+ZH)
Weights: closed
Free tier: limited (~66 daily credits)

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

Amazon Nova Reel Amazon A live

API & price: public (Amazon Bedrock) · $0.08/s at 720p
Max output: 720p · 24fps · multi-shot up to 2 min
Native audio: no
Weights: closed
Free tier: no (pay-as-you-go on Bedrock)

Quality no independent measure

Best for API ✓ 2026-07-04

Adobe Firefly Video Model Adobe A live

API & price: public (Firefly Services API) + web app + Premiere Pro
Max output: 1080p (4K via upscale) · ~5-15s
Native audio: no (generated audio in early testing)
Weights: closed
Free tier: limited (free Firefly credits; unlimited on some CC plans)

Quality no independent measure

Best freeBest for API ✓ 2026-07-04

HappyHorse 1.1 Alibaba (Taotian — Future Life Lab) B live

API & price: public via aggregators (fal.ai ~$0.14-0.28/s); no first-party endpoint
Max output: 3-15s · 1080p (24fps)
Native audio: yes (joint video+audio, multilingual lip-sync)
Weights: closed (vendor states no open-source)
Free tier: no (paid API only)

Quality 1152Artificial Analysis Video Arena (text-to-video) ↗

Best for APINative audio ✓ 2026-07-04

HunyuanVideo Tencent A live

API & price: third-party cloud + self-host · fal.ai $0.4/video
Max output: 5s · 720p (129 frames)
Native audio: no
Weights: open · custom (Tencent Hunyuan Community License; excludes EU/UK/KR)
Free tier: open self-host (weights free; no vendor free hosted tier)

Quality 82.7VBench (third-party compilation) ↗

Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04