Best AI Video Generation Models in 2026: Elo Rankings, Price per Second, and Open Weights

The AI video leaderboard looks very different from 12 months ago. Native audio is now table stakes. Clips run 15–30 seconds. And an open-weights model sits in the top 3.

This ranking (as of November 13, 2026) uses one quality signal: blind human-preference Elo from the Artificial Analysis Video Arena. We pair it with API price per second and the license status of each model's weights. You can check deployment options and specs through the GPULeaderboard.com Chrome extension.

Methodology

Quality: Artificial Analysis ranks models by Elo from blind pairwise votes by validated evaluators. Each vote compares two clips generated from the same prompt. We rank by the AA-Video-T2V v2.1 (with audio) board and also report the AA-Video-I2V v2.1 score.

Anchor: Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) is fixed at 1000 Elo on both boards. A score below 1000 means voters preferred Kling 3.0 more often.

Price: Artificial Analysis lists cost per minute on each creator's API, normalized to 1080p where offered. We divide by 60 to get price per second. Vendor rates at 720p are often lower, and we flag those gaps.

Confidence: Most top-10 scores carry a ±13 to ±15 Elo interval. Models within ~25 points are statistically close. Treat ranks 3–8 as a cluster rather than a strict order.

Master Comparison Table

(Comparison table follows in the original source.)

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