Tool tag: Text-to-Video

Veo 3.1

Google DeepMind's video model with native audio. Three tiers from $0.05 to $0.60 per second, 4–8 second clips up to 4K, plus video extension.

Wan 3.0

Alibaba's video family. Wan 3.0 (August 2026) generates 30-second 1080p clips with audio, API-only. Wan 2.2 is still the last Apache 2.0 release.

MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0)

MiniMax's omni-modal video model, announced July 31, 2026: 33B open weights, 2K video up to 15 seconds, with stereo audio generated jointly.

Seedance 2.5

ByteDance Seed video model, launched July 31, 2026: 30-second audio-video in one pass and 50 reference inputs. No technical report or rate card yet.

HappyHorse 1.1

Alibaba's video generation model, released June 23, 2026 by the Alibaba Token Hub team. Generates up to 15 seconds of 1080p video with synchronized audio.

Kling 3.0

Kuaishou's closed-weight video family, launched February 5, 2026. Four SKUs across video and image, clips of 3–15 seconds with natively generated audio.

Sora (Discontinued)

OpenAI's video generator. The Sora apps closed April 26, 2026; the API shuts down September 24, 2026, and OpenAI has no replacement.

Sora 2 (Discontinued)

OpenAI is retiring Sora: the apps closed April 26, 2026 and the API shuts down September 24, 2026, with no OpenAI successor.

Wan2.1 (Alibaba)

Alibaba's open-weights video foundation model, Apache 2.0 licensed and widely supported via ComfyUI. Superseded by Wan2.2, which is also open-weights.

Luma Dream Machine

Luma AI's video generation platform. Ray3 was the first video model to reason about a shot before generating it, and the first to output native 16-bit HDR.