AnimationBench - Anticipation: leaderboard
Metric: Anticipation: whether a recognizable preparatory motion precedes the main action (%), animation-style image-to-video generation from the AnimationBench close-set suite (fixed source images and prompts, about 30 videos per dimension per model), scored by Qwen3-VL-Max yes/no question sets aggregated per video; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 8 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seedance 2.0 | 72.02 |
| 2 | Veo 3.1 | 66.67 |
| 3 | Kling 2.6 | 64.04 |
| 4 | Seedance 1.0 Pro | 64.04 |
| 5 | Wan2.2-I2V-A14B | 61.59 |
| 6 | Sora 2 Pro | 56.14 |
| 7 | FramePack | 26.81 |
| 8 | HunyuanVideo-1.5 | 19.7 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=animationbench-anticipation · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.