FilmBench (Reference-to-Video): leaderboard

Metric: Overall score (0-100), the equal-weighted mean of the three axes, on 654 reference-to-video prompts; prompts reverse-engineered from clips of award-winning films in 20 genres, scored by the authors' expert-grade evaluation agent (Cinematic Language operators plus a judge model) on a three-level cinematic taxonomy, 1-5 per sub-metric mapped to 0-100. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Seedance 2.086.7
2HappyHorse 1.185.5
3HappyHorse 1.084.9
4Kling 3.0 Omni80.4
5Veo 3.178.2
6Grok Imagine Video76.9
7Vidu Q2 Pro71.4

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=filmbench-reference-to-video · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-29.