FilmBench (Reference-to-Video) - Instruction Following: leaderboard

Metric: Instruction-following axis score (0-100) 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 2.087.5
2HappyHorse 1.186.7
3HappyHorse 1.085
4Kling 3.0 Omni78.8
5Veo 3.174.7
6Grok Imagine Video71.2
7Vidu Q2 Pro57.4

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