FilmBench (Text-to-Video): leaderboard

Metric: Overall score (0-100), the equal-weighted mean of the three axes, on 515 text-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. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Seedance 2.088.9
2HappyHorse 1.187.4
3HappyHorse 1.087
4Kling 3.0 Omni86.1
5Kling 3.085.8
6Vidu Q3 Pro80.9
7Grok Imagine Video80.9
8Veo 3.180.8
9Hailuo 2.368.9

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