FilmBench (Text-to-Video) - Aesthetic Quality: leaderboard

Metric: Aesthetic-quality axis score (0-100) 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 2.079
2HappyHorse 1.076.9
3HappyHorse 1.176.8
4Kling 3.075.2
5Kling 3.0 Omni75.1
6Veo 3.173.6
7Grok Imagine Video71.6
8Vidu Q3 Pro70.6
9Hailuo 2.362.7

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