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

Metric: Instruction-following 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 2.091.7
2HappyHorse 1.190.7
3HappyHorse 1.089.5
4Kling 3.0 Omni88.3
5Kling 3.087.5
6Vidu Q3 Pro82
7Grok Imagine Video82
8Veo 3.178.5
9Hailuo 2.355.9

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