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Chinese AI video, against the Sora and Veo rows we can cite

Published 16 Oct 2026. Updated 16 Oct 2026. Researched 16 Oct 2026.

People outside China usually meet Chinese video models as Kling, Hailuo, Seedance, Vidu, or Wan. Those are not one price, and a chatbot discount does not describe any of them. This page uses two files we actually stored on 16 Oct 2026: a public preference board, and vendor list prices whose units we are willing to put on the same axis.

What people preferred, on a dated board

The text-to-video file is the LMArena dataset, config text_to_video, split latest, published 22 Sep 2026. The ratings are Bradley-Terry scores, not Elo, and they are not comparable with the image board. Wan 3.0 is high and thinly voted. Kling 4.0, which Kuaishou was still describing as an October launch on 15 Oct, is not a row. Neither is a current Veo or Sora alias that post-dates this file. The chart prints the row names.

Image-to-video is a different file from the same day. Vidu Q3 Pro appears here and did not appear in the text-to-video overall list we kept. MiniMax H3 is rank 1 on this split. Hailuo 2.3 is much further down, with a very large vote count, so it is a stable row rather than a missing one.

Artificial Analysis publishes its own video arena. It needs an API key we do not have, so it is not a second chart. Do not average these ratings with a number from another site.

Prices that share a unit

MiniMax’s API list, fetched the same day, bills H3 per second of output: $0.08 at 768P and $0.13 at 2K. H3-Max is $0.05 at 480P and $0.08 at 768P. The older Hailuo 2.3 line is a clip price, $0.28 for a 768P, 6 second video, which is why it is not a bar below. QwenCloud’s Wan table is also per second. The wan3.0-video 1080P list price is $0.20, with a limited-time 30 percent discount printed beside it. Kling’s consumer credit grid was still not on a page we archived. See the Kling 4.0 note.

Seedance is a token price, on BytePlus

BytePlus ModelArk is the international console for ByteDance’s video models. Dreamina Seedance 2.x is billed per million tokens, with a lower rate when the input includes video. That cannot sit on the per-second chart without a conversion we are not going to invent. The BytePlus guide has the signup and payment limits. Seedance 2.5 also has prepaid token packs on the offers page, from $32 for 5 million tokens, valid three months, and those packs are not refundable once bought.

What we will not rank

A “best generator” sentence needs a prompt you care about. The board is blind preference on someone else’s prompts, frozen on 22 Sep. Kling 4.0’s feature table is real and its credit price is not in this repo. Vidu has a QwenCloud per-second line for some ids and a preference row only on image-to-video. Jimeng is the China consumer name people use for Dreamina-class tools. We did not open a China app store.

Privacy

A video prompt plus a face is a biometric upload. Kling is Kuaishou, Hailuo is MiniMax, Seedance is ByteDance, Wan is Alibaba. All of those companies are in the PRC even when the console you pay is an international cloud. Do not upload a face you could not explain. The safety guide is the longer version. Open weights, if you want the clip on your own GPU, are in the local video guide.

Related: Kling, Hailuo, Kling 4.0, BytePlus, free video and image.