Artificial Analysis Launches AA-Video-I2V v2.1 Benchmark
The pricing spread matters more than the ranking itself: Seedance 2.5's #1 spot costs roughly 7x what the open-weights MiniMax H3 charges per minute, and H3 already beats it on Text Rendering. Teams building image-to-video pipelines for ads, ecommerce or film can use the per-capability leaderboards to match models to specific needs instead of paying for overall rank. The 95% private prompt pool also makes these rankings harder to game than public arena results.
