What does generating one minute of 1080p AI video cost per model on vendor APIs, and how does price relate to measured quality (Oct 2026)?

Artificial Analysis video boards (rendered 2026-10-23; Elo anchored at Kling 3.0 1080p Pro = 1000; prices = 1 minute of 1080p on the creator's API at default settings). Text-to-video: Wan 3.0 1175 ($12.00/min), HeyGen Video 1 1160 ($2.40), MiniMax H3 768p 1158 ($4.80), Seedance 2.5 1158 ($34.12), FLUX 3 Max 720p 1155 ($2.55), MiniMax H3 Max 1154 ($4.80), FLUX 3 1145 ($17.40), Seedance 2.0 1136 ($22.45), Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 1130 ($9.12), Grok Imagine 1.5 1056 ($15.00), Kling 3.0 Omni 1020 ($8.40), Kling 3.0 1000 ($10.08), Veo 3.1 963 ($24.00), Veo 3.1 Fast 960 ($7.20), LTX-2.5 Fast 949 ($7.80), LTX-2.3 Pro 888 ($4.80). Image-to-video: MiniMax H3 768p 1140 ($4.80), FLUX 3 Max 1138 ($2.55), Seedance 2.5 1138 ($34.12), Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 1132 ($9.12), Wan 3.0 1127 ($12), ... Veo 3.1 1028 ($24), Kling 3.0 1000 ($10.08). CIs are about +/-15 Elo, so the top 6-8 are statistically close while prices differ by >10x (Seedance 2.5 vs FLUX 3 Max / MiniMax H3). This quantifies creator reports that MiniMax H3 is ~25% of Seedance 2.5's cost (C3-B335-08, actual ratio here ~14%) and that cheaper models get 80-90% of Seedance results for many tasks (C3-B345-01). Kling 4.0 is not yet on these boards. Note 720p/768p entries are priced/measured at their own default resolutions. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Dated leaderboard snapshot from a benchmark operator: blind-preference Elo and listed API prices as rendered on 2026-10-23; rankings shift often; preference votes are not validation of fitness for a task; confidence intervals as stated. Prices are per minute of 1080p on each creator API at default settings, as listed by the operator. Limitations: Prices are list/API defaults (platform credit plans differ); preference Elo from AA prompt sets; methodology not read. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video",
      "note": "row Dreamina Seedance 2.5; row MiniMax H3 (768p); footnote"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/image-to-video",
      "note": "row Dreamina Seedance 2.5; row MiniMax H3 (768p); footnote"
    }
  ]
}