Methodology

The only comparison that shows the real cost of a video that actually works, and warns you before your model gets shut down.

How we test

  • Blind, same-prompt testing. Every model gets the identical prompt set, identical duration and identical resolution target. Raters never see which model produced which clip.
  • Weekly re-runs. Scores and Elo are recomputed every week, so vendor updates and silent regressions show up in the 7-day delta.
  • Elo from pairwise votes. Raters pick a winner per prompt pair; Elo is derived from those matchups, not from a single quality opinion.
  • Prices are real prices. We track per-provider list pricing and observed latency, including retries, because a cheap render that fails is not cheap.
  • Deprecation warnings. When a vendor announces a sunset date, the model is flagged everywhere on the site.

Independence

We take no vendor sponsorships and no paid placements. We do earn affiliate commission when you sign up through a provider link. Ranking order is produced entirely by the blind test pipeline and is never adjusted for commercial reasons.

Team

Benchmark lead

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Raters panel

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Data engineering

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Contact

Corrections, missing models or pricing changes: hello@vidbenchmark.com

Deployment and hosting

Current preview
https://id-preview--722617b0-aba9-475d-846c-7209f2332ad4.lovable.app
Published URL
https://ai-vid-score.lovable.app
Custom domain target
vidbenchmark.com (DNS on Cloudflare)
DNS setup
CNAME vidbenchmark.com to ai-vid-score.lovable.app. Keep the Cloudflare proxy (orange cloud) OFF initially to avoid a redirect loop; it can be enabled once the certificate is issued.
SSL
Provisioned automatically by Lovable hosting.
CI
Merges to main build with Bun and deploy to Cloudflare Pages (project vidbenchmark) via wrangler-action.
Sample video storage
Cloudflare R2, naming convention documented in /README-samples.txt.
vidbenchmark is independent: blind same-prompt tests, real per-provider prices, no vendor sponsorships. Catalog last updated 2026-08-04.