The AI video generation landscape has exploded in 2025, with new models launching every month, it’s hard keeping up. Each offers different strengths, pricing models, and capabilities. This comprehensive guide breaks down the leading AI video models available today, helping you choose the right tool for your specific needs.
To help you quickly compare the leading AI video models of 2025, we’ve compiled a detailed feature-by-feature breakdown. This table highlights the key capabilities of the top AI video models, helping you choose the right tools for your AI filmmaking journey.
You can explore many of these top models directly on Atlabs.ai.
Google Veo3 | Google Veo2 | Bytedance | Kuaishou | Kuaishou | Minimax | Minimax | Minimax | Runway Gen-4 | Alibaba | Luma | OpenAI Sora | |
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Resolution | 720p | 720p | 480p, 1080p | 720p, 1080p | 720p, 1080p | 1080p | 720p | 720p | 720p | 480p, 720p | 540p, 720p | 720p |
Duration | 8s | 5-8s | 5s/10s | 5s/10s | 5s/10s | 6s/10s | 5s | 5s | 5s/10s | 5s | 5s/9s | 5s-20s |
FPS | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 30 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 16 | 24 | 30 |
Text-to-Video | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Image to Video | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
First Frame & Last Frame | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Subject references | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
native audio | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
TL;DR | Great prompt adherence, Realistic physics, native audio(Veo3 only) , natural expressions | Multi-shot storytelling, smooth & stable motion | Very good at physics and realistic motion, Incredible instruction following, takes a little longer time to generate | Incredible at complex motions like gymnastics,less safety filter | Good for anime, 2D, 3D cartoons (non human photorealistic videos) | Greate for camera motion control for different shots | good cinematic quality output, not excellent in complex prompts | Best open sourced video model, Fine tuning highly customizable, open weights, need upscaler to improve the resolution and FPS | Decent cinematic quality and realism | not good at motion realism and physics | ||
Google Veo 3 is currently the most advanced and realistic AI video generator available. It supports both text-to-video and image-to-video, and uniquely includes native audio, ultra-realistic lip-sync, and expressive human-like faces. With synced dialogue and smooth, cinematic camera movements, Veo 3 opens the door for anyone to create studio-quality videos—no crew or equipment needed. This is a game-changer for storytelling.
Want to give it a spin?
👉 Visit Atlabs.ai to try Veo 3
Not sure how to get the best results with Veo 3? Check out our prompting guide for Veo 3 to level up your outputs.
