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Every test here gives several models the same brief and lines up what each one made, cut to the same frame and played right on this page. Pick what you’re making and look for yourself.

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Skateboarder over a puddle

Our runJames Greene ·

“Golden hour on a wet city street. A skateboarder rolls toward the camera, ollies over a wide puddle and lands clean, water spraying up from the wheels, then rolls on past. Low tracking shot moving backward ahead of the rider. Sound: wheels on asphalt, the clack of the board on take-off and landing, the splash.”

6 seconds, 16:9, 720p where offered. Sound on wherever the model makes it. Each model’s defaults otherwise, no rerolls, no edits.

A spoken line, then flames

Independent testThe Krea Team ·

“Medium close-up, 50mm. A night-market noodle vendor in a white apron stands behind a steaming wok under bare hanging bulbs. He looks into the camera and says: "Thirty years. Same pan, same recipe." Then he tosses the noodles high and flames jump up from the wok. Camera: gentle living handheld that barely breathes, slight push-in. Audio: his voice, sizzling oil, crowd chatter, distant scooters. Photorealistic, warm practical light.”

An ollie over five stairs

Independent testThe Krea Team ·

“Low wide shot, 24mm. A skateboarder in a red hoodie rolls from frame-left toward a set of five concrete stairs in an empty plaza at golden hour, pops an ollie and travels three meters through the air over the stairs, lands on the flat ground with the board flexing and grit spraying from the wheels, then rides out to frame-right. Camera: tracking left to right at natural realtime speed, no slow motion. Audio: wheels rolling on concrete, the pop of the tail, the slap of the landing, distant birds.”

A dripper on a turntable

Independent testAnvisha Pai / Voyager ·

“A matte black ceramic pour-over coffee dripper rotating slowly on a white turntable, soft studio light, seamless white background, product video, no text.”

Good morning, the coffee is ready

Independent testAnvisha Pai / Voyager ·

“A woman in her 40s with short grey hair stands in a bright kitchen, looks at the camera and says 'Good morning, the coffee is ready', natural window light, handheld feel, she smiles at the end.”

In production.

Claudia

anabology’s character carries nine short films, and the project publishes what made each one: Midjourney V8.2 for the character plates, GPT Image 2.5 for fixes, Seedance 2.5 for most of the video, Suno for music.

How the face stays the same

SLOPCANNON

The music-video engine at slop.cc names its video model in a public capabilities feed: MiniMax Hailuo 3. Upload a song and up to nine reference images, and it builds 5 to 15 second scenes against the whole track, up to 2K.

Read the capabilities feed

How to read this.

No scores and no winner. A model is only as good as the job you give it, so each test keeps its brief, its settings and the name of whoever ran it. Every clip and image is a copy of their original, cut down to the model’s own output so the tiles line up. The original is one click away on every test.

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Our run
We sent one brief to every model we could reach, took the first answer from each, and changed nothing.
Independent test
Someone who doesn’t make these models gave them the same brief. Settings and picks can still differ.
Benchmark
A published evaluation with its own protocol. We show one of its prompts.
Same-prompt test
The same brief for every model, from a publisher whose ties to the models aren’t fully clear.
Vendor test
Run by a company that makes one of the models, and it picked the examples.
Creator post
A side-by-side someone posted. Their prompt and settings are as they describe them.
Benchmarks that publish scores, not pictures 24