Original study · Data version 2026-09-26
AI Video Model Benchmark 2026
Speed, cost and success rate, measured on 787 real production jobs.
The short answer
Across 337 AI video jobs FXI Studio ran between June 28, 2026 and September 26, 2026, MiniMax H3 Turbo was the fastest model (median 7 s, n=30) and Grok Imagine Video the most reliable (100% success, n=45). Seedance-family models were the slowest and failed most often (66.7% success across 48 jobs), mostly on the model's own content and copyright checks. Most runs in this window came from FXI's own production and QA work; all figures are measured job outcomes.
- Jobs measured
- 787
- Video jobs
- 337
- Window
- 90 days
- Image jobs
- 450
At a glance
Speed against price.
Median generation time vs price per clip
MiniMax H3 Turbo and P-Video are faster and cheaper than the average ranked video model (median 2 min 24 s, $0.93 a clip). Seedance 2.0 is the most expensive at $2.50 a clip, with a median of 4 min 57 s. Bubble area is jobs run; colour is success rate.
- 95%+ success
- 85–95% success
- Under 85% success
- Bubble area = jobs run
View the data as a table
| Model | Median time | Price / 5s clip | Success | Jobs | Faster + cheaper than avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax H3 Turbo | 7 s | $0.25 | 100% | 30 | Yes |
| P-Video | 16 s | $0.63 | 96.2% | 105 | Yes |
| Grok Imagine Video | 51 s | $1.00 | 100% | 45 | No |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | 2 min 38 s | $0.63 | 65% | 20 | No |
| FLUX 3 Video · Draft | 3 min 9 s | $0.38 | 82.2% | 45 | No |
| FLUX 3 Video | 4 min 50 s | $1.13 | 91.3% | 23 | No |
| Seedance 2.0 | 4 min 57 s | $2.50 | 67.9% | 28 | No |
Results · Video
Every video model with 20+ jobs.
Sorted by volume. Price is FXI’s current list price for a 5-second clip; USD uses the Creator plan rate ($0.025 per credit; Studio works out to $0.016). Success shows the rate and its 95% interval, because small samples deserve wide error bars.
| Model | Credits / 5s clip | ≈ USD / 5s clip | Median time | p90 time | Success | n | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P-Video | 25 | $0.63 | 16 s | 37 s | 96.2%90.6%–98.5% | 105 | Fast utility transitions and first-frame/last-frame in-betweens. Not the pick for story scenes. |
| FLUX 3 Video · Draft | 15 | $0.38 | 3 min 9 s | 5 min 11 s | 82.2%68.7%–90.7% | 45 | Cheap long-take drafts (up to 20 s) before paying for a full render. |
| Grok Imagine Video | 40 | $1.00 | 51 s | 67 s | 100%92.1%–100% | 45 | Quick five-second single-shot motion tests with a predictable turnaround. |
| MiniMax H3 Turbo | 10 | $0.25 | 7 s | 12 s | 100%88.6%–100% | 30 | The cheapest, fastest preview for blocking an idea. |
| Seedance 2.0 | 100 | $2.50 | 4 min 57 s | 10 min 39 s | 67.9%49.3%–82.1% | 28 | Hero shots with synchronized audio and multi-reference direction. |
| FLUX 3 Video | 45 | $1.13 | 4 min 50 s | 9 min 5 s | 91.3%73.2%–97.6% | 23 | Long single takes up to 20 s at 720p when the draft is approved. |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | 25 | $0.63 | 2 min 38 s | 3 min 52 s | 65%43.3%–81.9% | 20 | First-pass drafts of Director film scenes, frame-chained shot to shot. |
Generation time
Median bar, whisker out to the 90th percentile; shorter is faster. MiniMax H3 Turbo is quickest at a median 7 s; Seedance 2.0 is slowest at 4 min 57 s (p90 10 min 39 s).
View the data as a table
| Model | Median | p90 | Successful jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax H3 Turbo | 7 s | 12 s | 30 |
| P-Video | 16 s | 37 s | 101 |
| Grok Imagine Video | 51 s | 67 s | 45 |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | 2 min 38 s | 3 min 52 s | 13 |
| FLUX 3 Video · Draft | 3 min 9 s | 5 min 11 s | 37 |
| FLUX 3 Video | 4 min 50 s | 9 min 5 s | 21 |
| Seedance 2.0 | 4 min 57 s | 10 min 39 s | 19 |
Success rate
Share of jobs that delivered a file, with the 95% Wilson interval. Grok Imagine Video leads at 100% (n=45); Seedance 2.0 Mini trails at 65% (n=20).
View the data as a table
| Model | Success | 95% interval | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grok Imagine Video | 100% | 92.1%–100% | 45 |
| MiniMax H3 Turbo | 100% | 88.6%–100% | 30 |
| P-Video | 96.2% | 90.6%–98.5% | 105 |
| FLUX 3 Video | 91.3% | 73.2%–97.6% | 23 |
| FLUX 3 Video · Draft | 82.2% | 68.7%–90.7% | 45 |
| Seedance 2.0 | 67.9% | 49.3%–82.1% | 28 |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | 65% | 43.3%–81.9% | 20 |
What a usable clip really costs
List price divided by success rate is what a usable clip costs if every failed attempt were paid for and re-run. MiniMax H3 Turbo is cheapest per delivered clip at $0.25; Seedance 2.0 climbs from $2.50 to $3.68. This is a worst case: failures that are refunded bring the real figure down.
- List price per 5s clip
- Added by failed attempts
View the data as a table
| Model | List price | Success | Per delivered clip |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax H3 Turbo | $0.25 | 100% | $0.25 |
| FLUX 3 Video · Draft | $0.38 | 82.2% | $0.46 |
| P-Video | $0.63 | 96.2% | $0.65 |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | $0.63 | 65% | $0.97 |
| Grok Imagine Video | $1.00 | 100% | $1.00 |
| FLUX 3 Video | $1.13 | 91.3% | $1.24 |
| Seedance 2.0 | $2.50 | 67.9% | $3.68 |
Results · Image
Image models with 20+ jobs
| Model | Credits / image | ≈ USD / image | Median time | p90 time | Success | n | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z-Image Turbo | 2 | $0.05 | 20 s | 23 s | 98.5%95.7%–99.5% | 199 | Free, fast drafts and storyboard stills. |
| Nano Banana Pro | 6 | $0.15 | 28 s | 44 s | 96.6%91.5%–98.7% | 117 | Hero stills where reference fidelity and legible text matter. |
| Nano Banana 2 | 4 | $0.10 | 39 s | 2 min 6 s | 100%92.1%–100% | 45 | Everyday edits and consistent-character stills. |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite | 2 | $0.05 | 33 s | 77 s | 97.4%86.5%–99.5% | 38 | Budget iterations on a still. |
Not enough runs to rank (n < 20)
These models ran too few times in the window for a fair comparison. They are in the CSV with their raw counts, but we do not rank them or quote their rates.
- Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 · n=11
- Seedance 2.0 Fast · n=10
- Match Motion (Wan 2.2 VACE) · n=7
- MiniMax H3 Max · n=6
- Grok Imagine Video 1.5 · n=3
- Veo 3.1 Fast · n=1
- PixVerse V6 Reference · n=1
- P-Video Animate · n=1
- LTX 2.5 Fast · n=1
- Seedance 2.5 · n=0
- Z-Image Turbo (retired endpoint) · n=13
- GPT Image 2 · n=10
- Grok Imagine (image) · n=9
- Seedream 5 Lite · n=6
- Nano Banana · n=4
- FLUX 2 Pro · n=4
- GPT Image 2.5 · n=4
- Recraft V4 · n=1
Seedance 2.5 is priced at 190 credits per 5-second clip. It is reserved for an optional, approved final-cut pass on Director films, so it has no production runs yet in this window.
Key findings
What the numbers say.
- 7 s
MiniMax H3 Turbo is the fastest video model we run: median 7 s, p90 12 s across 30 jobs, and the cheapest at 10 credits a clip. That makes it the right tool for blocking ideas, not finishing them.
- 96.2%
P-Video carried the most volume (105 jobs) and finished 96.2% of them at a median of 16 s. That speed is why it handles utility transitions; for story scenes, Director films draft in Seedance 2.0 Mini instead.
- 12/16
Seedance failures are mostly policy, not outages. 12 of 16 failed Seedance jobs were rejected by the model’s own content and copyright checks, most often on generated audio. Success across the family was 66.7% (32/48).
- 4 min 57 s
Quality costs minutes. Seedance 2.0 had the slowest median at 4 min 57 s, with a p90 of 10 min 39 s. Budget for it: a six-shot film on the slowest model is a coffee break, not a click.
- $3.68
Failures reprice the list. Divide Seedance 2.0’s $2.50 list price by its 67.9% success rate and a usable clip costs about $3.68 if every failure were paid and re-run. MiniMax H3 Turbo stays the cheapest delivered clip at $0.25.
- 82.2%
FLUX 3 Video · Draft is cheap but patient. At 15 credits a 5-second clip it is among the lowest prices here, but it took a median 3 min 9 s, and 7 of its 8 failures were jobs that never came back within an hour.
- 98.5%
Stills are the reliable layer. Z-Image Turbo finished 98.5% of 199 images at a median 20 s across 25 accounts. Iterate on stills, lock the frame, then spend video credits once.
Methodology
How we measured it.
- Window and sample
- June 28, 2026 to September 26, 2026 (90 days). 787 generation jobs: 337 video, 450 image. Every job the generation pipeline dispatched is counted once, whichever model or surface started it.
- Who ran the jobs
- FXI Studio is in open beta. Most runs in this window came from FXI's own production and QA work; all figures are measured job outcomes. This is platform production data, not a customer survey, and every job hits the same models, queues and failure modes a customer's does.
- Success
- A job succeeds when it completes with a stored output file. Failures are jobs marked failed plus jobs still pending an hour after dispatch (never delivered). Jobs still in flight are excluded. Rates carry a 95% Wilson interval.
- Generation time
- Wall-clock seconds from job dispatch to the stored file, successful jobs only. It includes queueing and any automatic recovery, because that is what a person waiting sees. We report the median and the 90th percentile, not the mean.
- Price
- Current list price in FXI credits for one 5-second clip (or one image). Duration-priced models are base plus per-second rate times 5; flat-priced models use their flat price. USD uses the Creator plan's $0.025 per credit.
- Exclusions and limits
- Uploads, imports, re-encodes and marketing fixtures are not generation jobs and are excluded, as are 27 upscaler runs. Models with fewer than 20 jobs are listed but not ranked. Mode variants of one model (text-to-video, image-to-video, keyframes) are pooled, and clip lengths and resolutions vary by job, so times are indicative, not controlled. We do not score visual quality here.
How many runs back each number
695 jobs back the ranked rows. P-Video has the most video runs (n=105, success known to about ±3.9 points); Seedance 2.0 Mini has the fewest (n=20, ±19.3 points), so read its rate as a range, not a point.
- Delivered
- Failed
- Half-width of the 95% interval on success rate
View the data as a table
| Model | Type | Jobs | Delivered | Failed | ± points (95%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P-Video | Video | 105 | 101 | 4 | 3.9 |
| FLUX 3 Video · Draft | Video | 45 | 37 | 8 | 11 |
| Grok Imagine Video | Video | 45 | 45 | 0 | 3.9 |
| MiniMax H3 Turbo | Video | 30 | 30 | 0 | 5.7 |
| Seedance 2.0 | Video | 28 | 19 | 9 | 16.4 |
| FLUX 3 Video | Video | 23 | 21 | 2 | 12.2 |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | Video | 20 | 13 | 7 | 19.3 |
| Z-Image Turbo | Image | 199 | 196 | 3 | 1.9 |
| Nano Banana Pro | Image | 117 | 113 | 4 | 3.6 |
| Nano Banana 2 | Image | 45 | 45 | 0 | 3.9 |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite | Image | 38 | 37 | 1 | 6.5 |
The numbers are produced by a script that reads FXI’s generation log and writes the dataset behind this page. We refresh it monthly; the data version at the top of the page tells you which cut you are reading.
Cite this
Use the data. Link the source.
Suggested citation
FXI Studio (2026). AI Video Model Benchmark 2026: Speed, Cost and Success Rate (Real Production Data). Data version 2026-09-26, window 2026-06-28 to 2026-09-26. https://www.fxi.studio/tutorials/ai-video-model-benchmark-2026
- Last updated
- September 26, 2026
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Frequently asked
The benchmark, answered.
Which AI video model is fastest in 2026?
In FXI Studio's production data (June 28, 2026 to September 26, 2026), MiniMax H3 Turbo was the fastest AI video model with a median of 7 s from submit to finished clip across 30 jobs. P-Video was next at 16 s (n=105). Seedance 2.0 was the slowest, with a median of 4 min 57 s.
Which AI video model fails least often?
Grok Imagine Video completed 45 of 45 jobs (100%). P-Video, the highest-volume model, completed 96.2% of 105. Seedance 2.0 Mini had the lowest success rate at 65% (n=20).
Why do Seedance generations fail?
12 of the 16 failed Seedance jobs in this window were rejected by the model's own content and copyright checks, most often on generated audio. The rest were input or service errors. In our experience, keeping named songs, brands and lookalike voices out of the prompt and Sound line avoids most of them.
How much does a 5-second AI video clip cost?
On FXI Studio's list prices, a 5-second clip ranges from 10 to 100 credits across the benchmarked models, which is about $0.25 to $2.50 at the Creator plan's $0.025 per credit. Larger plans lower the per-credit price.
How was this AI video benchmark measured?
Every generation job FXI Studio dispatched in a 90-day window was counted. Success means the job finished with a stored file. Time is wall clock from submit to finished file, successful jobs only. Models with fewer than 20 jobs are listed separately and not ranked. Most runs in this window came from FXI's own production and QA work; all figures are measured job outcomes.
Can I use this data?
Yes. The dataset is free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to FXI Studio and a link to this page. A CSV download is provided, and the numbers are refreshed monthly; cite the data version (2026-09-26).
Go deeper on a model: the Seedance 2.0 shot-grammar guide, P-Video for seamless transitions, prompting Grok Imagine Video 1.5, when to use MiniMax and frame chaining. Every tool is explained in the documentation.
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