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Sora 2 is a closed-weights video model from OpenAI, released October 2025. Licence: proprietary.

65.1±1.5comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 11 benchmark results across 11 sources

$ how it compares

The video models ranked either side of Sora 2, out of 139 with a score, then more from OpenAI.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
25Veo 3 Fast Google65±2comparison only2025-07
26Runway Aleph 2.0 Runway65±7api $0.28/sec2026-05
27Sora 2 OpenAI65±2comparison only2025-10
28Wan 2.6 Alibaba65±1api $0.10/sec2025-12
29Wan2.1-VACE-14B Alibaba65±7comparison only2025-05
more from OpenAI
20Sora 2 Pro OpenAI68±2comparison only2025-10
98Sora (original, 2024) OpenAI42±2comparison only2024-12

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$ what it's good at

text to video▇▅▄▆█▆▇▂▃▃▂▄ #18 of 94 · 51% of its score · 5 tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena video1342.6 ✎▂▂▃▆█▆·▆▅▁▂▇ beats 28/41avg 1147▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%typical
VideoVerse overall (Gemini 2.5 Pro judge)1298.94 / 1608 ✎█·▄··▄·····█ beats 5/5easy · avg 1103.17 / 1608▇ 3.7%typical
VABench T2AV micro Visual QA79.9% ✎▄····▄····▄█ beats 3/4easy · avg 68%▇ 3.4%typical
Sci-VBench testmini (expert human rating)53.6% ✎▅·▃█▃·▅▃▅▃▃▃ beats 9/14hard · avg 44%▇ 3.4%blunt · at its level
HumanScore (T2V)86.1% ✎▂··▂··█▄▂··▆ beats 6/11easy · avg 84%▇ 1.0%blunt
image to video▁▁▂▂██▄▃▃▄▂▂ #23 of 74 · 48% of its score · 6 tests

Beats HappyHorse 1.1 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Runway Gen-4.5, Kling 2.6 Pro, Wan 2.6 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
WorldReasonBench human Elo (image+text-to-video world-state prediction)1118.0 ✎▃▃··█··▃▃▃·▃ beats 5/8avg 875▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 27%sharp
Target-Bench v2 (VGGT planning score, I2V)20.7% ✎▃·▃···▃▃█·▃▃ beats 4/8very hard · avg 9.6%▇▇▇▇ 9.0%typical
VGI-Bench visual reasoning (I2V)36.7% ✎▄▄···▄▄█·█·▄ beats 5/8hard · avg 20%▇▇ 4.9%at its level
VWG-Bench think-with-video reasoning (overall)68.8% ✎█··▄······▄█ beats 3/5medium · avg 50%▇▇ 3.9%at its level
Physics-IQ Verified (I2V, best-practice prompts)26.5% ✎██···█··█·██ beats 1/5hard · avg 25%▇ 1.8%blunt · at its level
V-ReasonBench (average pass@5)43.9% ✎█·····▄···▄▄ beats 4/4hard · avg 17%▇ 1.5%at its level · noisy

$ where to run it

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$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 39%, WorldReasonBench: Human-Align… 27%, Target-Bench: Can Video World… 9% and 8 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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