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Sora 2
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Sora 2 is a closed-weights video model from OpenAI, released October 2025. Licence: proprietary.
$ how it compares
The video models ranked either side of Sora 2, out of 139 with a score, then more from OpenAI.
| # | model | score | where | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 65±2 | comparison only | |||
| 26 | 65±7 | api $0.28/sec | |||
| 27 | 65±2 | comparison only | |||
| 28 | 65±1 | api $0.10/sec | |||
| 29 | 65±7 | comparison only | |||
| more from OpenAI | |||||
| 20 | 68±2 | comparison only | |||
| 98 | 42±2 | comparison only | |||
$ what it's good at
text to video▇▅▄▆█▆▇▂▃▃▂▄ #18 of 94 · 51% of its score · 5 tests
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena video | 1342.6 ✎ | ▂▂▃▆█▆·▆▅▁▂▇ beats 28/41 | 39% |
| VideoVerse overall (Gemini 2.5 Pro judge) | 1298.94 / 1608 ✎ | █·▄··▄·····█ beats 5/5 | 3.7% |
| VABench T2AV micro Visual QA | 79.9% ✎ | ▄····▄····▄█ beats 3/4 | 3.4% |
| Sci-VBench testmini (expert human rating) | 53.6% ✎ | ▅·▃█▃·▅▃▅▃▃▃ beats 9/14 | 3.4% |
| HumanScore (T2V) | 86.1% ✎ | ▂··▂··█▄▂··▆ beats 6/11 | 1.0% |
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.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| WorldReasonBench human Elo (image+text-to-video world-state prediction) | 1118.0 ✎ | ▃▃··█··▃▃▃·▃ beats 5/8 | 27% |
| Target-Bench v2 (VGGT planning score, I2V) | 20.7% ✎ | ▃·▃···▃▃█·▃▃ beats 4/8 | 9.0% |
| VGI-Bench visual reasoning (I2V) | 36.7% ✎ | ▄▄···▄▄█·█·▄ beats 5/8 | 4.9% |
| VWG-Bench think-with-video reasoning (overall) | 68.8% ✎ | █··▄······▄█ beats 3/5 | 3.9% |
| Physics-IQ Verified (I2V, best-practice prompts) | 26.5% ✎ | ██···█··█·██ beats 1/5 | 1.8% |
| V-ReasonBench (average pass@5) | 43.9% ✎ | █·····▄···▄▄ beats 4/4 | 1.5% |
$ where to run it
No verified API or download recorded yet · add one
$ 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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