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Veo 3.1 Fast is a closed-weights video model from Google, released October 2025. Licence: proprietary.

68.1±1.3#18 of 93 video modelsfrom 8 benchmark results across 7 sources

$ how it compares

The video models ranked either side of Veo 3.1 Fast, out of 139 with a score, then more from Google.

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19Veo 3.1 Google69±1api $0.40/sec2025-10
20Sora 2 Pro OpenAI68±2comparison only2025-10
21Veo 3.1 Fast Google68±1api $0.10/sec2025-10
22Kling 3.0 Kuaishou (Kling AI)68±4api $0.084/sec2026-02
23Wan 2.7 Alibaba68±2api $0.10/sec2026-04
more from Google
1Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Google81±2api $0.10/sec2026-08
3Gemini Omni Flash Google80±2api $0.10/sec2026-05
25Veo 3 Fast Google65±2comparison only2025-07

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$ what it's good at

text to video▆▄▃▄▆▅█▃▂▃▂▄ #11 of 68 · 38% of its score · 4 tests

Beats Grok Imagine Video here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena video1361.9 ✎▂▂▃▆█▆·▆▅▁▂▇ beats 30/41avg 1147▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 31%typical
WorldJen human preference (Bradley-Terry)1614.0 ✎█···██·█··██ beats 5/5avg 1470▇▇ 4.4%typical
Sci-VBench testmini (expert human rating)55.8% ✎▅·▃█▃·▅▃▅▃▃▃ beats 10/14hard · avg 44%▇ 2.7%blunt · at its level
HumanScore (T2V)85.9% ✎▂··▂··█▄▂··▆ beats 5/11easy · avg 84%▇ 0.7%blunt
image to video▁▂·▂▅█▅▄▅▆▃▄ #15 of 50 · 61% of its score · 4 tests

Beats HappyHorse 1.1, Veo 3.1 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Kling 3.0 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
WorldReasonBench human Elo (image+text-to-video world-state prediction)1253.0 ✎▃▃··█··▃▃▃·▃ beats 7/8avg 875▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 21%sharp
Arena image-to-video1385.1 ✎▁▁▁▁▄▇▃▆▃▃▄█ beats 27/40avg 1189▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%typical
Rapidata physics realism (I2V, with reference)1068.0 ✎▂··▂▂▆█▆▂▂▆▄ beats 7/19avg 741▇▇▇▇▇ 12%sharp
Target-Bench v2 (VGGT planning score, I2V)19.2% ✎▃·▃···▃▃█·▃▃ beats 3/8very hard · avg 9.6%▇▇▇ 7.7%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · $0.10/sec · ai.google.dev ↗ · price sourceUSD per generated video second at 720p WITH audio on Gemini Developer API. Only successfully generated videos billed; other resolutions differ. Product: Gemini Developer API. API model: veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview. Settings: resolution=720p, audio=yes, tier=paid. Price basis: per second of successfully generated output. Currency: USD.

$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 51%, WorldReasonBench: Human-Align… 21%, Rapidata/world-model-physics… 12% and 4 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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