Google
7.0/10
- Realistic motion and prompt adherence with native synchronized audio
- Strong for cinematic scenes and ambience out of the box
- Availability and pricing vary by platform and SKU
- Generation still limited to relatively short clip lengths
Tencent
HunyuanVideo 1.5
3.4/10
- Maker
- Tencent
- Origin
- China
- Released
- Nov 21, 2025
- Category
- Video Generation
Strengths & weaknesses
- Efficient enough to render on a single consumer GPU
- Open-weight, with an active community of fine-tunes
- Smaller model size trades away some quality ceiling
- Still catching up to proprietary leaders on realism
Evaluation
100% of weight measuredScored on HunyuanVideo 1.5 · sources as of Nov 4, 2026
Confidence band 3.4–4.0 · a model inside this range isn’t meaningfully apart from this one
- Text-to-videow602.8
Rule B1,169 rating (95% 1,153–1,185) from 4,292 votes · Scale 1,000–1,550, 0 to 10 · LMArena text-to-video arena (hunyuan-video-1.5) · Sep 22, 2026
- Image-to-videow404.2
Rule B1,198 rating (95% 1,182–1,213) from 5,462 votes · Scale 950–1,500, 0 to 10 · LMArena image-to-video arena (hunyuan-video-1.5) · Sep 22, 2026
w = weight, each criterion’s share of the overall score. Missing marks don’t count for or against. How scoring works
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