Best Performing Models8 models
Phase
LeaderboardPairwise comparison
1624
Seedance 2.5
H3 Max
Seedance 2.0
Veo 3.1
Grok Imagine
Gemini Omni Flash
Kling V3.0 Pro
Ray V3.2

General preference · Prompt adherence · Usability · Visual aesthetics

Minimax H3 MaxNew entryCinema Video08/31/2026

Minimax H3 Max: The fastest model for on-brand execution

  • H3 Max is great at executing based on an established direction. It wins 59.5% of comparisons in Mockup and 56.8% in Refinement, when it starts from an approved frame.
  • In contrast, H3 Max only wins 43.8% in Ideation, when it has to ideate from the prompt alone.
  • Expert video creators picked H3 Max for staying on brand: it keeps the product's label and shape the way the approved frame had them, while other models redesigned the bottle.
  • H3 Max makes mistakes on prompt adherence and physics: it ignores the motion the brief asks for, and mishandles what moves in the background. A brief that asked for a slow arc around the product came back locked in a static front view, a bird meant to stay in the far canopy glitched across the middle of the frame, and a leaf meant to fall behind the bottle dropped in front of it and clipped through the glass.
  • Expert video creators also complained about lighting in two of the three campaigns' outputs, calling it flat and artificial next to the alternative.
Share of winning explanations citing brand fidelity
H3 Max
32.1%
Grok Imagine
22.2%
Gemini Omni Flash
18.2%
Seedance 2.0
16.7%
Seedance 2.5
7.7%

Qualitative winning explanations · explicit brand, label, identity, consistency, and preservation language · H3 Max: 18/56 comments, Grok Imagine: 2/9, Gemini Omni Flash: 2/11, Seedance 2.0: 2/12, Seedance 2.5: 1/13.

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  1. 1Seedance 2.51624
  2. 2H3 Max1586
  3. 3Seedance 2.01577
  4. 4Veo 3.11511
  5. 5Grok Imagine1481
  6. 6Gemini Omni Flash1449
  7. 7Kling V3.0 Pro1410
  8. 8Ray V3.21360
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