Kling 3.0 tops the AI video leaderboard as Sora exits
Chinese models now dominate the text-to-video arena, with Kling, Seedance and Happy Horse leading a category OpenAI is stepping back from.
NFNiko Ferrar
Published 7 Jul 2026, 05:09Updated 28 Jul 2026, 22:381 min read
- ▸Kling v3 leads the text-to-video leaderboard with an arena score of 2010
- ▸Seedance 2.0 Fast follows at 1784, with Happy Horse 1.0 at 1769
- ▸Chinese labs — ByteDance, Alibaba and Kuaishou — now dominate the top of the rankings
- ▸Kling 3.0 offers realistic iterations at roughly $0.11 to $0.14 per second of generated video
A leaderboard reshuffle with a geography story
The shift toward Chinese-developed models at the top of the video arena tracks a broader pattern this year: aggressive pricing and rapid iteration from Chinese labs squeezing Western incumbents just as compute costs made some of those incumbents' products unsustainable.
Source: Artificial Analysis
