Video Generation · sub-raceNarrow lead
Image-to-Video race
Animating a supplied image into video, judged by blind votes.
- Leader
- H3
- Margin
- 7 Elo
- 0.5% ahead
- Weeks at #1
- 11
- in a row
- Changes
- 2
- in 2026
Warming up the track…
Oct 20, 2026H3 leads
2025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
Score history
Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week
#1 frontierH3Omni Flash 1.1Wan 3.0Seedance 2.5Imagine 1.5FLUX.3 Video
Reigns at #1
Longest: Veo 3.1, 25 weeks (from Oct 2025).
Sibling races
More video generation races
Why this race matters
Starting from a reference image is how most professional video work keeps characters and products consistent.
How it is scored
LMArena Image-to-Video leaderboard: ratings from blind pairwise votes.
Unit: eloHigher is betterPhoto finish under 5 EloDominant over 30 Elo
Data provenance
Blind pairwise votes, reported as Bradley-Terry ratings on an Elo scale. Data: lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, CC BY 4.0.
LMArena Image-to-Video · LMArena
Weekly history from the source's published leaderboards.
17 tracked models with a result (48 entries on the source board) · newest data September 22, 2026.