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Best Video Generation AI tools

Apps and open-source skills for video generation that we opened, read up on, and ranked — with the reasoning behind every pick.

APP / SAAS6
1G
Google Veo (Flow)
HighPaid (Google AI/Gemini plan)
9.4
2R
Runway
HighFreemium
9.1
3K
Kling AI
HighFreemium
8.8
4P
Pika
MediumFreemium
7.3
5L
Luma Dream Machine
MediumFreemium
7.0
6S
Seedance (ByteDance)
LowPaid (usage-based)
5.4
SKILL / REPO9
1O
Open-Sora (hpcaitech)
HighFree / OSS
9.4
2W
Wan (Alibaba, Wan2.2)
HighFree / OSS
9.1
3H
HunyuanVideo (Tencent)
HighFree / OSS
8.8
4C
CogVideo / CogVideoX (Zhipu)
HighFree / OSS
8.5
5L
LTX-Video (Lightricks)
HighFree / OSS
8.2
6M
Mochi 1 (Genmo)
MediumFree / OSS
7.3
7C
Claude Code Video Toolkit (digitalsamba)
MediumFree / OSS
7.0
8V
video-generation (ByteDance DeerFlow)
MediumFree / OSS
6.7
9C
claude-remotion-skill (haidrrrry)
LowFree / OSS
5.4