The best ai video generators, according to hackers

9 ai video generators recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.

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Seedance 2.0Recommended for high-quality AI video with consistent characters, long shots and cinematic motion. Common caveat: clips still look like AI video, with stiff motion and over-restrictive filters.68recommend
MiniMax H3Open-weight AI video model that people run locally to make short clips quickly. Critics find results inconsistent, often bland, and behind rival video models.29recommend
Google VeoPeople recommend Veo for realistic, high-quality AI video output, and some rank it above Sora. Critics most often point to strict safety filters and inconsistent results across clips.20recommend
Gemini OmniGoogle's video model, praised for realistic, high-quality clips and quick low-resolution previews; critics point to physics and geometry errors and say it trails Seedance 2.0.16recommend
Wan video modelOpen-weights AI video generator praised for output quality and running on home hardware. Most common caveat: local runs are cumbersome and need a lot of memory.15recommend
Kling AIPeople recommend Kling as one of the top AI video generators for cinematic motion, fidelity and longer 15-second clips.14recommend
LTX-VideoFree open video model that generates clips quickly on a consumer GPU, with synchronized audio. Critics say it trails closed Chinese models and struggles with camera moves.11recommend
Higgsfield AIPeople recommend it for advanced controls and access to frontier video models, while critics call the company unethical and its advertising misleading.6recommend
Apple open-weights video model (7B)Open-weights 7B video model from Apple that people find good for its size and a promising proof of concept. Main caveat: its license is a custom MIT-style license, not plain MIT.5recommend