Best image-to-video model, October 2026: Wan 3.0 is 7th at 1,164 Elo

On Artificial Analysis's image-to-video board (AA-Video-I2V v1.0) MiniMax H3 Max leads at 1,195 Elo and $4.80 per minute, and Wan 3.0, first on text-to-video, is seventh at 1,164. If you animate a still, the model to try first is H3 Max (minimax-h3-max on Sume, $6.00 per minute at 768p), and the second is Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 (gemini-omni-flash-1.1).

Six of the twelve entries have a Sume id. This page lists which ones, with the Sume price per minute.

Top 12 and where each runs

The board ranks animating a source image into video with audio, by Elo from pairwise human votes. The last column checks each name against Sume's video id list (twelve ids in the repo this week).

Sume price for the callable ones

Sume bills list times 1.25. These per-minute figures use the per-second list in Sume's price table at the resolution named.

How to send the still

Every one of these takes the still as a first frame. On /v1/videos you send it in frame_images with frame_type set to first_frame and a public HTTPS URL. Read supported_frame_images from GET /v1/videos/models to see which ids also take a last_frame. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is image-to-video only on Sume, so it has no text-only mode.

Pick by what the still needs

Choose H3 Max for the price per minute and for 5 to 15 second clips. Choose Wan 3.0 when you need more than 15 seconds from one still, since it takes up to 30. Choose Omni when you need 1080p or 4K and a 3 to 10 second clip. Before you commit to a batch, see how the Wan 3.0 text-to-video lead compares, because the same model ranks differently by task.

Cost of a still-to-clip test

To test the board's order on your own stills, send the same first frame to the cheapest board models and one expensive one. For a 5 second clip at 720p, Wan 3.0 costs $0.625, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 $0.625, MiniMax H3 Max at 768p $0.50 and Seedance 2.0 $1.89. The four together are $3.64.

Use the same prompt and the same still for every model and look at the first second of each clip. Motion that drifts away from the still is the usual failure, and a board score will not tell you how a given product photo behaves.