# HeyGen’s first general-purpose video model, Video 1, ranks first on Artificial Analysis’ silent video board and fourth on its main board

> HeyGen said on October 22 that Video 1 ranked first in text-to-video in a blind test; on October 27 it was fourth on the main board and first on the silent one.

- Publisher: JARRUS (@jarrus.tech), thejarrus.com
- Story date: Oct. 22, 2026 (2026-10-22)
- Published: 2026-10-27
- Tags: Image and video, Models
- URL: https://thejarrus.com/en/news/heygen-video-1/

HeyGen, known for AI avatar videos, said on X on October 22 that HeyGen Video 1, its first general-purpose video model, ranked first in text-to-video in a blind test on Artificial Analysis. The model generates short scenes from text, an image or reference images. According to HeyGen, it produces the picture, dialogue and sound effects of a scene in one pass.

Per its API documentation on OpenRouter, clips run 5 to 15 seconds at 480p, 768p or 2K, in six aspect ratios from 21:9 to 9:16. HeyGen's launch price on its API is $0.01 per second through October. The model itself isn't new: it has been listed on OpenRouter since September 30. What was new in October was the ranking.

As of October 27, Artificial Analysis' leaderboard, based on blind votes, shows a different picture. On the main text-to-video board (AA-Video-T2V v2.1), HeyGen Video 1 is **fourth with an Elo score of 1,157**, behind Alibaba's Wan 3.0 (1,174), Utopai X (1,168) and MiniMax H3 (1,158). On the separate silent video board, HeyGen Video 1 leads with 1,143, ahead of Wan 3.0 (1,133). The gaps at the top are small, and the rankings can shift as new votes come in.

## Sources

1. [HeyGen (X): Announcement of the first-place blind test result, Oct. 22, 2026](https://x.com/HeyGen/status/2113325916181102761)
2. [HeyGen: HeyGen Video 1: Text, Image and Reference to Video](https://www.heygen.com/blog/introducing-heygen-video)
3. [Artificial Analysis: Text to Video Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video)
4. [OpenRouter: HeyGen Video, Sept. 30, 2026](https://openrouter.ai/heygen/heygen-video-1)

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