Google DeepMind's realism benchmark: footage that passes as real, with ambient sound and spoken dialogue generated in the same pass. Type a prompt below and try it.
Developer
Google DeepMind
Type
Text / image to video
Audio
Native, with dialogue
Duration
8 s per clip
Max output
1080p
Render time
1–3 min
Tier here
Paid credits
Our one-line verdict: when the clip has to pass as footage, render it on Veo. When you're still exploring, draft on the fast tiers first.
Veo is the model the newcomers get measured against. Every flagship that shipped this summer — Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0, FLUX 3 — put Veo in its comparison charts, because it holds the two things that are hardest to fake: physical realism that survives scrutiny, and a track record longer than a launch week. Its native audio still does what most rivals can't: a quoted line of dialogue in the prompt comes back spoken, synced to the face.
Judged from our own renders and the published record, revised as the facts move — that's a feature of this page, not a disclaimer.
• Physical realism.
Light bounces, fabric drapes, liquids pour like liquids. The fewest 'AI tells' of anything we host, and the default answer when a client will look closely.
• Native audio with dialogue.
Ambience, effects and short spoken lines synced to the action. Write the sound into the prompt and it renders — no scoring pass.
• Prompt adherence.
Camera directions — dolly, pan, rack focus — are followed, not merely inspired by. Shot-list prompts pay off here more than anywhere.
• Proven track record.
Independent rankings, months of production use, known failure modes. In a summer of week-old flagships, boring reliability is a feature.
• 8-second ceiling.
The shortest clips in our current lineup — Seedance 2.5 reaches 30 seconds, FLUX 3 twenty. Longer pieces mean chaining and planning cuts.
• Cost and speed.
1–3 minutes per render at the highest credit cost here. It's the finishing model, not the sketching model.
• Strictest filters.
Public figures, kids, violence — refused at the model level. Blocked jobs don't burn credits here, but expect some rewording.
• Stylized animation.
Anime and handmade looks come out oddly glossy. FLUX 3 and Seedance handle stylization better.
Copy into the generator above, swap the brackets, render.
"Medium close-up of a [weathered fisherman] on a dock at dawn, looking just past camera. He says: 'Storm's coming in early this year.' Gulls in the distance, rope creaking. Overcast light, documentary style."
Quoted dialogue generates spoken audio synced to the face. Keep lines under ~10 words. The demo beside the generator is this exact prompt.
"Slow 180° orbit around a [matte black espresso machine] on a concrete counter. Steam rises; we hear the low hiss of the steam wand and soft café ambience. Morning window light, shallow depth of field, 35mm."
Writing the audio into the prompt ('we hear...') is the Veo-specific move — half the value is in that sentence.
Upload: a still image
"Subtle handheld movement, as if filmed on a phone. The [subject] breathes and shifts weight naturally; background stays fixed. Quiet room tone, distant traffic."
'As if filmed on a phone' grounds the physics, and minimal motion instructions keep faces from drifting in image-to-video.
Three audio-native models. Same prompts across all three, judged by what we'd ship — this table mirrors the one on the FLUX 3 page, so the data agrees wherever you land. All three selectable in the generator above.
sharper physics, longer coherent motion, more reliable dialogue sync. The version in the generator above.
the release that made 'AI video with sound' a category; the viral street-interview clips were this version.
solid silent video, largely research-facing. The audio leap turned it from a demo into a tool.
Google DeepMind's video generation model — the strongest at footage that reads as real, with audio generated natively alongside the picture: ambience, effects, and short dialogue. Works from text or animates a still, at up to 1080p, 8 seconds per clip.
The director. Multi-shot storytelling up to 4K with Director Mode.
The long take. 30-second shots cut to your soundtrack.
The stylist. Keyframe control and looks from cinematic to stop-motion.