How Sora rates on seven criteria
Sora (OpenAI) rates 2.8 across the criteria that could be rated, a peak on picture quality, a floor on script handling, and one unrated column. Its strongest column is picture quality and its weakest is script handling. Every number describes what the vendor publishes, read on 2026-09-12. As of 2026-09-12.
| Criterion | Rating | What the vendor publishes |
|---|---|---|
| Script handling | 1 of 5 | Nothing published |
| Cast consistency | 2 of 5 | Partly documented |
| Shot control | 3 of 5 | Partly documented |
| Picture quality | 5 of 5 | Documented |
| Sound | 4 of 5 | Documented |
| Assembly | 2 of 5 | Partly documented |
| Cost transparency | Not rated | No usable statement |
Inclusion rule. The same seven criteria are applied to every tool rated here. A criterion the vendor does not address is left unrated rather than scored low. Order. Fixed criterion order, identical on every tool page.
1Where this tool sits on its own strongest and weakest columns
| Tool | Picture quality |
|---|---|
| CapCut | 3 of 5 |
| Dreamina | 4 of 5 |
| Hailuo (MiniMax) | 5 of 5 |
| invideo AI | 3 of 5 |
| Kling AI | 5 of 5 |
| LTX Studio | 4 of 5 |
| Luma Dream Machine | 5 of 5 |
| Morph Studio | 4 of 5 |
| Pika | 3 of 5 |
| PixVerse | 4 of 5 |
| Runway | 5 of 5 |
| SceneMixer | 4 of 5 |
| Sora (OpenAI) | 5 of 5 |
| Veo / Flow (Google) | 5 of 5 |
| Vidu | 4 of 5 |
| Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang) | 4 of 5 |
Inclusion rule. Tools rated on this rubric: a public English product page addressing at least four of the seven criteria. An unrated cell means nothing usable is published. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.
| Tool | Script handling |
|---|---|
| CapCut | 1 of 5 |
| Dreamina | 1 of 5 |
| Hailuo (MiniMax) | 1 of 5 |
| invideo AI | 3 of 5 |
| Kling AI | 1 of 5 |
| LTX Studio | 3 of 5 |
| Luma Dream Machine | 1 of 5 |
| Morph Studio | 2 of 5 |
| Pika | 1 of 5 |
| PixVerse | 1 of 5 |
| Runway | 1 of 5 |
| SceneMixer | 5 of 5 |
| Sora (OpenAI) | 1 of 5 |
| Veo / Flow (Google) | 1 of 5 |
| Vidu | 1 of 5 |
| Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang) | 1 of 5 |
Inclusion rule. Tools rated on this rubric: a public English product page addressing at least four of the seven criteria. An unrated cell means nothing usable is published. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.
| Tool | Cost transparency |
|---|---|
| CapCut | 4 of 5 |
| Dreamina | 3 of 5 |
| Hailuo (MiniMax) | 4 of 5 |
| invideo AI | 3 of 5 |
| Kling AI | 3 of 5 |
| LTX Studio | Not rated |
| Luma Dream Machine | 2 of 5 |
| Morph Studio | 4 of 5 |
| Pika | 4 of 5 |
| PixVerse | 3 of 5 |
| Runway | 2 of 5 |
| SceneMixer | 5 of 5 |
| Sora (OpenAI) | Not rated |
| Veo / Flow (Google) | 2 of 5 |
| Vidu | 3 of 5 |
| Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang) | 4 of 5 |
Inclusion rule. Tools rated on this rubric: a public English product page addressing at least four of the seven criteria. An unrated cell means nothing usable is published. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.
2The rating sits beside an announced ending
The vendor has published end dates for this line, which no other entry in the table has done. That does not change any of the seven numbers, and it changes what a production should do with them: a high picture rating on a product with a published end date is a short-term fact.
Ratings describe what is published today; dates are what make them perishable.
3Why cost transparency is blank
The consumer-facing product publishes no usable rate, so the cell is left unrated rather than scored low. The per-second figures on the ledger come from the developer price page for the same models, which answers a different question. Scoring the blank would put an undisclosed price and an expensive one in the same bucket, and those are different facts.
4Cells on this row with a page of their own
Values on this row held by at most two of the rated tools, each read against the column it sits in: Sora, unrated on cost. A value in the crowded middle of a column is left on the criterion page.
Ratings describe what Sora (OpenAI) publishes on its own pages, read 2026-09-12. They are not measurements of output quality, and the vendor is not consulted before a rating appears. The rule behind each criterion is on how scoring works; all sixteen tools together are on the ratings table. Next: Kling AI, PixVerse.