Sora

Released
2024-12-09
Last refreshed
2026-05-20
Status
Researched 179d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodal

Sora is a released general LLM work model; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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Specifications
Family
Sora
Released
2024-12-09
Architecture
Diffusion
Specialization
video-generation
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

About

Sora is OpenAI's text-to-video generation model capable of creating realistic and imaginative video up to 20 seconds. Available via API and on Azure AI Foundry.

Providers

No active provider routes are tracked for this model yet.

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
1,069text_to_video overall 2026-11-09Observed 2026-11-10
Configuration: Sora
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text to video leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-11-09 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a31507ef, latest split; dataset main tip ec013bce). Board entry 'Sora': rank 47 of 50, Arena Score 1069.3 (95% CI 1052.9-1085.6), 4,082 votes. Organization openai. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-10.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.