Is Topview T1 state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 21, 2026; no independent results yet.
Topview's video generation model, available on the Topview platform for text-to-video, image-to-video and multi-reference generation at 720p or 1080p, in clips up to 30 seconds. Priced at one 1080p per-second rate for every member. Topview has not published the model's size, architecture or weights.
The details so far
- Lab
- Topview
- Announced
- Oct 21, 2026
- API
- Not yet
- Open weights
- Unknown
- Modes
- Text to video, image to video, multi-reference
- Output
- 720p or 1080p; 4, 8, 12, 15 or 30 s clips; 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4 and 21:9
- Price
- 1080p at 2.2 credits per second for every member (list 2.75); 30 s at 1080p is $6.60 (about $0.22/s)
- Access
- Topview platform; Ultra Annual members get 30 days of unlimited T1 generation
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: 1080p quality that can stand with Seedance 2.5 at about 62% lower cost ($6.60 vs $17.55 for 30 s at 1080p, using Topview's own Seedance 2.5 rate).
Sources
LABTopview T1 pagetopview.ai/topview-t1 · Oct 21, 2026LABTopviewAI announcement on Xx.com/TopviewAIhq/status/2112912062007607635 · Oct 21, 2026Tracking ends Jan 19, 2027 unless the API or weights become available.