What AI tools make the best AI films? We counted

Among the films glu.tv has picked, Seedance is the most-credited AI video tool, ahead of Veo, Higgsfield and Kling. This counts what creators say they used and does not rank quality. As at 3 November 2026.

Published and checked 3 November 2026. Every number here is a count over the glu.tv catalogue on that date. The tool pages carry the live counts, so they will drift from this snapshot.

The catalogue at a glance

Counted from creator-published credits on glu.tv films as at 3 November 2026; tools without a glu.tv tool page are grouped as Other.

The most-credited video tools

Rankings of AI video generators are mostly written by people with something to sell. This one counts instead. The first table shows how many films credit no tool and how many credit a video-generation tool. The table below lists those video tools, with versions rolled up into one family so Seedance 2 and Seedance 2.5 count together. A film that credits two versions of one family counts once.

Counted from creator-published credits on glu.tv films as at 3 November 2026; tools without a glu.tv tool page are grouped as Other.

Shares are of all films in the catalogue, not just the credited ones. Video tools without a glu.tv tool page are grouped in one row, Other video tools; the full tools index lists every tool that has a page. Sora was discontinued by OpenAI in April 2026, and its tool page says so.

Versions matter inside the families. The table splits Seedance and Veo by the version creators named. Each version has its own page under /tools/.

The stacks: which tools are credited together

A finished AI film is rarely one tool. Many films that credit any tool credit two or more, and some name two or more video tools. These are the pairs credited together most often.

One pair is a platform and a model: Higgsfield and Seedance are credited together often. Higgsfield's tool page describes it as a creative suite that runs models from several providers, so its count and Seedance's overlap by design. Among video tools only, Kling is credited with Veo and with Seedance equally often. The other common pairs add image, music and voice tools: Nano Banana and Midjourney for stills, Suno for music, ElevenLabs for voice.

By genre: the top video tool in each

Here is the video tool credited most often within each genre tag, counting only films that credit a video tool. Films can carry more than one genre tag, so rows overlap. Ties are shown as ties.

ASMR and POV are left out because only a couple of films in each name a video tool. Where a genre has few credited films, treat the leader as a hint, not a result. Genre pages list every film, and the best of, by genre page picks the strongest in each.

Over time

The catalogue grows fast at the recent end, so quarters are not equal samples. September 2026 alone holds more films than any whole quarter before it, so the recent rows carry far more weight than the old ones. Quarters below use each film's YouTube publish date.

Read the early rows as anecdotes. Runway leads the films published up to 2024, and Veo leads 2025 Q2 and 2025 Q3. Sora leads 2025 Q4 on its own, and Kling leads 2026 Q1. Seedance leads every quarter from 2026 Q2. Month by month, it leads August 2026, but in September 2026 Higgsfield leads. You can browse the AI films by month to see the films behind each number.

How many films credit no tool

Many films in the catalogue credit no tool at all (see the first table). That is the largest group, larger than any tool's count. It does not mean the films used no AI tool, only that the creator did not publish one. A further group of films credit tools but no video tool, usually an image tool, a music tool or a voice tool. Every share above would move if more creators named their tools, which is one reason to read these as shares of what is credited, not of what is used.

Method

A credit means the creator published it: in the video description, a pinned comment or on their channel. glu.tv records the tool as the creator names it and does not guess from the footage. Tool names roll up into a family where a tool page treats them as one product line (Veo, Sora, Seedance and Kling), the same roll-up the tool pages use, so these counts match them. The film pool is the catalogue as at 3 November 2026, chosen by hand, which means it reflects our taste and our sourcing as well as the market. It is not every AI film, and it is not every tool. Nothing here is a claim about how good, fast or cheap any tool is.

If you want the live version of any number, open the tool's page. If you want to see the films behind it, start with the tools index or how to find out what tool made a video. To find where these films play, see where to watch AI films. And if you are a creator who wants a film to carry a credit, the submit page is where it starts.

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