Best story fidelity at the lowest cost — if the watermark is acceptable on your channel.
The clean export for commercial work — best faces, zero garbled text. Just budget for the queue.
Fast and competent — but text-to-video can't do vertical. Enter via image-to-video instead.
Scores are weighted over the three of six protocol dimensions with logged evidence — output quality, cost, speed (70% of protocol weight, renormalized), so this ranking is provisional. Languages, rights/terms and editing control are not scored yet: we publish no score without a test log behind it. One flip to watch: if Kling's Standard tier turns out to have no watermark-removal path, the commercial ranking changes — Veo's clean export is worth more than Kling's price gap for client work.