Luma AI · video model · Released Feb 20, 2025Ray2
Ray2 is a video model from Luma AI, released Feb 20, 2025. It handles text to video and image to video.
- Arena score
- 1,108#46 of 48 · image to video
- Starting price
- —Not published
- Longest clip
- —Not published
- Resolution
- —No audio track
How it rates and what it costs
- Text to video arena
- 1,065 ±17#46 of 48 · 5,250 votes
- Image to video arena
- 1,108 ±16#46 of 48 · 9,521 votes
Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Sep 22, 2026.
The details
- Lab
- Luma AI
- Type
- Video model
- Released
- Feb 20, 2025
- Inputs
- Text prompts, Reference images
- Output
- Video
- Can do
- Text to video, Image to video
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Availability
- 1 API host
About Ray2
How good is Ray2?
In blind side-by-side votes, Ray2 scores 1,065 for text to video (#46 of 48) and 1,108 for image to video (#46 of 48). Higher is better; scores within about 34 points of each other are effectively tied.
Who makes Ray2?
Ray2 is a video model from Luma AI, released Feb 20, 2025.
What can Ray2 do?
Ray2 accepts text prompts and reference images and produces video. In practice: text to video and image to video.
Is Ray2 open source?
No. Ray2 is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner apps.
Where can I use Ray2?
It is listed by 1 API host we track.
What are the alternatives to Ray2?
The closest video models from other labs, by release date, are Veo 2 (Google, Dec 2, 2024), Seedance v1.0 Pro (ByteDance Seed, Jun 11, 2025), Runway Gen-4 Turbo (Runway, May 9, 2025) and Wan 2.2 A14B (Alibaba (Qwen), Jul 28, 2025).