Hailuo AI vs Pika
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-28
Hailuo AI and Pika land in a dead heat overall, each named in 14 of 62 answers and scoring 13 out of 100. ChatGPT favors Pika, 20 to 2, while Claude leans toward Hailuo AI, 29 to 13; both score 8 with Perplexity. Head-to-head, the two tie on 16 questions, with Hailuo AI named more often on 2 and Pika more often on 2. Both get swept into every answer on "What are the best free AI video generators?" and both are completely absent from questions about open-source models, blog-to-video tools, and talking-head scripts.
Head to head
| metric | Hailuo AI | Pika |
|---|---|---|
| score | 13 | 13 |
| questions won | 10 | 10 |
By assistant
Hailuo AI
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 2 | 5% of answers | #8.0 |
| Claude | 29 | 50% of answers | #5.9 |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 8 | 10% of answers | #3.0 |
Pika
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 20 | 25% of answers | #2.6 |
| Claude | 13 | 25% of answers | #7.0 |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 8 | 10% of answers | #3.0 |
Where they differ
Only Hailuo AI gets named for
- What's the best AI video tool with an API for developers?
Only Pika gets named for
- What's the best AI video generator in 2026?
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Scores count how often each assistant names a product, weighted by position. How the score works · Full AI video generators leaderboard