The short answer
SoraStats keeps an independent archive of public Sora videos. Start with Best Sora Videos, then switch rankings depending on what you mean by "best":
- Most Viewed: the clips that reached the most people.
- Most Liked: the clips viewers approved of most.
- Most Remixed: the clips other creators built on.
What the archive contains
These figures come from a count of the archive database on November 14, 2026:
- **137,039** public Sora videos with their caption, creator, posting date, and the views, likes and remixes recorded in our last snapshot.
- Posting dates from **September 23, 2025** to **April 6, 2026**. The Sora app closed on April 26, 2026.
- **87,136** of those videos have an archived video file. The rest survive as a record (caption, creator, counts) without playback.
- **32,564** videos passed 1,000 views, and **1,828** passed 100,000.
The busiest month in the archive is October 2025, the first full month after OpenAI launched the Sora app on September 30, 2025, with 33,454 videos. Monthly volume then settled around 18,000 to 26,000 until March 2026, when it fell to 11,906 as the shutdown approached.
Why the three rankings disagree
Views, likes and remixes measure different things. In the archive, 65 of the 100 most viewed videos are also among the 100 most liked, but only 23 are among the 100 most remixed, and just 20 make all three lists.
Views reward reach: a clip that the Sora feed showed widely can rank high even if few people engaged with it. Likes reward approval, and they favor creators whose followers were active. Remixes are the rarest signal: across the archive, videos recorded about 4.3 million remixes against roughly 985 million views. A high remix count means other creators reused the idea, which is the closest the data gets to measuring influence.
If you are studying what worked on Sora, compare clips within the same ranking and the same period. The average video posted in October 2025 recorded about 10,300 views and the average March 2026 video about 3,300, while the median stayed between roughly 280 and 500 views in every month from October 2025 to March 2026. The very large hits came early.
What the numbers cannot tell you
The counts are the last values we recorded, not live numbers, because Sora no longer exists to update them. They are also only public signals: none of them proves that one video is better made than another.
A video can also be in the archive without an archived file, as described above. If a clip does not play, open the creator's profile; their other videos may still be available.
Related
- Where to watch Sora videos after the shutdown
- Sora creator history archive
- OpenAI Sora shutdown timeline
SoraStats is independent and not affiliated with OpenAI.