Wan
Alibaba's video model, number 1 on Artificial Analysis.
Free planOpen sourceSmaller version local
- Best for
- Cheap high quality clips
- On your PC
- Smaller version
- Works on
- Web, API, Windows, Linux
- License
- Apache-2.0 (Wan 2.2 only; Wan 3.0 is closed)
What’s good
- Top text-to-video score on Artificial Analysis
- Low monthly price for 1080p clips up to 30 seconds
- Older Wan 2.2 is free to run at home
Downsides
- The newest Wan 3.0 cannot be downloaded
- Credit cost per clip is not spelled out on the pricing page
At a glance.
- Best for
- Cheap high quality clips
- Price
- Free plan, then $10/mo
- For developers
- About $12 per minute of video (Artificial Analysis figure)
- Version
- Wan 3.0 (online), Wan 2.2 (open)Released 2026-08-19
- Works on
- Web, API, Windows, Linux
- Open source
- Yes, Apache-2.0 (Wan 2.2 only; Wan 3.0 is closed)
- Made by
- Alibaba
- Website
- create.wan.video
How it ranks.
- Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video (Wan 3.0)#1 · 11722026-11-05
- LMArena Text-to-Video (Wan 3.0)#8 · 14772026-11-05
- LMArena Text-to-Video (Wan 2.2 A14B, open)#44 · 11322026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Partly. A smaller version runs on your computer.
Use ComfyUI, Diffusers.
- You need
- Wan 2.2 5B: NVIDIA 24 GB card, 5 s 720p in under 9 minutes
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBToo small
- Mac, 32 GBToo small
- Mac, 64 GB+Too small
- PC, 8 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 12 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 16 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns