HappyHorse-1.0 vs Hunyuan Video 混元视频 vs Kling vs Wan 通义万相
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
HappyHorse-1.0
Alibaba's unified 15B video model that debuted at #1 on the Artificial...
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Hunyuan Video 混元视频
Tencent's open-weights text-to-video model
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Kling
Kuaishou-spun AI video model, now an $18B independent rival to Sora.
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Wan 通义万相
Alibaba's text-to-video model
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free and open source — self-host at no cost | 66 credits per day for video generation | — |
| Paid from | Usage-based per-generation pricing via the fal API. | — | $8.80/month (Standard, monthly) — list $10, first month $6.99; 34% off yearly | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | 100M+ global registered users (60M reported Jan 2026 at CES) | — |
| Founded | — | — | — | 2024 |
| Maker | Alibaba (Taotian Group) | Tencent | Kuaishou Technology | Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab) |
| Verdict | What this is for: Generating short, high-quality videos with synchronized native audio and multilingual lip-sync from text, images, or reference clips. Who this is for: Creators, studios, and developers who want a top-r... |
Hunyuan Video is the reference open-weights video model: Tencent ships the actual weights, so teams can self-host, fine-tune, and build on it rather than renting a black-box endpoint. The December 2024 original (13B para... |
Kling, from Kuaishou, ranks among the strongest AI video generators available: Kling 3.0 (February 2026) added native 4K at 60fps, 15-second clips, and synced multilingual audio, with motion and physics that hold up bett... |
Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang) is Alibaba's open-source video generation family and one of the most capable open video models available, with the Wan 2.x series widely regarded as among the most cinematic open options thanks to i... |
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