Tongyi Wanxiang 通义万相 vs Qwen-Image vs Wan 通义万相 vs Hunyuan Image 混元生图
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Tongyi Wanxiang 通义万相
Alibaba's open-weight image/video generator — now on Wan 2.7
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Qwen-Image
Alibaba's open-source 20B MMDiT image foundation model under Apache 2....
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Wan 通义万相
Alibaba's text-to-video model
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Hunyuan Image 混元生图
Tencent's image-generation model — open-weights
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | Open weights (Apache 2.0) — free to download and self-host from Hugging Face / ModelScope. | — | — |
| Paid from | Open Apache 2.0 weights (Wan 2.1/2.2) are free to self-host | Usage-based via Alibaba Cloud (DashScope) and third-party hosted APIs. | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Hundreds of thousands of monthly downloads across HuggingFace/ModelScope variants | — | — | — |
| Founded | — | — | 2024 | 2024 |
| Maker | — | Alibaba | Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab) | — |
| Verdict | Tongyi Wanxiang has grown well past a text-to-image tool: Wan 2.1 topped VBench, the open-weight Wan 2.1/2.2 releases (Apache 2.0) are genuinely popular in the open-source community, and April 2026's Wan 2.7 adds a "Thin... |
What this is for: Open-source text-to-image generation and editing with standout multilingual text rendering, strong for posters and Chinese/English typography. Who this is for: Developers, researchers, and studios want... |
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... |
Hunyuan Image is Tencent's text-to-image model, competitive on photorealism and especially strong at Chinese-language prompts and culturally specific content. It suits developers and creators operating inside the China/T... |
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