Hailuo AI 海螺视频 vs Wan 通义万相

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Hailuo AI 海螺视频 MiniMax's AI video app, now on the H3 model with Veo and Sora access Visit Wan 通义万相 Alibaba's video models: open Wan 2.x weights and the closed Wan 3.0 Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7 / 10 7.4 / 10
Capability 8 8
Value for money 7 9
Ease of use 6 5
ASEAN readiness 5 6
API quality 5 7
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier One-time free trial credits for new users, Hailuo models only; paid plans remove watermarks Free plan with daily check-in credits, 1 video and 1 image job at a time; open Wan 2.1/2.2 weights are free to self-host under Apache 2.0
Paid from Standard $10.50/mo billed monthly (list $14.99) or $8.40/mo billed yearly Pro $5/mo billed yearly; API from $0.05/sec (wan3.0-video, 480P)
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✓
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users — —
Founded 2024 2023
Maker MiniMax (MiniMax Group Inc., HKEX: 0100) Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab)
Verdict

Hailuo has become a capable, good-value AI video app, with MiniMax's new H3 model producing longer, higher-resolution clips with sound and paid plans bundling rival models such as Veo and Sora. Public reviews are dominat...

Wan remains the most useful open video model family for anyone willing to run it locally, and its Chinese-prompt handling is a genuine strength. The picture has split, though: the best model, Wan 3.0, is available only t...

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