Hunyuan Video 混元视频 vs Kling AI vs Runway vs Wan (Wan 2.1)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Hunyuan Video 混元视频
Tencent's open-weights text-to-video model
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Kling AI
Chinese video generation from Kuaishou
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Runway
Professional AI video generation and editing tools used by Hollywood s...
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Wan (Wan 2.1)
Alibaba's open-source video AI that beat Sora on VBench — run it local...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | 125 one-time credits for video generation | Local self-hosting is fully free (Apache 2.0). wan.video offers limited hosted free generation. |
| Paid from | — | — | $15/month (Standard) | DashScope API ~$0.10-0.15 per 5-second 720p clip (usage-based per-second) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | ~4M registered users (≈1.2M monthly active, 2025-2026) | 16,000+ GitHub stars; 1M+ model downloads across HuggingFace and ModelScope |
| Founded | 2024 | 2024 | 2018 | 2025 |
| Maker | Tencent | — | Cristobal Valenzuela, Alejandro Matamala, Anastasis Germanidis | Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab) |
| Verdict | Hunyuan Video is Tencent's text-to-video model and one of the stronger open-weights options, notable because researchers and teams can self-host the weights rather than relying solely on a hosted endpoint. It produces co... |
Kling AI is Kuaishou's flagship AI video platform — the same model family as Kling — delivering some of the best motion realism and prompt-following in text- and image-to-video today. It is genuinely competitive with the... |
Runway is one of the most established AI video platforms, combining generative video (Gen models) with a real editing suite — inpainting, green-screen, motion tracking and frame interpolation. It is a strong choice for c... |
Wan 2.1 is arguably the most significant open-source video model released to date: it is the only freely downloadable model family that could genuinely challenge commercial incumbents at launch, topping VBench 86.22% vs... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.