Hunyuan Video 混元视频 vs Wan 通义万相 vs Kling vs Hailuo Video 海螺视频
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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Wan 通义万相
Alibaba's 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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Hailuo Video 海螺视频
MiniMax's text-to-video generation
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | 66 credits per day for video generation | — |
| Paid from | — | — | Standard $10/mo; Pro $37/mo; Premier $92/mo; Ultra $180/mo (up from ~$128/mo in Aug 2025) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | 100M+ global registered users (60M reported Jan 2026 at CES) | — |
| Founded | — | 2024 | — | 2024 |
| Maker | Tencent | Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab) | Kuaishou Technology | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Hailuo Video, from China's MiniMax, is one of the stronger AI video generators, well regarded for natural camera motion and prompt adherence in short clips, and competitive with Kling and Runway on visual quality for the... |
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