Kling AI vs Wan (Wan 2.1)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Kling AI
Chinese video generation from Kuaishou
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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 | 7.8 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Local self-hosting is fully free (Apache 2.0). wan.video offers limited hosted free generation. |
| Paid from | — | DashScope API ~$0.10-0.15 per 5-second 720p clip (usage-based per-second) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 16,000+ GitHub stars; 1M+ model downloads across HuggingFace and ModelScope |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 |
| Maker | — | Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab) |
| Verdict | 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... |
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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