Tongyi Wanxiang 通义万相 vs Wan 通义万相

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 Visit Wan 通义万相 Alibaba's text-to-video model Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.8 / 10 7.4 / 10
Capability 7 8
Value for money 6 9
Ease of use 6 5
ASEAN readiness 6 6
API quality 7 7
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier
Paid from Open Apache 2.0 weights (Wan 2.1/2.2) are free to self-host
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users Hundreds of thousands of monthly downloads across HuggingFace/ModelScope variants
Founded 2024
Maker 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...

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...

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