Wan (Wan 2.1) vs Hunyuan Video 混元视频
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Wan (Wan 2.1)
Alibaba's open-source video AI that beat Sora on VBench — run it local...
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Hunyuan Video 混元视频
Tencent's open-weights text-to-video model
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.4 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| 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 | 2025 | 2024 |
| Maker | Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab) | Tencent |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
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