Wan 万相 (formerly Tongyi Wanxiang 通义万相)
Alibaba's video and image generator, with open Wan 2.x weights and a hosted Wan 3.0
Overview
Wan (万相), formerly Tongyi Wanxiang, is Alibaba's AI image and video generation family. Wan 2.1 and 2.2 are open Apache 2.0 weights that run on consumer GPUs, while Wan 3.0, launched in August 2026, is hosted only and generates up to 30 seconds of video. It is sold through the create.wan.video web app and, separately, the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 1 video and 1 image at a time
- 6 image styles
- Daily check-in credits
- 300 credits a month
- Watermark-free downloads
- 1080p and 10-30 s videos
- 3 videos at a time
- 1,200 credits a month
- Watermark-free downloads
- 1080p and 10-30 s videos
- 8 videos at a time
- 480P, 720P or 1080P
- Limited-time 30% discount at the time of reading
- Free quota in Singapore only
- 50 free images in Singapore
What you can produce with Wan 万相 (formerly Tongyi Wanxiang 通义万相)
- Video clips of up to 30 seconds from text, first and last frames, or reference images (Wan 3.0)
- Videos built from a document, spreadsheet or slide deck used as the brief
- Self-hosted text- and image-to-video on a consumer GPU with the open Wan 2.1 and 2.2 weights
- Character animation and dance videos from the open Wan-Animate-2 and Wan-Dancer models
- Text-to-image and image editing with Wan 2.7 through the web app or API
- Per-second API generation inside an Alibaba Cloud deployment
Wan is two products under one name. The open Wan 2.1 and 2.2 weights are among the most capable video models you can run on your own GPU, under a permissive Apache 2.0 licence. Wan 3.0 is hosted only, but stretches a single generation to 30 seconds and accepts documents and reference images as input.
Pricing is reasonable either way: US$5 a month billed yearly for the web app's Pro plan, or per-second API billing in Alibaba Cloud's Singapore region with a free starter quota. Teams that need the newest model locally will have to wait, since Alibaba has not opened weights for anything after Wan 2.2.
What we found
Wan (万相) is Alibaba's image and video generation family, formerly marketed as Tongyi Wanxiang (通义万相). Alibaba Cloud first showed it at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2023 as an invitation-only text-to-image model. It has since become mainly a video product, and the old tongyi.aliyun.com/wanxiang address now redirects to a page simply titled 万相.
Its reputation outside China rests on open weights. Wan 2.1 in February 2025 and Wan 2.2 in July 2025 were released under Apache 2.0, and the smallest Wan 2.1 text-to-video model needs 8.19 GB of video memory, according to its own repository, so it runs on consumer graphics cards. Every general model since, from Wan 2.5 to the current Wan 3.0, has been hosted only. Alibaba has kept publishing narrower open models: Wan-Dancer in July 2026 and Wan-Animate-2, a character-animation model, on 7 August 2026, both Apache 2.0.
Wan 3.0 went live on 24 August 2026 after a public beta from 6 August, according to a woshipm review. Alibaba Cloud's API reference says it generates up to 30 seconds of video at 30 frames per second from text, first and last frames, or reference material; earlier versions of this page said clips stopped at about 15 seconds.
There are two ways to pay. The create.wan.video web app has a free plan with daily check-in credits, then Pro at US$5 a month billed yearly ($10 monthly) for 300 credits and 1080p, watermark-free downloads, and Premium at US$20 a month yearly for 1,200 credits. The API is billed separately through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: in Singapore, wan3.0-video lists at US$0.05 to US$0.20 per second by resolution, and Wan 2.7 images at US$0.03 each. New Model Studio users get a free quota in the Singapore region only, the reverse of what this page used to say. The web plan and the API are bought separately, so a creator subscription does not cover programmatic use.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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