Wan 通义万相

Alibaba's video models: open Wan 2.x weights and the closed Wan 3.0

Video & Audio Freemium Has API Open Source
Researched · Published · Reviewed
RECATOOLS Score
7.4 / 10
Capability
8
Value for money
9
Ease of use
5
ASEAN readiness
6
API quality
7
Founded
2023
HQ
Hangzhou, China
Launched
February 25, 2025 (open-source weights release)
Developer
Alibaba Group (Alibaba Cloud / Tongyi Lab)

Overview

Wan (通义万相, Tongyi Wanxiang) is Alibaba's image and video generation family: Apache-2.0 open weights for Wan 2.1/2.2 that run locally in ComfyUI, and the closed Wan 3.0 flagship (Aug 2026) with clips up to 30 seconds at 1080p. Available on wan.video, the Wan app and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.

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通义万相是阿里巴巴旗下的图像与视频生成模型系列:Wan 2.1/2.2 以 Apache-2.0 协议开源,可在 ComfyUI 本地运行;2026 年 8 月正式上线的 Wan 3.0 旗舰版为闭源,单段视频最长 30 秒、最高 1080P。可通过 wan.video、万相 App 与阿里云百炼使用。

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 1 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete.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.

Free
$0
Daily check-in credits
  • 1 video and 1 image job at a time
  • 6 image styles
Premium
$20/mo
Billed yearly; $26 monthly
  • 1,200 credits/month, up to 240 videos
  • 8 video and 5 image jobs at a time
  • Same output features as Pro
API (Model Studio)
From $0.05/sec
wan3.0-video, Singapore region; separate from site plans
  • $0.05 / $0.10 / $0.20 per second at 480P / 720P / 1080P
  • wan3.0-video-prime up to $0.28 per second

Use cases

Text-to-video Image generation Marketing video Creator content

What you can produce with Wan 通义万相

  • Open-weight Wan 2.1 and 2.2 video models (Apache-2.0)
  • Wan 3.0 video generation up to 30 seconds at 1080p
  • Text, image, video and audio inputs
  • Local generation in ComfyUI
  • wan.video website and Wan mobile app
  • Wan API on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
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ASEAN Perspective

Wan 通义万相 in Southeast Asia

阿里同时开源 Wan 2.1 权重,与混元视频共同构成国产开源视频模型双极。

RECATOOLS Verdict

Wan remains the most useful open video model family for anyone willing to run it locally, and its Chinese-prompt handling is a genuine strength. The picture has split, though: the best model, Wan 3.0, is available only through Alibaba's website and API, so "open-source" now describes the older 2.x line rather than the flagship. Hosted plans are cheap, and Model Studio's Singapore region publishes clear per-second prices. Strong for ComfyUI users and ASEAN developers; casual creators wanting a polished editor may prefer packaged rivals.

Desk research by RECATOOLS from public sources, written with AI assistance — not a hands-on test. How we review

What we found

Wan, known in Chinese as Tongyi Wanxiang, is Alibaba's family of image and video generation models, built by its Tongyi Lab. It began as an image model in July 2023, and its video line became the leading open-weight option after Alibaba released Wan 2.1 in February 2025 and Wan 2.2 that July under the Apache 2.0 licence. Wan 2.2 uses a mixture-of-experts design in a 14-billion-parameter version, with a 5-billion-parameter model that fits consumer GPUs, and runs in ComfyUI with official workflows. Alibaba has since added open motion and character models, Wan-Dancer and Wan2.2-Animate-2, in July and August 2026.

The newest models are not open. Wan 3.0, generally available since 24 August 2026, makes clips of up to 30 seconds, twice Wan 2.7's limit, at up to 1080p, and accepts text, images, video, audio and reference documents such as PDFs and slides, with up to 20 reference assets. Its GitHub repository holds only a description and licence, and its weights are not on Hugging Face. Prompts in Chinese are a long-standing strength.

There are three ways to use it. The open 2.x weights are free to run on your own hardware. The wan.video website and the Wan mobile app have a free plan with daily check-in credits and one image and one video job at a time; Pro costs $5 a month billed yearly or $6.50 monthly for 300 credits, enough for up to 60 videos, with 1080p, watermark-free downloads and clips of 10 to 30 seconds; and Premium costs $20 a month billed yearly or $26 monthly for 1,200 credits. Those plans cover the website only. Developers pay separately through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, whose Singapore region lists Wan 3.0 at $0.05 a second at 480p up to $0.20 at 1080p, with a higher-quality Prime version up to $0.28.

Wan suits ComfyUI users wanting free local video generation and developers needing an API in Southeast Asia.

Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which permits unrestricted commercial use, fine-tuning, and redistribution with attribution. You only pay if you use Alibaba's hosted DashScope API or the wan.video consumer platform.
The 1.3B text-to-video model needs at least 8.19 GB of VRAM (e.g. RTX 3080/4070). The 14B model is recommended with 24 GB+ VRAM (RTX 3090/4090 or equivalent). Generation of a 5-second 480p clip on an RTX 4090 takes roughly 4 minutes without quantisation.
At its February 2025 launch, Wan 2.1's 14B model scored 86.22% on VBench, ahead of Sora (84.28%), Runway Gen-3 (82.32%), and HunyuanVideo (83.24%). By 2026, Kling 3.0 leads on character consistency and 1080p quality, and Sora 2 leads on photorealism. Wan 2.1's key differentiator remains free open weights and fine-tuning support.

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