Chinese AI Video Model Comparison

One table, five fast-moving Chinese video models

China's text-to-video and image-to-video models have moved from research demos to genuinely usable tools in a remarkably short window. Between 2024 and 2026, Seedance (即梦, ByteDance), Kling (可灵, Kuaishou), Hailuo (海螺, MiniMax), Vidu (Shengshu) and Wan (通义万相, Alibaba) became the names creators and product teams compare most often. The problem is that each lives on its own vendor page, with specs framed differently and pricing buried under credits, tiers and per-second rates. This tool collapses all of that into a single comparison table: one row per model, and columns for the things that actually decide a choice — the model, who makes it, the maximum clip duration, the advertised resolution, the standout strength, and how you get access along with a rough price note.

Reading the table is meant to be fast. Scan the duration and resolution columns first to rule models in or out for your shot, then read the strength column to see what each is genuinely good at — image-to-video and physical realism, longer multi-shot takes, value for money, native audio-video, or Chinese-language and e-commerce tuning. The access / pricing column tells you whether to expect a free trial, a watermarked free tier, a credit system or a subscription. None of these models is universally "best"; the right pick depends on whether you are animating a single still, cutting a longer narrative, or shipping product clips on a budget.

Read the columns as trade-offs, not a single winner

A word of caution belongs on every comparison like this: the numbers move. This is one of the fastest-iterating corners of AI, and a model that maxes out at ten seconds today may double that next quarter, while pricing schemes are reworked just as often. Everything in the table is a provisional estimate meant to orient you quickly, not a contract. Before you commit time or money, open the vendor's own page, confirm the current duration, resolution and price, and — crucially — run a short test with your own prompt or reference image. A spec sheet cannot tell you whether a model renders your particular style, motion or product convincingly; only a real generation can.

It is also worth being clear about what this tool is not. It does not generate video and it never calls any of these models — there is no API key, no upload, no queue, and no account to create. It is a same-origin, browser-only reference that reads a small data file we host ourselves and draws a table, so nothing you do here is sent to ByteDance, Kuaishou, MiniMax, Shengshu, Alibaba or anyone else. That makes it a safe, fast way to shortlist before you ever sign up anywhere. Treat it as the first step in a simple workflow: compare the options here, verify the details on the official page, then test the front-runner with your own footage. Used that way, a quick glance across these six columns can save you from opening five separate vendor sites — and from the more expensive mistake of committing to the wrong tool for the job before you have seen a single frame it produces.