Wan

What is Wan?

Wan is Alibaba's family of open-weight video generation models covering text-to-video, image-to-video, and editing, released under a permissive licence. It runs on consumer GPUs in smaller sizes and matches closed models on many benchmarks in its larger ones, and is hosted by most inference providers.

Key features

• Text-to-video and image-to-video
• Open weights runnable on a single consumer GPU for smaller sizes
• Video editing and extension variants
• Hosted on Replicate, fal, and Alibaba Cloud
• ComfyUI support

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• Wan vs HunyuanVideo — The Open-Weight AI Video Models ComparedTool Guides · 7 min read

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• Wan vs Hunyuan VideoWan (Alibaba) and HunyuanVideo (Tencent) are the two open-weight video models that compete with closed products like Sora 2 and Kling. Both can be downloaded and run on your own hardware or through hosted providers. Wan ships in more sizes, including ones that run on consumer GPUs; Hunyuan targets the high end with larger models.
• Wan vs LTX-2.5LTX-2.5 and the open-weight Wan family are the two routes to running video generation yourself. LTX-2.5 ships downloadable weights with synchronised audio, multishot, and 4K HDR, wrapped in LTX Studio. Wan 2.x has the larger community, more sizes including ones that run on consumer GPUs, and the most ComfyUI workflows.