HunyuanVideo AI video generator
Tencent's open-weight video generation family, important for developers, researchers, and self-hosted benchmarking.
Decision Snapshot
Score: 84
Score source: HunyuanVideo is tracked by public leaderboards and has strong open-weight repository evidence, but current frontier placement needs live collection.. Evidence confidence is high.
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Supported Workflows
Access And Company
Built by Tencent. Public access is listed as Open Weights, Closed Web, Aggregator.
Entry Points
Score Breakdown
Weighted evidence dimensions separate model quality from access, web authority, ecosystem, and source confidence.
| Dimension | Score | Weight | Evidence | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model Quality Proxy | 80 | 24% | HunyuanVideo is tracked by public leaderboards and has strong open-weight repository evidence, but current frontier placement needs live collection. | high |
| Capability Depth | 73 | 16% | Supported workflow tags: t2v, i2v, avatar_video, audio_driven_video, open_weights. Depth rewards T2V/I2V/V2V, references, native audio, editing, API, and open weights where present. | high |
| Access And Pricing | 88 | 12% | Access types: open_weights, closed_web, aggregator. Pricing note: Open weights are free to download under the applicable license, but self-hosting cost depends on GPU memory and inference stack. Hosted platforms may cha... | high |
| Version Maturity | 99 | 12% | 5 version/history entries in the profile; latest public date is 2025-12-05. | high |
| Ecosystem Popularity | 100 | 10% | GitHub snapshot includes 2 repo(s), 16,946 stars, 1,537 forks, 216 open issues, latest pushed 2026-06-29T09:33:50Z. | high |
| Web Authority | 59 | 10% | SEO snapshot found product domain aivideo.hunyuan.tencent.com and company domain tencent.com; sampled sitemap URL count is 0. | medium |
| Company Distribution | 88 | 10% | Tencent distribution profile: HunyuanVideo is important for users and developers because Tencent released a strong open-weight video model line while also having large consumer, gaming, cloud, and content ecosystems.. | medium |
| Source Confidence | 100 | 6% | Profile source confidence is confirmed with 3 official URL(s), 4 feature evidence item(s), SEO present, GitHub present. | high |
What It Is
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HunyuanVideo is Tencent's open video generation model family. Its original 13B release became a major open baseline, and HunyuanVideo-1.5 later focused on lighter deployment and broader access for developers and creators.
For a consumer selection site, HunyuanVideo matters as an open-weight alternative to closed products like Kling, Seedance, Veo, and Runway. It can be run locally or through community hosts, but the consumer experience depends heavily on the UI, GPU setup, and wrapper used.
The family is also expanding beyond text-to-video into image-to-video, avatar, audio-driven human animation, and speed-distilled variants. That makes it useful for benchmark design, even when regular users do not directly self-host it.
Key Features
- Open 13B baselineTencent released code and weights for a large open text-to-video model family.Source
- HunyuanVideo-1.5 lightweight focusThe 1.5 repository describes an 8.3B model designed to lower usage barriers.Source
- Distilled I2V speedupsThe 1.5 repository reports step-distilled I2V models that reduce generation time on RTX 4090-class hardware.Source
- Avatar ecosystemTencent maintains related HunyuanVideo avatar and I2V projects for human animation and reference workflows.Source
Version Progress
- HunyuanVideo-1.5Lightweight 8.3B video model line introduced. Supports text-to-video and image-to-video with lower usage barriers.
- HunyuanVideo 13BInference code and model weights released. Technical paper describes a large open-source video foundation model.
Latest News
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- Fp8 gemm inference is supported External source link for this model. Open original
- HunyuanVideo-1.5 release External source link for this model. Open original
- HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework For Large Video Generation Model Technical paper for the original open foundation model. Open original
Limitations And Pricing
Open weights are free to download under the applicable license, but self-hosting cost depends on GPU memory and inference stack. Hosted platforms may charge separately.