Model profile

VideoCrafter AI video generator

A classic open research line for text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

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Decision Snapshot

Score: 57

Score source: Provisional quality proxy based on official/research evidence and catalogue presence; exact external rank requires live leaderboard/API collection.. Evidence confidence is medium.

Best For

  • Research Baselines
  • Open T2V
  • Open I2V

Supported Workflows

  • T2v
  • I2v
  • Open Weights

Access And Company

Built by Ailab Cvc. Public access is listed as Open Weights, Research Only.

Entry Points

Score Breakdown

Weighted evidence dimensions separate model quality from access, web authority, ecosystem, and source confidence.

DimensionScoreWeightEvidenceConfidence
Model Quality Proxy 57 24% Provisional quality proxy based on official/research evidence and catalogue presence; exact external rank requires live leaderboard/API collection. medium
Missing: live Artificial Analysis rank/Elo by modality, live Arena AI rank/score by modality
Capability Depth 67 16% Supported workflow tags: t2v, i2v, open_weights. Depth rewards T2V/I2V/V2V, references, native audio, editing, API, and open weights where present. medium
Missing: hands-on feature verification, mode-specific limits by duration/resolution
Access And Pricing 30 12% Access types: open_weights, research_only. Pricing note: Open/self-hosted; compute cost only unless using a hosted endpoint. low
Missing: current free tier, normalized price per video minute
Version Maturity 61 12% 3 version/history entries in the profile; latest public date is 2024-2025. high
Missing: automated release-note monitor, model ID/version mapping across providers
Ecosystem Popularity 100 10% GitHub snapshot includes 1 repo(s), 5,068 stars, 414 forks, 74 open issues, latest pushed 2026-01-09T15:01:22Z. high
Missing: Hugging Face downloads/likes, Replicate/fal usage/runs
Web Authority 28 10% SEO snapshot found product domain github.com and company domain unknown; sampled sitemap URL count is unknown.

No public source link is attached yet.

 medium
Missing: Similarweb/API traffic, Tranco rank
Company Distribution 30 10% Company profile is missing; distribution score is provisional. low
Missing: app store ratings/review volume, product MAU/traffic
Source Confidence 90 6% Profile source confidence is confirmed with 1 official URL(s), 1 feature evidence item(s), SEO present, GitHub present. high
Missing: paid/API evidence refresh, manual output review artifacts

What It Is

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VideoCrafter is an influential open video generation project used widely in research comparisons before newer frontier systems. It supports text-to-video and image-to-video workflows through multiple generations.

It belongs in the benchmark archive and open-model section rather than the consumer top-tools list.

Key Features

  • Classic open video generationVideoCrafter provides open video generation code and checkpoints across multiple versions.Source
  • Primary source-backed profileVideoCrafter has an official source, repository, paper, or model card attached for verification.Source
  • Open/self-hosted access pathVideoCrafter can be evaluated through open code, weights, or model-card resources when license terms allow.Source

Version Progress

  • 2023 / partial / partialVideoCrafter1Early controllable video generation baseline.

Latest News

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Limitations And Pricing

Open/self-hosted; compute cost only unless using a hosted endpoint.

  • Older Research Baseline.
  • May Require Technical Setup.

Sources