Wan AI video generator
Alibaba's open and commercial video model family, with strong community adoption and variants for text, image, speech, and animation-driven video.
Decision Snapshot
Score: 87
Score source: Wan appears in Artificial Analysis and Arena snapshots, and the open repository/paper provide reproducible public evidence.. Evidence confidence is high.
Best For
Supported Workflows
Access And Company
Built by Alibaba Group. Public access is listed as Open Weights, Closed Api, 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 | 92 | 24% | Wan appears in Artificial Analysis and Arena snapshots, and the open repository/paper provide reproducible public evidence. | high |
| Capability Depth | 76 | 16% | Supported workflow tags: t2v, i2v, ti2v, speech_to_video, character_animation, 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_api, aggregator. Pricing note: Open weights can be self-hosted, while hosted APIs and apps charge separately. Hardware cost is a major practical pricing dimension for open deployment. | high |
| Version Maturity | 99 | 12% | 5 version/history entries in the profile; latest public date is 2026. | high |
| Ecosystem Popularity | 100 | 10% | GitHub snapshot includes 1 repo(s), 16,923 stars, 2,118 forks, 285 open issues, latest pushed 2026-03-17T10:48:41Z. | high |
| Web Authority | 59 | 10% | SEO snapshot found product domain wan.video and company domain home.alibabagroup.com; sampled sitemap URL count is 0. | medium |
| Company Distribution | 88 | 10% | Alibaba Group distribution profile: Wan and related Alibaba video models matter because they combine serious cloud/API distribution with open-weight releases, making Alibaba one of the most important vendors for both cr... | medium |
| Source Confidence | 100 | 6% | Profile source confidence is confirmed with 2 official URL(s), 4 feature evidence item(s), SEO present, GitHub present. | high |
What It Is
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Wan is Alibaba's large-scale video generative model family. It is important because it bridges commercial distribution with open weights, GitHub code, Hugging Face/ModelScope hosting, and developer workflows.
Wan2.2 is a major upgrade that introduced a Mixture-of-Experts approach for video diffusion and released inference code and model weights for text-to-video, image-to-video, and TI2V tasks. Later Wan2.2 variants expanded into speech-to-video and character animation.
For consumers and developers, Wan is less of a single app and more of an ecosystem. It should be evaluated for open deployment, ComfyUI/Diffusers support, model size, hardware requirements, community fine-tunes, and whether hosted services expose the latest versions.
Key Features
- Open model ecosystemWan2.2 provides public code, weights, model cards, and integration into community tooling.Source
- MoE video diffusionWan2.2 introduces a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to increase model capacity at similar compute cost.Source
- T2V/I2V/TI2V coverageThe repository supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and text-image-to-video workflows.Source
- Animation and speech variantsWan2.2 added Animate and S2V variants for character animation/replacement and audio-driven cinematic video.Source
Version Progress
- Wan 2.5 / 2.6 / 2.7Names appear in third-party catalogues and should not be treated as confirmed official releases yet.
- Wan2.2Released inference code and model weights. Supports T2V, I2V, and TI2V. Integrated with Diffusers and ComfyUI.
- Wan technical reportPublished the Wan open large-scale video generative model paper line.
Latest News
Model-specific news entries link directly to the original publisher; article bodies stay off-site.
- Wan2.2-Animate-14B has been integrated into Diffusers External source link for this model. Open original
- Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models Technical paper source for the model family. Open original
Limitations And Pricing
Open weights can be self-hosted, while hosted APIs and apps charge separately. Hardware cost is a major practical pricing dimension for open deployment.