Model · Video

HunyuanVideo

A free, downloadable video model from Tencent with about 13 billion parameters. It turns a description into a short clip. It needs a very large graphics card (45-60 GB), and its licence does not cover the EU, UK or South Korea.

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At a glance

Open or closed
Downloadable, with conditions
You can download and run it, but the licence limits use
Weights and code downloadable under Tencent's own community licence, not an open-source licence.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Licence
Tencent Hunyuan Community License Agreement (Community licence with conditions (e.g. revenue cap))
Products over 100 million monthly active users need a separate licence. Outputs may not be used to improve other AI models.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Can I sell what I make?
Yes, with conditions
  • Not allowed in some countries
  • Only below a revenue limit
No general commercial ban; 'Tencent claims no rights in Outputs'. Not licensed in the EU, UK or South Korea. 'revenue_cap' stands in for the 100M monthly-user cap (no exact vocab item).
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Cost
Free option: Free to download and run yourself
Plans below.
How you use it
On your own computer, Through another service
Tested on Linux with an NVIDIA CUDA GPU. Weights on Hugging Face; built into Diffusers and supported natively in ComfyUI.
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Skill needed
Technical
Our judgement: Python install, command line and a data-centre-class GPU.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
Made by
Tencent (Hunyuan team)
Licensor is THL A29 Limited. Country left out: the licence only gives Hong Kong governing law, no address.
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Status
Available
Repo still up; no deprecation stated, but HunyuanVideo-1.5 is the newer release.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial

What you can make with it

text to video

Image-to-video is a separate release, HunyuanVideo-I2V.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page

Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page

Related

Where you can run it

Hugging Face, ComfyUI

Other options for “A video, from a description”

Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Premiere, Akool, Animoto, Arcads, Canva AI (Magic Studio), CapCut, Civitai, CogVideoX, ComfyUI, Creatify, DeeVid AI, DomoAI, Dreamina, Dzine, fal, Filmora, FlexClip, Fliki, Fotor, Genmo, getimg.ai, Google Flow

About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.