Model · Video, Pictures

Wan 2.1

A free, downloadable video model from Alibaba's Wan team. It turns a description or a photo into a short clip and can edit video. The small version runs on a home graphics card; the large one needs much more.

Go to Wan 2.1’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Fully open
Weights and code downloadable under a standard open licence
Weights and code under Apache 2.0.
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Licence: Apache 2.0 (Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT))
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes
Apache 2.0 allows commercial use; card says 'We claim no rights over the your generate contents' but adds content restrictions (no illegal, harmful or misleading use).
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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
8.19 GB VRAM stated for T2V-1.3B only. Weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope; T2V/I2V in Diffusers, T2V/I2V/VACE in ComfyUI. Maker site wan.video. Platform 'linux' is our inference from the setup steps.
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Skill needed: Technical
Our judgement: Python install and command-line use.
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Made by: Alibaba (Wan team)
GitHub credits 'Team Wan' (Wan-Video org) and links Alibaba Cloud DashScope; no company address or country stated, so country left out.
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Status: Available
Still downloadable; repo does not call it superseded. Wan 2.2 exists as a separate catalogue entry.
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What you can make with it

A video, from a description (main use)
A video, by bringing a photo to life
A video, by editing a video I have
A picture, from a description

text to videoimage to videovideo to videotext to imagevideo to audio

Repo variants: text-to-video, image-to-video, first-last-frame-to-video (FLF2V) and VACE editing; card also lists text-to-image and video-to-audio.

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Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

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Where you can run it

Hugging Face

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.