Wan AI
Alibaba's Wan video models on a credit-based platform
About Wan AI
Wan AI is the hosted platform for Wan, the video generation model family developed by Alibaba's Tongyi Wanxiang team. It turns text prompts and still images into video, with the model weights themselves published openly and the platform here being the commercial front end that runs them for you.
That split is the thing to understand before signing up, because the submission that reached us described it simply as open source and free, and only half of that is right. The models are genuinely open: you can download them and run them on your own hardware if you have the hardware. wan.video is a paid service with a free tier, sitting in front of those models, and the convenience is what you are paying for. Both facts are true and they answer different questions.
The free tier is unusually generous in shape rather than size: alongside the monthly allowance there is a daily check-in that earns further credits, which rewards returning rather than buying.
You sign in and choose what you are making. Text-to-video starts from a written prompt. Image-to-video starts from a still you supply and animates it, which is the mode that gives you the most control over how the result looks.
You pick a style from the available set, with the free tier limited to a smaller selection than the paid plans reach.
Generation consumes credits. Your plan supplies a monthly allowance, and the daily check-in tops it up for people who use the service regularly without subscribing.
- •Text-to-video - a written prompt to a finished clip.
- •Image-to-video - animating a still you provide, which is the more controllable of the two routes.
- •Open model weights - the underlying Wan models are published, so self-hosting is a real alternative rather than a theoretical one.
- •Free tier with daily credits - a monthly allowance plus a check-in that earns more, rather than a trial that expires.
- •Style selection - a set of visual treatments, with more available on paid plans.
- •Backed by Alibaba - the Tongyi Wanxiang team, which is a different proposition from an independent wrapper.
Anyone wanting to try current video generation without paying, since the free tier continues rather than expiring. The daily check-in makes casual repeated use viable in a way most free tiers do not.
Developers evaluating Wan for self-hosting, who can test the model's output here before committing hardware to running it.
It is the wrong choice if you need the newest proprietary models, since this serves one family rather than aggregating many. And if your work cannot leave your own infrastructure, the open weights matter more to you than this platform does.
