Wan 3.0
Released Aug 24, 2026
Alibaba's closed, API-only Wan video model: up to 30-second clips at up to 1080p with audio, from text, images, audio, video and documents or web pages.
- Price per second
- $0.20
- Max clip length
- 30 s
- Max resolution
- 1080p
- Native audio
- Yes
- AA arena Elo
- 1174
- LMArena Elo
- 1476
- Capabilities
- text to video, image to video, video editing, extension
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- 30-second single-pass generation (2-30 s; Wan 2.7 topped out at 15 s)
- Omni-reference input: images, video, audio, plus documents (PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT) and web pages
- Editing and extension of existing videos via reference_video
- Audio on by default, can be switched off
Weaknesses
- API-only, no open weights
- 1080p maximum
- Model Studio API reference still marks it as preview
releaseDate is general availability (2026-08-24, per Alibaba Cloud's GA blog post). A public beta came earlier in August: Alibaba Cloud's 2026-08-13 blog already describes it, and press reports put the beta at 2026-08-06, but no primary page gives that date. A faster 'wan3.0-video-prime' variant ($0.068/$0.14/$0.28 per second in Singapore) shares the entry. The pricing page labels the wan3.0-video rates 'Limited-time 30% off'. Alibaba's GA post calls $0.05/$0.10/$0.20 the standard rates 'before any promotional discount'. Open weights: Alibaba's pages say nothing, and Wan-AI on Hugging Face has no Wan 3.0 repo (latest are Wan2.2 variants), so openWeights false.
Links
API model strings
- alibaba-model-studio
wan3.0-video - alibaba-model-studio
wan3.0-video-prime