Open-weight video diffusion from Alibaba.
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Updated 2026-05-13
Local video diffusion vs Runway Gen-4
When does paying per credit beat owning a 4090?
For occasional polished shots, Runway is cheaper than buying a workstation GPU. For iteration-heavy work or non-public projects, local Wan/Hunyuan pays for itself in months.
13B open-weight cinematic text-to-video.
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Cinematic-quality cloud video generation.
Paid · from $15/mo
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Open-weight video diffusion from Alibaba. | 13B open-weight cinematic text-to-video. | Cinematic-quality cloud video generation. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Paid · from $15/mo |
| Free tier | Open weights with permissive license. Run free on your own GPU. | Open weights. Free to run on your own hardware. | Limited free trial credits. Sustained use requires a paid plan. |
| Best for | Best open-weight video quality right now | Cinematic motion | Best-in-class cloud video quality |
| Watch out for | 14B model is VRAM-hungry | Heavy VRAM | Expensive at scale |
| Platforms | linux, windows, docker | linux, windows, docker | web, api, ios |
| Min VRAM | 12 GB | 24 GB | — |
| Rec. VRAM | 48 GB | 48 GB | — |
| Compute | local | local | cloud-api |
| Power score | 92/100 | 90/100 | 78/100 |
| Verified badges | Actually FreeNo SignupOpen SourceWatermark-FreePlugin | Actually FreeNo SignupOpen SourceWatermark-FreePlugin | Watermark-FreeAPI |
| Visit Wan 2.2 | Visit HunyuanVideo | Visit Runway Gen-4 |