Cheapest at your usage
$2.50/mo
Replicate · Pay as you go
For 10 videos a month, 5 s each
Channels that sell it
10
Subscriptions: 5 · APIs: 5
Official specs
1080p · 2–30 seconds
Generates its own audio
Last confirmed
Sep 18, 2026
Next review Oct 18, 2026
Alibaba's video model (its official site, wan.video, says it is powered by Alibaba Cloud). Pika's official pricing page lists it at 33 credits per 5-second clip at 720p, about a quarter of Seedance 2.5's rate in the same table.
Cheapest place to buy it at your volume
50 seconds of generation a month: 10 videos × 5 seconds each × 1 (average attempts per video). At least 720p, no audio needed. Change usage ↗
| Where to buy | Setting | How to buy | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate API | 720p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go $0.05 per second | $2.50 |
| Alibaba Cloud Bailian API | 720p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go ¥0.60 per second | ¥30 |
| Runway API API | 720p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go $0.10 per second | $5 |
| fal API | 720p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go $0.10 per second | $5 |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API | 720p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go $0.10 per second | $5 |
| Pika Subscription | 720p Not specified · Per 5s clip | Starter plan uses 37% of the plan's credits | $10 |
| Higgsfield Subscription | 720p Not specified · Per 5s clip | Starter plan uses 44% of the plan's credits | $15 |
Does the cheapest way to pay change with volume?
One line per channel: an API is a straight line; a subscription is the cheapest plan that covers the month, so it climbs in steps and stops past the largest plan (extra credit packs are not counted).
At 10 videos a month, each channel costs:
- Replicate · API$2.50/moCheapest
- Alibaba Cloud Bailian · API$4.50/mo
- Runway API$5/mo
- fal · API$5/mo
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · API$5/mo
- 1–50 videos a month: Replicate · API is cheapest
Runway API and fal · API cost the same, so their lines overlap. Runway API and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · API cost the same, so their lines overlap. 2 more expensive channel(s) not drawn.
Official specs
| Clip length | 2–30 seconds |
|---|---|
| What it can do | Text to video, Image to video, First/last frame, Reference to video |
| Highest resolution | 1080p |
| Audio | Generates its own audio |
The official model table states: 480P, 720P or 1080P, 2 to 30 seconds at 30 fps, with audio that can be switched off, all-in-one references (image, video, audio), automatic length and adaptive aspect ratio. The faster wan3.0-video-prime has the same specs and is not listed separately here.
From Alibaba's own page, confirmed on Sep 20, 2026. This is what the model can do; whether a given channel sells it, and at which settings, is in the prices below. Official spec page
Third-party blind-vote ranking
| Name on the leaderboard | Category | Rank | Elo score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wan 3.0 | With audio | #2 | 1229 |
| Wan 3.0 | No audio | #1 | 1335 |
The text-to-video board of the Artificial Analysis Video Arena: people watch two clips, pick the better one without knowing which model made it, and the votes give an Elo score. The rank is the model's place in the board's default view (current models), and names are written as the board writes them; checked Sep 26, 2026. Scores move every week and are a guide to quality only. See the leaderboard ↗
Where it is available
| Tool | Type | Lowest monthly price | Price status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pika | Creative shorts and effects | $10 | Price verified |
| Krea | Multi-model platform | $9 | Manually recorded price |
| Higgsfield | Multi-model platform | $15 | Manually recorded price |
| Magnific | Multi-model platform | $20 | Price verified |
"Lowest monthly price" is the cheapest confirmed monthly plan for that tool. It does not mean that plan includes this model — premium models are often limited to pricier plans. Each tool's official pricing page is the authority.
Pay-as-you-go API prices
| API provider | API model name | Resolution | Audio | Official price | Per second | Minimum per generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate | alibaba/wan-3 | 480p | Not specified | $0.025/s | $0.025 | — |
| Alibaba Cloud Bailian | wan3.0-video | 480p | Not specified | ¥0.30/s | $0.045 | — |
| Runway API | wan3 | 480p | Not specified | 5 credits/s | $0.050 | — |
| fal | alibaba/wan-3.0/text-to-video | 480p | Not specified | $0.05/s | $0.050 | — |
| Replicate | alibaba/wan-3 | 720p | Not specified | $0.05/s | $0.050 | — |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | wan3.0-video | 480p | Not specified | $0.05/s | $0.050 | — |
| Alibaba Cloud Bailian | wan3.0-video | 720p | Not specified | ¥0.60/s | $0.090 | — |
| Runway API | wan3 | 720p | Not specified | 10 credits/s | $0.100 | — |
| fal | alibaba/wan-3.0/text-to-video | 720p | Not specified | $0.10/s | $0.100 | — |
| Replicate | alibaba/wan-3 | 1080p | Not specified | $0.10/s | $0.100 | — |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | wan3.0-video | 720p | Not specified | $0.10/s | $0.100 | — |
| Alibaba Cloud Bailian | wan3.0-video | 1080p | Not specified | ¥1.20/s | $0.180 | — |
| Runway API | wan3 | 1080p | Not specified | 20 credits/s | $0.200 | — |
| fal | alibaba/wan-3.0/text-to-video | 1080p | Not specified | $0.20/s | $0.200 | — |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | wan3.0-video | 1080p | Not specified | $0.20/s | $0.200 | — |
Prices as each provider's official pricing page states them, confirmed Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026. No subscription: you pay for the seconds generated. Prices exclude tax.
Mainland China subscriptions (yuan)
| Subscription | Resolution | Audio | Per second | Lowest monthly price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimeng CN | 720p | Not specified | 14 Credits/s | ¥69 |
| Jimeng CN | 1080p | Not specified | 33 Credits/s | ¥69 |
Copied from the official subscription pages, confirmed on Sep 19, 2026. Each month's credits last until used up, and bigger plans cost less per second; the calculator works out which plan covers your usage.
How much Wan 3.0 video the credits buy
On Pika
| Resolution | Audio | Billing | Credits per second | Starter 900 credits | Creator 3,150 credits | Fancy 8,550 credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | Not specified | Per 5s clip 33 credits | 6.6 | 136 s ≈27 clips of 5s | 477 s ≈95 clips of 5s | 1295 s ≈259 clips of 5s |
Rates come from Pika's official pricing page; seconds are the plan's credits divided by the rate. That is the ceiling if you do nothing else — credits also go to images, voice, upscaling and more, so the real total is lower. Where a model has several rows, the vendor prices clip lengths separately — the per-second rates really differ; it is not a typo. Models without an exact official rate we could find are left out; we don't estimate for them.
On Higgsfield
| Resolution | Audio | Billing | Credits per second | Starter 200 credits | Plus 1,000 credits | Ultra 3,000 credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 480p | Not specified | Per 5s clip 5 credits | 1 | 200 s ≈40 clips of 5s | 1000 s ≈200 clips of 5s | 3000 s ≈600 clips of 5s |
| 720p | Not specified | Per 5s clip 8.75 credits | 1.75 | 114 s ≈22 clips of 5s | 571 s ≈114 clips of 5s | 1714 s ≈342 clips of 5s |
| 1080p | Not specified | Per 5s clip 17.5 credits | 3.5 | 57 s ≈11 clips of 5s | 286 s ≈57 clips of 5s | 857 s ≈171 clips of 5s |
Rates come from Higgsfield's official pricing page; seconds are the plan's credits divided by the rate. That is the ceiling if you do nothing else — credits also go to images, voice, upscaling and more, so the real total is lower. Where a model has several rows, the vendor prices clip lengths separately — the per-second rates really differ; it is not a typo. Models without an exact official rate we could find are left out; we don't estimate for them.
This model is included in plans on Krea, Magnific, but we found no exact official rate for it there, so no durations are listed — we don't estimate on a vendor's behalf.
How the status is checked
Whether a model still runs is checked separately from prices: prices change monthly, but a model can disappear between two price syncs, quietly making every page that mentions it wrong. So each model record has its own confirmation date and review deadline; overdue records are flagged, never assumed to still be running.
Last confirmed on Sep 18, 2026; due to be rechecked by Oct 18, 2026.
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