{"name":"Wan","tagline":"Alibaba Tongyi Wanxiang video models — hosted on tongyi.aliyun.com/wan; older weights on GitHub.","url":"https://tongyi.aliyun.com/wan","category":"video","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"Tongyi web app + Alibaba Cloud DashScope; hosted video is regional pay-as-you-go (confirm in console — no stable public USD card fetched); Wan2.1 Apache weights are self-hostable","free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"api":true,"self_host":false,"verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"This is Wan the video stack, not Qwen-Image. The consumer surface is Tongyi Wanxiang; API is DashScope. GitHub Wan2.1 is the open-weights generation, not a promise that the latest hosted Wan is OSI. China-region console and moderation apply. No USD list price we could pin without the billing console.","limitations":["No durable public USD price table fetched; treat Alibaba console as source of truth.","Latest hosted Wan is not the same artifact as Apache Wan2.1 weights.","China-region account, payment, and content-moderation constraints.","Not Qwen-Image (that's the still-image card)."],"strengths":["Alibaba-hosted video generation through Tongyi Wanxiang.","Wan2.1 Apache weights are available for self-hosting.","API access via DashScope for programmatic use."],"use_for":["Video generation projects that can work within Alibaba Cloud's region.","Teams that want to self-host Wan2.1 open weights.","Users already inside the Tongyi ecosystem."],"skip_when":["You need a stable public USD price card without console access.","China-region account, payment or moderation constraints are blockers.","You expected the latest hosted Wan to match the open Wan2.1 weights."],"receipts":["https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.1","https://tongyi.aliyun.com/wan"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"last_verified":"2026-08-19","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"wan","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/wan/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}