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Wan

Alibaba

Wan is a video generation model line from Alibaba. The latest release is Wan 2.7 (3 Apr 2026). This page tracks all 5 Wan releases since 10 Jan 2025, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →

Wan 2.7

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Thinking Mode plans composition before render; first+last frame control; 9-grid multi-image synthesis; R2V for reference-consistent generation; native audio; T2V, I2V, R2V, and video editing in one model family

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app
Parameters
27B
Resolution
1080p
Architecture
Mixture-of-Experts DiT with Flow Matching
Max duration
15s

Released via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and Wan site. A companion Wan2.7-Image model also launched the same week. Versions between 2.1 and 2.7 (including 2.6) exist but are not separately seeded here.

Wan 2.6

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Up to 15s, multi-shot, audio sync, reference-to-video

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app
Max duration
15s

Date approximate - from a secondary tracker; no Alibaba primary page found.

Wan 2.5

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Closed, API-only (the open-weights line ended at 2.2); audio sync

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app

Date approximate - Wan 2.5-Preview appeared around 2025-09-26 per secondary sources; some trackers list 2025-11-15. No Alibaba primary page confirmed.

Wan 2.2

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

MoE architecture; 5B hybrid TI2V variant runs on a single consumer GPU; last open-weights Wan generation

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Self-host, Community API
Architecture
Mixture-of-Experts

Wan 2.1

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

Open-source T2V from Alibaba; 1.3B and 14B parameter variants; top open-source quality on release

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Self-host, Community API
Resolution
720p

Date approximate

See Wan in context on the video model timeline, or browse all model families.