Model · Alibaba Wan 2.5 · Via API · Independent

Wan 2.5 AI Video Generator

Wan 2.5 is Alibaba’s AI video model for 5- or 10-second clips from a prompt or a photo, at 720p or 1080p, in landscape, vertical or square. Run it here through the API from 9 credits per second, see what each resolution costs and gives up, and price it against Kling 3.0 and Hailuo 02 on identical settings. PictureToVideo is independent and not affiliated with Alibaba.

Released Sep 2025
5 or 10s
720p · 1080p
16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1
From 9 cr/s

Start frameDrop, click or paste · JPG / PNG / WebP

0/2500

Negative prompt

9 cr/s × 5s≈ $0.61Starter pack from $2.99

Wan 2.5 AI video generator illustration: a climber in an oxygen mask filming a selfie on a snowy summit ridge as the sun rises over a sea of clouds — Alibaba Wan ▸ Released Sep 2025 ▸ 5/10s ▸ 720p/1080p ▸ Silent ▸ Illustration

One clip Live here

Est. wait: 1m 15s
Credits: 45
Settings: Wan 2.5 · 5s · 720p · ≈ $0.61 on Pro
Status: Via API · independent · not affiliated with Alibaba

01Resolution vs cost

Wan 2.5 at 720p or 1080p?

Slide between the two tiers. Credits, frame size and a zoomed detail update together, so you can see what the cheaper tier gives up — then compare the same settings on Kling 3.0 and Hailuo 02.

Output resolution720p

Clip length

5 seconds10 seconds

Good for

Drafts and phone-first social

Prompt tests, plus feeds and stories watched on a phone. The usual sweet spot when nobody will crop the shot.

This clip: 45 cr; ≈ $0.61 on Pro
Frame: 1280×720; ≈ 0.9 MP, nominal 16:9
Versus 720p: 720p is Wan 2.5’s cheapest tier at 9 credits per second.; Bar width = pixels per frame

Wan 2.5 resolution sample illustration: an elderly man with a cane sitting by a village well among mud-brick houses at sunrise — Full frame · loupe area marked

Preparing loupe…720p · zoomed

Simulated detail · not a Wan render

Same settings · 720p · 5s · silent · image to video

Wan vs Kling 3.0 vs Hailuo 02

Wan 2.5this page
720p · 5s · 9 cr/s
45 cr ≈ $0.61
Kling 3.0
720p · 5s · 10 cr/s
50 cr ≈ $0.68
Hailuo 02
768p · 6s · 4 cr/s
24 cr ≈ $0.33 · no 720p tier — closest is 768p; renders 6s, not 5s, at this tier

Cheapest per second at these settings: Hailuo 02 (4 credits/s). Wan costs 9 credits/s here, so reach for it when you want its look or a second opinion on a prompt, not to save credits.

Per second is the fair yardstick: Hailuo 02 renders 6- or 10-second clips and has no 720p tier, so each row uses the closest setting that model can actually run.

02Tech specs

Wan 2.5 specs

Maker: Alibaba; Built by the Wan team at Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab. We call it through an API provider; Alibaba does not run or endorse this site.
Released: Sep 2025 (preview); Offered by API providers as Wan 2.5 Preview. Earlier Wan releases, 2.1 and 2.2, were published with open weights.
Clip length: 5s or 10s; Two fixed lengths. For longer scenes, cut several clips together in your editor.
Resolution: 720p · 1080p; 9 and 14 credits per second respectively — draft at 720p, finish at 1080p.
Aspect ratios: 16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1; Native square and vertical for text prompts; image prompts follow the shape of your photo.
Audio: Silent here; The API accepts an optional background-music file, which our generator doesn’t expose yet. Add sound in your editor.
Prompting: Auto-expansion on; The provider rewrites short prompts with a language model before rendering. Negative prompts are supported.
Free tier: None; Every model here is paid per second. A 5-second 720p Wan draft costs 45 credits.

Model facts: Alibaba’s Wan announcements and our API provider’s Wan model pages, checked October 15, 2026. Credits: our live price list.

03Neighbours

Wan 2.5 vs Kling 3.0 and Hailuo 02

Four models in a similar price band, all on one balance here. At 720p Wan costs 9 credits per second — less than Kling 3.0’s 10, more than Kling 2.5 Turbo’s 6 — so its value is native square output and a different look, not the lowest price.

	Wan 2.5	Kling 3.0	Hailuo 02	Kling 2.5 Turbo
Maker	Alibaba	Kuaishou	MiniMax	Kuaishou
Released	Sep 2025	Feb 2026	Jun 2025	Sep 2025
Clip length	5 or 10s	3–15s	6 or 10s (6s at 1080p)	5 or 10s
Resolution	720p · 1080p	720p · 1080p · 4K	768p · 1080p	720p · 1080p
Aspect ratios	16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1	16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1	16:9	16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1
Native audio	No	Optional	No	No
Cheapest clip	45 cr (5s 720p)	30 cr (3s 720p)	24 cr (6s 768p)	30 cr (5s 720p)
Reach for it when	720p look tests, square	Long takes, audio, 4K	Physics-heavy action	Fast, cheap drafts

04Image to video

Wan 2.5 image to video

Switch the generator to Image and the model animates your photo at 720p or 1080p — same tiers and same credits as text to video.

How Wan image to video works

Upload a photo you have the rights to and describe what moves. The model starts from your photo and follows its shape, so a vertical photo gives a vertical clip and a square one a square clip.

Test the motion at 720p

Image to video costs 9 or 14 credits per second, the same as text to video. Try the motion on a 5-second 720p draft for 45 credits, then re-render the keeper at 1080p.

Describe motion, not the picture

The photo already shows the subject and setting. Use the prompt for what moves, how the camera moves and the mood — and the negative prompt for anything that keeps creeping in.

Crop first

Wan keeps the framing of what you upload. Crop to 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 before uploading, so the platform shape is set and nothing important sits at the edge.

05Prompt recipes

Wan 2.5 prompt recipes

Prompts and settings tuned for this model. The stills are illustrations, not Wan renders — tap “Use this prompt” to load the recipe into the generator.

Wan 2.5 street recipe illustration: a girl longboarding down the middle of an empty autumn street at golden hour — A girl in a white shirt and dark skirt longboards down the middle of an empty tree-lined street, autumn leaves on the branches, low golden light, low tracking shot from behind
Recipe · Wan · 5s · 1080p

Wan 2.5 square recipe illustration: an anime magical girl with pink twin tails transforming in a starry sky — An anime magical girl with pink twin tails spins in a starry sky, ribbons and sparkles swirl as her dress turns into white and gold armor, ending on her blue eyes, square frame
Recipe · Wan · 5s · 720p

Wan 2.5 vertical recipe illustration: a woman with long dark hair watching the sun set over a city skyline from a balcony — The woman on the balcony watches the sun set over the city, the wind lifts her long hair, clouds drift across the orange sky, slow push-in
Recipe · Wan · 5s · 720p

Wan 2.5 animation recipe illustration: a fairy with iridescent wings holding a glowing butterfly beside a forest pool at night — A silver-haired fairy with iridescent wings sits on a mossy rock by a glowing forest pool at night, a blue butterfly flutters up from her hands, fireflies drift, ripples spread on the water, 3D animated film look
Recipe · Wan · 10s · 720p

Wan 2.5 sci-fi recipe illustration: a pink-haired woman in headphones walking through a neon cyberpunk city crowd at night — A woman with pink hair, a silver jacket and headphones walks through a crowd of commuters on a neon skybridge at night, holographic ads glow overhead, tracking shot at shoulder height
Recipe · Wan · 10s · 1080p

Wan 2.5 product recipe illustration: a steel wristwatch resting on dark slate in a moody studio — A steel wristwatch with a white dial rests on dark slate rocks, a warm light sweeps across the glass, reflections glide over the bracelet, slow push-in, square product loop
Recipe · Wan · 5s · 720p

06Good fit · poor fit

Where the Wan AI video generator fits

Good fit

Look development at 720p

Try ten looks for a shot at 720p for 450 credits in total, then re-render the winner at 1080p or on another model.

Good fit

Square feed posts

Native 1:1 output for feed posts and product loops, so nothing important gets cropped out of the frame.

Good fit

A second opinion

When a prompt keeps failing on one model, a model from a different lab may read the same words another way. One balance, one click to switch.

Poor fit

Dialogue and sound

No audio on our Wan route. Veo 3.1 or Kling 3.0 render speech and effects with the picture.

Poor fit

Takes over 10 seconds

Wan stops at 10 seconds. Kling 3.0 renders up to 15 seconds in one take.

Poor fit

The cheapest possible draft

Kling 2.5 Turbo costs 6 credits per second at 720p, and Hailuo 02 costs 4 at 768p, against 9 for Wan. Pick it for its look or square output, not to save credits.

07Prompt tips

Prompting Wan well

Expect your prompt to grow

The provider expands short prompts with a language model before rendering. A one-line idea gains lighting, lens and mood. If the result drifts, spell out what matters so the rewrite has less to invent.

Use the negative prompt

Wan reads a negative prompt of up to 500 characters. List what keeps creeping in — extra fingers, text, logos, camera shake — rather than writing “no …” in the main prompt.

Explore at 720p

A 5-second 720p clip costs 45 credits (≈ $0.61). Change one thing per try, then spend 70 credits on the 1080p version of the take you like.

Frame for the platform

Pick 9:16 or 1:1 before you render instead of cropping later. For image to video, crop the photo first — Wan follows the shape of the picture you upload.

08Cost per second

What Wan 2.5 costs here

Charged per generated second at the resolution you pick. Failed renders are refunded automatically, and the generator shows the exact total before you click Generate.

Model	Resolution	Credits / sec	With audio	Shortest clip	Longest clip
Wan 2.5	720p	9	—	5s · 45 cr	10s · 90 cr ≈ $1.22
Wan 2.5	1080p	14	—	5s · 70 cr	10s · 140 cr ≈ $1.90
Kling 3.0	720p	10	14	3s · 30 cr42 cr with audio	15s · 150 cr ≈ $2.04210 cr with audio ≈ $2.85
Kling 3.0	1080p	13	19	3s · 39 cr57 cr with audio	15s · 195 cr ≈ $2.65285 cr with audio ≈ $3.87
Kling 3.0	4K	47	—	3s · 141 cr	15s · 705 cr ≈ $9.58
Hailuo 02	768p	4	—	6s · 24 cr	10s · 40 cr ≈ $0.54
Hailuo 02	1080p	7	—	6s · 42 cr	6s · 42 cr ≈ $0.57

Example: five 5-second 720p drafts on Wan 2.5 (225 credits) plus one 1080p final (70 credits) is 295 credits, ≈ $4.01 on the Pro plan.

09Independent

An independent site, not Alibaba

PictureToVideo calls the model through an API provider. We are independent and not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Alibaba.
No Alibaba or Wan logos, screenshots or promotional videos. The stills here are illustrations, labelled as such.
Nothing here is labelled Wan 3.0. We list a model only once we can call it through an API and have priced it.
Prices come straight from our live price list — the same numbers the generator charges.
The comparison above uses the closest setting each model can run, and says so when it differs.
Our content policy applies on top of the provider’s safety checker: no sexual content, no real people without consent.

FAQ

Wan 2.5 FAQ

Still curious? Email support@picturetovideo.org — a human replies within a day.

01What is Wan 2.5?

It is a video generation model from Alibaba’s Wan team, released as a preview in Sep 2025. It turns a text prompt or a photo into a 5- or 10-second clip at 720p or 1080p, in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. On PictureToVideo it sits beside Kling, Veo and Hailuo on one credit balance.

02Is Wan 2.5 open source?

Not the version we run. Earlier Wan models, 2.1 and 2.2, were released with open weights you can download and run yourself. The current release is offered by API providers as a hosted preview, and that hosted endpoint is what this site calls. If you need local inference, look at the open Wan releases instead.

03Is there a Wan 3.0, and can I use it here?

This site runs Wan 2.5 only. People search for Wan 3.0, but we add a model once we can call it through our API provider and have priced it — not before. Until then, nothing here is labelled Wan 3.0, and any newer Wan will appear on this page with its own credits per second.

04How does Wan 2.5 image to video work?

Pick Image in the generator, upload a photo and describe the motion. The model animates it into a 5- or 10-second clip at 720p or 1080p, keeping the shape of your photo. Wan image to video costs the same per second as text to video — a 5-second 720p draft is 45 credits.

05Which Wan 2.5 resolution should I choose?

Use 720p (9 credits per second) for exploring ideas and phone-first social posts, and 1080p (14) for delivery or anything you will crop. The slider above shows a zoomed detail at each tier, plus how much picture each credit buys, so you can judge the trade-off on a real frame.

06Does Wan 2.5 generate audio?

Not here. The Wan API can take an optional background-music file, but our generator doesn’t pass one yet, so clips come out silent. Add music or effects in your editor, or pick Veo 3.1 or Kling 3.0 when you need dialogue and sound rendered with the picture.

07Why does Wan sometimes add details I didn’t ask for?

Prompt expansion is on by default at our provider: a language model rewrites short prompts with extra lighting, lens and mood before Wan renders them. That helps one-line ideas but can invent props. Write the important details yourself and use the negative prompt to block anything that keeps appearing.

08Is this Alibaba’s official Wan website?

No. PictureToVideo is an independent studio that calls the model through an API provider. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Alibaba, and you don’t need an Alibaba Cloud account. You pay in PictureToVideo credits, and failed renders are refunded automatically.