Wan3.0
Vendor-sourced facts
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) [1] |
| Licence | Proprietary (API/app only) [1] |
| Licence detail | API only via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (wan3.0-video, wan3.0-video-prime) and wan.video; weights not published (last open-weight Wan release is Wan2.2) [1] |
| Modes | Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Video edit [1] |
| Release | 2026-08-24 [1] |
| Max resolution | 1080P [1] |
| Max clip duration | 30 s [1] |
| Native audio | Yes [1] |
| Access | API, web app [1] |
| Vendor page | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/use-video-generation [1] |
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On Design Arena's video board Wan3.0 appears as “Wan 3.0”: Elo 1329 · #4 of 48 · win rate 63.5% ± 1.5% · 3,891 votes (2,469W 1,422L) · avg 219.5s.[2] These are their voters' numbers, not this arena's — our own arena has no votes yet.
Source: Design Arena (designarena.ai/leaderboard/video), checked 2026-10-21.
About Wan3.0
Wan3.0 is Alibaba's August 2026 model, served from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and wan.video. It is widely described as open, and that is the single most common error about it: Alibaba's own Hugging Face organisation publishes weights only up to the Wan2.2 family, so Wan3.0 is catalogued here as proprietary, API-only. [1]
The stated ceilings are 1080P and thirty seconds with native audio, and Alibaba notes the model can be called without an application process. [1] Among the API-only entries it is one of the few that combines a long clip ceiling with general availability rather than a waitlist, which makes it a natural opponent for the open-weights models in a battle.
“now officially available and can be called without the need to apply”
Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) on Wan3.0 [1]
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Sources
- Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) — Wan3.0, vendor documentation https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/news/product/video-generation-model-wan30-officially-launched-nsb — checked 2026-10-06
- Design Arena — video leaderboard https://www.designarena.ai/leaderboard/video — checked 2026-10-21
Each [n] above is the vendor page the fact beside the marker was read from, on the date shown. Where a vendor states nothing, the table says “Not stated” and no value is inferred from anywhere else.