Hailuo AI (MiniMax) vs Wan (Alibaba)
A spec-by-spec comparison of Hailuo AI (MiniMax) and Wan (Alibaba): pricing, free tier, clip length, resolution, watermark, commercial use and API access.
Key differences
- Wan is open source and can run locally; Hailuo AI is a hosted service.
- Free tier: Hailuo AI — Free credits for new users; Wan — Free to download and run locally (Apache 2.0).
- Max resolution: Hailuo AI — 2K (MiniMax H3); Wan — 720p.
- Commercial use: Hailuo AI — Paid plans; Wan — Apache 2.0 license.
| Hailuo AI (MiniMax) | Wan (Alibaba) | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan · from $14.99/mo | Open source |
| Free tier | Free credits for new users | Free to download and run locally (Apache 2.0) |
| Max clip length | 15s per generation (MiniMax H3) | |
| Max resolution | 2K (MiniMax H3) | 720p |
| Watermark on free plan | Yes | |
| Commercial use | Paid plans | Apache 2.0 license |
| Developer API | Yes | |
| Open source | No | Yes |
Hailuo AI is MiniMax's consumer app for generating video and images, now built around the MiniMax H3 and H3 Max models with multi-reference inputs. It also offers an agent mode and audio tools. It targets social creators and marketers, while developers can reach the same models through the MiniMax API platform.
- H3 model supports 4 to 15 second clips and up to 2K output
- Higher tiers (Ultra, Max) include unlimited use of older Hailuo models
- Same models available to developers via the MiniMax API
- Watermark-free downloads and commercial rights require a paid plan
- Buying credit packs alone does not remove watermarks
- Standard list price is $14.99/month; lower prices are temporary promotions
Wan is a family of open-weight video generation models from Alibaba. The Wan2.2 release includes 14B mixture-of-experts text-to-video and image-to-video models, a compact 5B model that does both, a speech-to-video model, and Wan-Animate for character animation and replacement. It is aimed at developers, researchers and ComfyUI/Diffusers users who want to run or fine-tune video models themselves.
- Permissive Apache 2.0 license, and the team claims no rights over generated content
- Broad task coverage: T2V, I2V, speech-to-video and character animation/replacement
- Integrated into Hugging Face Diffusers, with Hugging Face/ModelScope demo spaces
- 14B models need a GPU with at least 80GB VRAM for single-GPU inference
- 5B TI2V model needs at least 24GB VRAM (e.g. RTX 4090)
- Open models output at most 720P (480P/720P)
Specs last verified 2026-10-23 (Hailuo AI (MiniMax)) and 2026-10-23 (Wan (Alibaba)). See each tool page for sources.