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Wan

Open source

Open-source text/image-to-video. The local/video escape hatch when cloud credits die.

No cardSelf-hostableAPI
Official siteGitHub

Free tier

Open weights. Unlimited if you have the GPU. Also offered as paid APIs.

Limits

Needs serious VRAM. First weight download is huge. Not phone-first.

Best for

  • Self-hosted video
  • No-card generation
  • Research clips

How to use it well

  1. Do not start here on a 8 GB laptop. Use a rented GPU or a hosted Wan endpoint first.
  2. If you have a 24 GB card, follow the official ComfyUI or CLI recipe; pin a model revision.
  3. Generate 4–5 seconds. Longer clips OOM and waste hours.

Myanmar notes

Skip unless you have a workstation or a cheap cloud GPU hour. For MM phones, stay on Flow/Kling.