Alibaba Wan 3.0
As of 1 Nov 2026, Alibaba Wan 3.0 is the RightSignal pick for best video generation.
Wan 3.0 is #1 on Artificial Analysis's text-to-video with-audio board (1175, with the previous pick, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, tenth on 1128) and #1 on the video editing board (1196), though on the silent text-to-video board it is only fourth (1133) behind HeyGen Video 1 (1143).
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Why Alibaba Wan 3.0 is the pick
- Wan 3.0 is #1 on Artificial Analysis's text-to-video with-audio board (1175, with the previous pick, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, tenth on 1128) and #1 on the video editing board (1196), though on the silent text-to-video board it is only fourth (1133) behind HeyGen Video 1 (1143).
- Alibaba's Model Studio docs confirm 2-30 second clips in a single job at up to 1080p and 30fps, with dialogue, sound effects and music generated natively in the same pass.
- It is hosted-only with no open weights, so confirm Alibaba Cloud's terms before commercial work.
Evidence
The sources behind this title’s record.
- artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video
- deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/
- huggingface.co/Wan-AI
- huggingface.co/Kijai/MiniMax-H3-experimental
- deepmind.google/blog/gemini-omni-1-1-flash-lets-you-bui...
- seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance
- openai.com/index/sora-2/
- deepmind.google/models/veo/
Vendor numbers are treated as claims until independently reproduced — how we judge. Structured benchmark comparisons are on the roadmap.
Caveats & challengers
- The lead is narrower than it looks: Wan 3.0 tops text-to-video with audio (1175) and video editing (1196) on Artificial Analysis, but sits fourth on the silent text-to-video board (1133, behind HeyGen Video 1 on 1143) and ninth on image-to-video with audio (1111), where Dreamina Seedance 2.5 leads on 1153.
- Note the boards were re-based for v2.1, with the scale pinned so Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) sits at 1000, so Elo figures quoted earlier this year are not comparable.
- There are no open weights either: Wan 3.0 is hosted on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and listed at $12 per minute, so the Wan-AI Hugging Face org carries only the older Wan 2.x releases.
At a glance
- Title
- Best video generation
- Licence
- not verified in dossier — check Alibaba's release terms
- Pick since
- 31 Oct 2026
- Last reviewed
- 1 Nov 2026
- Title holders to date
- 9
- Official page
- huggingface.co/Wan-AI
Title history
Every change, on the record.
Wan 3.0 is #1 on Artificial Analysis's text-to-video with-audio board (1175, with the previous pick, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, tenth on 1128) and #1 on the video editing board (1196), though on the silent text-to-video board it is only fourth (1133) behind HeyGen Video 1 (1143).
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