Alibaba's most advanced video generation model, supporting over 10 visual creation capabilities in a unified system. Wan 2.6 generates 1080p video at 24fps from text, images, reference videos, or audio, with native audio-visual synchronization and precise lip-sync. Key features include reference-to-video (insert a character's appearance and voice into new scenes), multi-shot storytelling from simple prompts, synchronized sound effects and music, and support for 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 aspect ratios with clips up to 15 seconds.
Modalities
Price
from $0.04/second
Released
Mar 28, 2026
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | Wan 2.6 Image Elo | 1,017 |
| Artificial Analysis | Wan2.6 Text to Image Elo | 1,011 |
| Artificial Analysis | Wan 2.6 Elo | 1,185 |
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
| $0.04 | $0.10 | 119.5s |
End-to-end latency
119.51s
P50, best provider
100.00%
92.65%
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.
Alibaba's most advanced video generation model, supporting over 10 visual creation capabilities in a unified system. Wan 2.6 generates 1080p video at 24fps from text, images, reference videos, or audio, with native audio-visual synchronization and precise lip-sync.
Wan 2.6 costs from $0.04/second at 480p to $0.12/second at 1080p for Text to Video and from $0.10/second at 720p to $0.15/second at 1080p for Image to Video.
Wan 2.6 supports 5 and 10 second clips, can be steered with a first frame image and produces a matching audio track.
Wan 2.6 accepts text and images as input and returns video.
Wan 3.0 Prime, Wan 3.0, HappyHorse 1.1 and 2 more are other video models from Alibaba.
Wan 2.6 was released on March 28, 2026.