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Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P is an open-weights video model from Alibaba, released February 2025. Its published size is 14B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Alibaba Wan2.1 image-to-video 14B checkpoint at 720P (Wan-AI/Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P, pinned 8823af4), released 25 Feb 2025 with Wan2.1. PAI-Bench Table 12 gives the version 'Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P' (81 frames, 16 fps, 1280x720). Distinct from the catalogued T2V wan-2-1-14b and the API-only wan-2-1-i2v-plus / -turbo. Comparison-only: local route not verified in this pass.

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗

14B as named by Alibaba (model name); text and image encoders and VAE separate.

48.1±4.4comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 2 benchmark results across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The video models ranked either side of Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P, out of 139 with a score, then more from Alibaba.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
76MAGI-1 24B Sand AI48±4comparison only2025-04
77Kandinsky 6.0 Video Pro Sber48±7local~109GB2026-10
78Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P Alibaba48±4comparison only2025-02
79Cosmos-Predict2-2B-Video2World NVIDIA48±8comparison only2025-06
80Wan 2.1 14B Alibaba47±2api $0.24/sec +local~20GB2025-02
more from Alibaba
2Wan 3.0 Prime Alibaba80±7api $0.14/sec2026-08
4Wan 3.0 Alibaba79±2api $0.10/sec2026-08
9HappyHorse 1.1 Alibaba76±3api $0.14/sec2026-06

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$ what it's good at

image to video▁▁▂▂██▄▃▃▄▂▂ #56 of 74 * · 92% of its score · 2 tests

Beats HunyuanVideo 1.5, Wan 2.2 A14B, LTX-2 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Hailuo 01 (MiniMax video-01 / I2V-01) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
PAI-Bench-G human preference arena (Overall ELO)976.0 ✎▄······██··█ beats 2/6avg 1002▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 69%typical
PAI-Bench-G physical-AI video generation (Overall)80.8% ✎▃······▅·█▅█ beats 6/10easy · avg 81%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 23%blunt

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/Wan-AI ↗

$ how the score was worked out · PAI-Bench: A Comprehensive Be… 92%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
PAI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark For Physical AI (arXiv:2512.01989v1)2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 92%CC-BY-4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇ 8%
weighted average= 48.1

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