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Best image-to-video models to run locally on a 16GB Mac

A leaderboard of the best image-to-video models you can run locally on a Mac with 16GB of memory. Wan 2.2 TI2V 5B is #1 right now. Models are ranked on human votes and tests that turn an image into a video. Each model shows the download that fits and the command to run it.

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Scores use reviewed image to video evaluations only. Compare scores within this task. Models without task measurements are excluded.

Models for 16GB RAM · Apple Silicon → ~11GB fast · local only · reset
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58Wan 2.2 TI2V 5B · gguf-q4_k_m + umt5 q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Alibaba40±4local~11GBhow to run › Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI (arXiv:2606.02800v4)Target-Bench: Can Video World Models Achieve Mapless Path Planning with Semantic Targets?PAI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark For Physical AI (arXiv:2512.01989v1)What-If World: A Causal Benchmark for General World Models in Embodied Scenarios (arXiv:2605.27589v1), Table 2

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74 of 74 catalogue models listed here · sources and licences

* new or thinly tested: ranked on too few benchmark results · † only the maker’s own numbers so far · ~RAM is estimated; full context may need more memory