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What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

What a second costs on Wan

Wan (alibabacloud.com) publishes a per-second figure for three resolutions of Wan 3.0: $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 for 480P, 720P and 1080P on the Singapore deployment. The documentation also states a maximum of 30 seconds for one generation. As of 2026-09-12.

Per second on the ledger, by tierEach bar is one row of the table below, drawn to its entry under “per second”. Nothing is plotted that the row itself does not state.Per second on the ledger, by tierWan 3.0 1080P$0.20$0.20Wan 3.0 720P$0.10$0.10Wan 3.0 480P$0.05$0.05
Fig. 1 Each bar is one row of the table below, drawn to its entry under “per second”. Nothing is plotted that the row itself does not state.
Published rates on Wan, read from the vendor's Wan3.0-Video documentation on 2026-09-12.
TierIn creditsPer secondLongest clip
Wan 3.0 480P-$0.0530 s
Wan 3.0 720P-$0.1030 s
Wan 3.0 1080P-$0.2030 s

Inclusion rule. Tiers the vendor publishes a per-second rate for. A tier priced only as a monthly allowance is not converted and does not get a row. Order. As the vendor orders them on its own page.

1How many priced tiers each channel publishes

Priced tiers on each channelHow many separately priced tiers each channel puts on its own page, Wan marked. A channel with one tier is not cheaper or dearer for it, only simpler to quote. Recorded 2026-09-12.Priced tiers on each channelSceneMixer11 tiers11 tiersRunware8 tiers8 tiersVeo7 tiers7 tiersWaveSpeed AI7 tiers7 tiersNovita AI5 tiers5 tiersSora5 tiers5 tiersfal4 tiers4 tiersMiniMax4 tiers4 tiersPixVerse4 tiers4 tiersKling AI3 tiers3 tiersReplicate3 tiers3 tiersVidu3 tiers3 tiersWan3 tiers3 tiersDreamina1 tier1 tierLTX Studio1 tier1 tierRunway1 tier1 tier
Fig. 2 How many separately priced tiers each channel puts on its own page, Wan marked. A channel with one tier is not cheaper or dearer for it, only simpler to quote. Recorded 2026-09-12.
Published tiers per channel, with Wan marked. Recorded 2026-09-12.
ChannelPriced tiers published
Dreamina1 tier
fal4 tiers
Kling AI3 tiers
LTX Studio1 tier
MiniMax4 tiers
Novita AI5 tiers
PixVerse4 tiers
Replicate3 tiers
Runware8 tiers
Runway1 tier
SceneMixer11 tiers
Sora5 tiers
Veo7 tiers
Vidu3 tiers
Wan3 tiers
WaveSpeed AI7 tiers

Inclusion rule. Channels that publish a per-second rate, or a credit rate together with a credit price. Tiers are counted as the pricing page itself breaks them out. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.

2A ladder that doubles at each step, and a stated clip ceiling

The three resolutions double cleanly, so the resolution decision is easy to hold in the head: a minute of delivered 1080P costs four times a minute of 480P before any retakes. What is less common is the second number. The documentation states the maximum duration of one generation beside the model, and almost no pricing page in this ledger does.

Thirty seconds is long by the standards of this field. A ninety-second episode is three generations rather than six or more, and every boundary avoided is a join that cannot break continuity.

The Wan 3.0 video documentation as it appeared on 16 September 2026.
Fig. 3 Published as cloud documentation rather than as a product price list, which is common for channels sold through a platform.Screenshot of alibabacloud.com, captured 2026-09-16. Reproduced to show where this entry was read from.

3The figure is deployment-specific, and this row says which one

The documentation prints different figures for different regions, and the ones recorded here are the Singapore deployment because that is the international one. Recording a rate without recording which deployment it belongs to would make the row unusable for anyone outside that region.

This is the same reason the resolution is named beside every figure elsewhere in this ledger. A number without the condition it holds under is not a price.

4Where this channel appears inside other products

Several tools in this field run Wan underneath and resell it in credits. Those resold rates belong to the reseller and are recorded on the reseller's own row, because the buyer pays the reseller and the terms are the reseller's.

Nothing on the documentation page states whether a failed or refused generation is billed, so that stays unrecorded here rather than assumed from how the underlying platform behaves.

5Sources

Read from the Wan3.0-Video documentation published at alibabacloud.com, checked 2026-09-12. How credits are converted to dollars is on the method page; every channel side by side is on the ledger. What Wan publishes in the other columns: step up in resolution, longest single generation. Families Wan prices, set against every other seller of the same weights: Wan. Next along the ledger: PixVerse, Dreamina.