RenderDrama

What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

The longest single clip on Wan

The Wan documentation states a maximum of thirty seconds for one generation. That is the longest published ceiling in this register, and it is stated by the maker of the model rather than by a shop reselling it. As of 2026-09-22.

A maker's ceiling that the resellers do not reprintThe model documentation states thirty seconds as the maximum duration of one generation, the longest published ceiling in this register. Five channels here resell the family and none of them print a clip ceiling on the page carrying their own rate.Maximum duration of one generation, as documentedOne call begins0 secondsSame weightsand sameaccepted inputsat 480P, 720Pand 1080Palike.The statedceiling30 secondsA dollar fiftyof footage at480P, sixdollars at1080P, beforeany retakes.A second call,and a joinBeyondEvery join is aplacecontinuity hasto survive, andnone of that ison a rate card.Thirty seconds holds a small scene; fifteen holds a beat
Fig. 1 A shop publishes what it charges; the model's own limits stay with the model, and a comparison built only from shop pages has a hole where the shot length lives.
The ceiling Wan's own documentation states, and the rates it applies across. Read from model documentation on 2026-09-22.
What is publishedAs the model documentation states it
Maximum duration of one generationThirty seconds
Which tiers it coversThe 480P, 720P and 1080P list prices alike
Where it is statedIn the model documentation, beside the API reference
Cost of a full-length generationA dollar fifty at 480P, six dollars at 1080P

Inclusion rule. Statements in the model documentation about the maximum length of one generation. A reseller's own ceiling, where it differs, belongs on that reseller's entry. Order. The ceiling first, then its scope, then what it costs to use.

1Where Wan sits in this column

The ceiling each channel prints on one generationThe longest single generation each of these channels states, Wan marked. Three channels state one; the rest of the register leaves it off the rate page. Recorded 2026-09-22.The ceiling each channel prints on one generationLongest single generationLongest singlegenerationHeyGenHeyGen — Longest single generation: Minutes, and it changes by tierSceneMixerSceneMixer — Longest single generation: 30 seconds on two families, 15 on two othersWanWan — Longest single generation: 30 seconds for one generation
Fig. 2 The longest single generation each of these channels states, Wan marked. Three channels state one; the rest of the register leaves it off the rate page. Recorded 2026-09-22.
Longest single generation, as each channel answering it has it, with Wan marked. Recorded 2026-09-22.
ChannelLongest single generation
HeyGenMinutes, and it changes by tier
SceneMixer30 seconds on two families, 15 on two others
Wan30 seconds for one generation

Inclusion rule. Channels stating a maximum length for one generation on a page a buyer can open. The channels that leave it out are counted in the questions section instead. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.

2The maker's ceiling travels with the model, and the resellers do not repeat it

Five channels in this register resell this model family and none of them print a maximum clip length on the page carrying their rate. The figure exists, in the maker's documentation, and a buyer has to leave the shop to find it.

That is a general pattern rather than a complaint about any one reseller. A shop publishes what it charges; the model's own limits stay with the model, and a comparison assembled only from shop pages will have a hole exactly where the shot length lives.

3Thirty seconds changes what a segment can be

At fifteen seconds a segment is a beat: one exchange, one action, one reaction. At thirty it can hold a small scene with a turn in it, which removes a join and removes the continuity risk that join carries.

For serial vertical drama that is the difference between roughly sixty pieces per episode and thirty. The rate per second is identical; the number of things that can go wrong is halved.

4A full-length generation is cheap at the bottom tier and not at the top

Thirty seconds at five cents is a dollar fifty; the same thirty seconds at twenty cents is six dollars. The ceiling makes the resolution decision more expensive in absolute terms, because a longer maximum means each discarded attempt wastes more.

That is the retake arithmetic the rate never shows. A production that rejects one generation in three is paying nine dollars per usable thirty seconds at the top tier, and no page in this register prices that because no page publishes a rejection rate.

5Sources

Read from the model documentation published at alibabacloud.com on 2026-09-22. The rate this column sits beside is on Wan; what the register accepts as published is on the method page. The same column on other channels: HeyGen, SceneMixer. Every column: what each channel publishes.