What the resolution step costs on Wan
Wan doubles at every step: five cents a second at 480P, ten at 720P, twenty at 1080P. One model, three resolutions, and the dearest second costs four times the cheapest with nothing else changing. As of 2026-09-22.
| Tier | Per second, as published |
|---|---|
| 480P | Five cents |
| 720P | Ten cents |
| 1080P | Twenty cents |
Inclusion rule. Resolutions with a published per-second figure in the model documentation, at the Singapore list price. Regional list prices that differ would be separate rows. Order. Ascending by resolution.
1Where Wan sits in this column
| Channel | Step up in resolution |
|---|---|
| Kling AI | Double to 1080p, five times to 4K |
| MiniMax | Half again from 768P to 2K |
| Replicate | Nearly three times for one step |
| Sora | Seven times from the cheapest to the dearest |
| Veo | Free on one tier, twelvefold across the range |
| Vidu | Just over double across three tiers |
| Wan | Four times from 480P to 1080P |
Inclusion rule. Channels publishing a rate at more than one resolution on the same page. A channel with a single figure has no step to price. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.
2A clean doubling is the plainest illustration in the register
Nothing about the model changes between these three lines. The same weights, the same maximum generation length, the same accepted inputs, and a rate that quadruples. That is pricing rather than cost, and it is unusually easy to see because there is only one model on the page.
A budget written against the bottom figure and delivered at the top is wrong by exactly four times. No care taken over the rate fixes that, and the fix is choosing the delivery resolution before choosing the channel.
3The cheapest tier here is also the default in at least one shop
480P at five cents a second is the tier one reseller in this register puts forward as its default video option, which says the lowest row on this page is a production choice rather than a preview setting.
For vertical short drama that is defensible: the delivery surface is a phone screen and the audience is not pixel-counting. It also means the four-times headroom above is money a production spends only by deciding to.
4Thirty seconds per generation is published alongside the rate
The documentation states a maximum of thirty seconds for one generation, which is the long end of this register and the figure that decides how many joins a fifteen-minute episode needs. Very few rate pages here publish it at all.
Read with the doubling, it makes the arithmetic complete: a thirty-second segment at 480P is a dollar fifty and at 1080P six dollars, and no further multiplication by joins or call counts is hiding behind either figure.
- Wan 3.0 at 480P$0.05 per secondSingapore list price
- Wan 3.0 at 720P$0.10 per secondSingapore list price
- Wan 3.0 at 1080P$0.20 per secondSingapore list price
- Maximum duration of one generation30 seconds
5The production behind the price
Price aside, what goes into the seconds behind “Wan resolution step” is described in SceneMixer's guides:
The Seedance 2.0 tiers render segments up to 15 seconds; use a Seedance 2.5 or Wan tier for 30-second takes.
SceneMixer, Seedance 2.0 Fast — “Does Fast render 30-second takes?” (read 2026-10-13)
In the editor this tier is greyed out for such a segment; pick a Seedance 2.5 or Wan tier.
SceneMixer, Seedance 2.0 (standard tier) — “Can a segment longer than 15 seconds use this tier?” (read 2026-10-13)
6Sources
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: Kling AI, Replicate. Every column: what each channel publishes.