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Wan Animate: Pricing, Performance & Examples
Wan Animate is a video generation model from WAN Video, released in January 2026.
Wan 2.2 Animate: replicates the expressions and movements of a character from a reference driver video onto a target character image.
Wan Animate examples
Recent arena outputs from Wan Animate, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Wan Animate API
Image-to-video start frame.
Run a request to see the response
Use it in your code
OpenAI-compatible endpoint through the LLM Stats gateway.
import requests
# Create the generation. wait="auto" long-polls (up to 60s) so most short
# jobs return as "completed" in a single round-trip.
res = requests.post(
"https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1/generations",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
json={
"model": "wan-animate",
"input": {"prompt": "A timelapse of clouds moving across the sky"},
"wait": "auto",
},
)
job = res.json()
# If it didn't finish inside the wait window, poll the same resource.
while job["status"] in ("queued", "running"):
res = requests.get(
f"https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1/generations/{job['id']}",
params={"wait": 60},
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
job = res.json()
if job["status"] == "completed":
print("video:", job["output"]["media"][0]["url"])
else:
print("Failed:", job["error"]["message"])Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.
Wan Animate pricing
Providers
Wan Animate starts at $0.0800 per second of 1080p video via Fal.
| Provider | 720p $/s | 1080p $/s | high $/s | Latency s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.0800 | $0.0800 | $0.0800 | — | / |
Wan Animate latency
Wan Animate time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
Wan Animate benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Performance by category and language
Where Wan Animate is strongest across prompt themes and languages. Conservative TrueSkill score (μ − 3σ), only axes with 3+ votes.
Quality Tracker
Similar Models
How Wan Animate compares to its closest neighbors on each video arena it competes in.
Wan Animate license
Wan Animate is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use.
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use allowed
Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use
Wan Animate resources
Official sources for Wan Animate: api documentation, official playground.
Models like Wan Animate
Other video models ranked closest to Wan Animate.
FAQ
Common questions about Wan Animate.