The newest Wan model is Wan 3.0, released on August 24, 2026. The line's usual gap is about 108 days and 61 have passed, so it is mid-cycle.
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Latest: Wan 3.0 · Aug 24, 2026
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.
Doubles the maximum clip length to 30 seconds in a single pass, accepts documents (PDF, PPT, DOC) as input alongside text, image, audio and video, and improves face realism and reference consistency.
Compared with Wan 2.7 · the model it replaces
Generates clips twice as long in one go
Maximum clip length — seconds of video from a single generation
30 seconds
▲ up from 15 seconds · 2×
Scores higher than Wan 2.7 when people compare videos blind
Artificial Analysis Text to Video Arena (with audio) — people pick the better clip without knowing the model
1229
▲ up from 1098 · +131 Elo · #2 on Artificial Analysis with audio, Sep 2026
Costs from 5 cents per second of video
Price per second of video — 480p / 720p / 1080p
$0.05 / $0.10 / $0.20
✦ launch list price by resolution
New text-, image- and reference-to-video models plus a video-editing model, two days after the Wan2.7-Image model that unified image generation and editing; available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and the Wan website.
Adds reference-to-video, so creators can appear in clips with their own look and voice, plus multi-shot videos up to 15 seconds; offered through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and the Wan website, with no downloadable weights.