Alibaba opens Wan3.0 beta with 30-second video generation and document-to-video input
- Alibaba opened Wan3.0 in beta on August 24, raising a single video generation run to 30 seconds and listing long-clip consistency for characters, props, sound, spatial relationships, and visual style as a release capability.
- Wan3.0 accepts DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, and Markdown files as inputs, allowing existing office materials to be converted into video without first rewriting them as prompts or shot lists.
- The API costs 0.3, 0.6, and 1.2 yuan per second at 480P, 720P, and 1080P; a 30-second 1080P generation is 36 yuan, or 25.2 yuan during the August 24 to September 23 30% promotion.
- Alibaba made Wan3.0 available through Alibaba Cloud Bailian, Wan Jing Yi Ke, the Wanxiang website, and Qwen Chat's desktop client, while rolling it out gradually in the Qwen app.
- The article says ByteDance Seedance 2.5 had already reached 30-second single clips, while independent benchmarks for Wan3.0 have not yet appeared.