# wan3.0-video decision evidence

Wan 3.0 Video is Alibaba's all-in-one video model, on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio since 2026-08-06, that covers text-to-video, first-frame and first-and-last-frame video, multimodal reference, video editing and extension in one model, generating up to 30 seconds at 30 fps with native dialogue, music and sound effects at 480P, 720P or 1080P. Alibaba has published no Wan 3.0 weights. In the reviewed side-by-side test it beat MiniMax H3 on fast action, physics and camera motion but still struggled with dialogue-driven scenes.

Verified: 2026-09-25; snapshot: 2026-09-25.

## Published model card

As the vendor publishes it for the model and its weights; these are not the limits of a hosted endpoint.

- Context window: Not applicable (video model)
- Maximum output: 2–30 seconds per generation (or an automatic duration) at 30 fps, in 480P, 720P or 1080P (1080P by default), with native dialogue, background music and sound effects
- Modalities: Text; an optional first frame or first and last frames; or up to 20 reference materials per request (at most 10 images, 5 video clips and 5 audio clips, each clip set at most 15 seconds in total, plus a public document or web page); video with audio output. Editing and extension take a reference video.
- Parameter count: Not disclosed

## Open weights and deployment

Status: Unavailable. Alibaba has published no Wan 3.0 weights: on 2026-09-25 neither the Wan-AI organisation on Hugging Face nor the Wan-Video organisation on GitHub had a Wan 3.0 repository; their newest open releases are Wan 2.2 models. Model Studio serves wan3.0-video and wan3.0-video-prime as hosted models.

## Real-task reports

### [WAN 3.0 and MiniMax H3 compared clip by clip on scenes from an AI horror short](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVzUcIt9v38)

By [Rax Films](https://www.youtube.com/@Rax_films) (@Rax_films). AI short-film channel that makes survival-horror, frontier-thriller and sci-fi fan films with AI video models

Published: 2026-09-22; retrieved: 2026-09-25; verified: 2026-09-25.

- Task: Scenes from the author's own AI survival-horror short, Wrong Turn: Blood Money: fast chases and action, and slower acting and dialogue scenes
- Method: A side-by-side, clip-by-clip comparison of both models' generations for the same scenes at 16:9, shown without voiceover; the verdict is the author's own written breakdown in the video description.
- Finding: WAN 3.0 was a clear step ahead on high-speed action, kinetic physics, chase choreography and cinematic camera movement, handling rapid motion with fewer artifacts; MiniMax H3 won the acting and dialogue scenes on micro-expressions, emotional delivery, lip sync and keeping voice identity and accents, an area where WAN 3.0 still struggles.
- Limitation: One creator's qualitative verdict on scenes from their own film: there are no scores, and the description does not say how many generations were made, which platform or settings were used, or which Wan 3.0 tier was tested.
- Fast action, physics and camera motion: WAN 3.0 ahead
- Acting, dialogue and lip sync: MiniMax H3 ahead

## Public leaderboard coverage

A board missing from this list has no figure for this model in this snapshot; missing coverage is not a zero.

- LMArena Text-to-Video Arena — Arena score (Elo): 1476 ±13 (retrieved 2026-10-05) [source](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-video)
- LMArena Image-to-Video Arena — Arena score (Elo): 1480 ±11 (retrieved 2026-10-05) [source](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/image-to-video)
- Artificial Analysis Text To Video · With Audio — Elo: 1242 -9/9 (retrieved 2026-09-13) [source](https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video)
- Artificial Analysis Image To Video · With Audio — Elo: 1178 -8/8 (retrieved 2026-09-13) [source](https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/image-to-video)

## Curated comparisons

- [MiniMax-H3 vs wan3.0-video](https://dash.chinaapi.ai/models/compare/MiniMax-H3-vs-wan3.0-video)

## Official sources

- [Wan3.0 Video Generation](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/wan3-video-generation-guide) — Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, retrieved 2026-09-25
- [wan3.0 Video Generation Prompt Guide](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/wan3-video-generation-prompt-guide) — Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, retrieved 2026-09-25
- [Newly released models](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) — Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, retrieved 2026-09-25