The production-stable Wan: four proven workflows — generate, animate, reference, edit — at 1080p, while the 3.0 beta sits behind an invite wall. Type a prompt below and try it, no waitlist.
Developer
Alibaba Tongyi Lab
Type
T2V · I2V · reference · edit
Duration
Up to 15 s
Max output
1080p
Control
First / last frame
Released
March 2026 · stable
Successor
Wan 3.0 →
Our one-line verdict: the dependable Wan. While 3.0 lives behind an invite wall and beta capacity, this is the tier you schedule client work on.
Wan 2.7's case in late 2026 is stability. Released in March, it runs the Wan playbook as four dedicated workflows — text-to-video, image-to-video, reference generation and editing — each mature, documented and running on production capacity, while the shinier Wan 3.0 sits in invite-only public beta with the growing pains that implies. It tops out at 15 seconds and 1080p, can't read a PDF, and splits across models what 3.0 fuses into one — and none of that matters at 9 a.m. when a client deliverable needs a model that simply works. One honest asterisk carried from the wider Wan story: the line's open-weight history is contested, so verify official repositories before planning any self-hosting.
Judged from our own renders and the published record, revised as the facts move — that's a feature of this page, not a disclaimer.
• Production stability.
A March release with months of real traffic behind it: predictable render times, known failure modes, no beta capacity roulette. The Wan you put in a client timeline.
• First-and-last-frame control.
Pin the opening and closing frames and let the model solve the move between them — the cleanest way to guarantee a clip starts and ends exactly on brief.
• Four mature workflows.
Generation, animation, reference and editing each run as a dedicated, documented mode. Less magic than 3.0's all-in-one, more predictability per job.
• No waitlist, anywhere.
3.0's pricing page says invitation-only; 2.7 just runs — upstream and here. Access is a feature when the deadline is real.
• 15-second, 1080p ceilings.
Both mid-pack by autumn standards. The 30-second single take and the document-to-video trick are 3.0's page, not this one.
• The four-model split.
Reference work and editing mean switching workflows rather than staying in one model — the pipeline friction 3.0 was built to remove.
• Open weights: contested history.
Accounts differ on which Wan versions actually shipped open and how completely. If self-hosting matters, trust the official repos, not the coverage — including ours.
• The succession clock.
When 3.0 leaves beta and drops the invite wall, 2.7's stability argument narrows to price. Plan migrations with that in mind.
Copy into the generator above, swap the brackets, render.
First frame: the [sneaker] in its open box, top-down. Last frame: the same sneaker on a lit pedestal, three-quarter view. → "Solve the move between them — a rise and slow rotation, soft studio light, shallow focus."
First/last-frame control turns 'roughly what I wanted' into 'exactly where it starts and ends.' Design the two frames like poster art; the model's job is only the journey. The demo beside the generator is this prompt.
Upload: 3 reference images of your product
"Three 5-second cutaways: on the workbench, in the gym bag, laced up at the track — same colorway, same wear marks, matching light per location."
The reference workflow keeps the exact product identical across separate generations — the bread-and-butter e-commerce job 2.7 has been doing reliably since spring.
Start from: a clip you already generated
"Replace the plain white backdrop with a blurred workshop interior. Keep the product, its motion and the camera path untouched."
The dedicated edit workflow swaps what's named and protects what's listed — the protection clause is what keeps the edit from bleeding. Fixing a 15-second render beats paying for it twice.
The stability-versus-frontier decision, with the other 30-second model as the outside option. Same prompts where the modes overlap, judged by what we'd ship. All three selectable in the generator above.
the stable production tier: four mature workflows at 1080p while the 3.0 beta scales. The version in the generator above.
the commercial-era Wan that consolidated the line's reputation for reliable 15-second generation, splitting generation, reference and editing into dedicated models.
30-second takes, document-to-video, all-in-one architecture, invitation-only pricing upstream. 2.7 stays the tier you can actually schedule. Full page: /models/wan-3-0.
For scheduled, deadline-bound work — yes, and access is the whole argument: 3.0's upstream pricing is invitation-only beta, while 2.7 runs on stable production capacity at a lower rate. 3.0 earns its premium on 30-second takes and document input. Client work here; frontier experiments there.
The frontier Wan: 30-second takes and the only model that reads documents.
The other 30-second model, cut to your soundtrack.
The other value workhorse — with native audio included.