Video models
Wan or Seedance?
Both are cheap enough to try often. Do you need many single clips, or a scene that cuts?
The short answer
Alibaba
Wan
Wan for a stack of single clips from photos you already have: a product turning, light moving across a shelf, ten openings tested for the price of one premium take.
Freedom to make it
Open weights mean fewer surprise refusals on ordinary creative work.
Made for many takes
Fast and affordable enough to try ten versions and keep the best.
Stills to motion
Brings illustrations and photos to life without redrawing them.
ByteDance
Seedance
Seedance for a short social scene with coverage: wide, medium and close of the same moment, the same people in each, handed back in order.
Several shots, one scene
Wide, medium and close in a single generation, already edited.
Social-first framing
Vertical by instinct, with hooks that land in the first second.
Style on demand
Anime, clay, film grain or glossy commercial, held steady.
The next question
Either way the price is quoted before the render runs, and a render that fails is never charged for. If you would rather not choose, the studio picks for you on every ordinary render — this page is for when you would.