# Is Wan free to use?

**Short answer:** Some Wan models are free to download: Wan 2.2 is released with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, so you can run it on your own GPU. Hosted Wan 3.0 is paid: on 2026-10-17 it listed at $0.100/s at 720p and $0.200/s at 1080p.

URL: https://arc.katechon.technology/answers/is-wan-free
Updated: 2026-10-18

## Open weights versus hosted

The Wan2.2 repository is published under the Apache-2.0 license, with text-to-video, image-to-video, speech-to-video and animation models whose weights are on Hugging Face under Wan-AI. (Source: Wan-Video/Wan2.2 on GitHub, https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2, checked 2026-10-18)

We could not confirm open weights for Wan 2.5, 2.6 or 3.0 from Alibaba's public repositories on 2026-10-18. Treat the newest Wan versions as hosted, paid models unless the publisher releases them.

## Hosted Wan 3.0 prices

Wan 3.0 list prices quoted 2026-10-17 (audio on or off, same price):

| Variant | Resolution | USD per second | 10-second clip | One minute |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wan 3.0 | 720p | $0.100 | $1.00 | $6.00 |
| Wan 3.0 | 1080p | $0.200 | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| Wan 3.0 Prime | 720p | $0.140 | $1.40 | $8.40 |
| Wan 3.0 Prime | 1080p | $0.280 | $2.80 | $16.80 |

Model prices on this page are Atlas Cloud list prices quoted 2026-10-17 with its free /calculate endpoint, as published in our [AI video price index](https://arc.katechon.technology/ai-video-price-index). (Source: Atlas Cloud model catalog and /calculate list prices, https://www.atlascloud.ai/models, checked 2026-10-17)

## Is running it yourself actually free?

- The license is free; the compute is not. The larger Wan 2.2 models need a high-memory GPU, and renting one by the hour has its own cost.
- Self-hosting makes sense when you render a lot, need full control or cannot send content to a hosted API.
- For a few minutes of video, hosted Wan 3.0 at $6.00 per minute at 720p is usually cheaper than your time setting up a GPU.

## Where Katechon Arc fits

If you want a managed pipeline for a whole series rather than running a model yourself, Arc handles scripts, references, storyboards and video in one project, on Seedance 2.0 models.

Arc does not offer Wan and cannot run open-weight models you host; if open weights are the requirement, Wan 2.2 on your own hardware is the route.

## People also ask

### Is Wan 2.5 open source?

We found open weights for Wan 2.2 under Apache 2.0 but could not confirm a public Wan 2.5 release on Alibaba's repositories as of 2026-10-18.

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## Sources

- Wan-Video/Wan2.2 on GitHub: [github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2](https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2), checked 2026-10-18
- Atlas Cloud model catalog and /calculate list prices: [www.atlascloud.ai/models](https://www.atlascloud.ai/models), checked 2026-10-17