Tongyi Wanxiang

Tongyi Wanxiang Overview

Tongyi Wanxiang is Alibaba Cloud's AI visual creation platform powered by the proprietary Wan2.6 large model, offering industry-leading image and video generation capabilities. The platform supports generating high-quality images and videos directly from text descriptions, as well as creative editing and style transfer based on reference images.

The Wan2.6 model is fully open-sourced on GitHub and Hugging Face for free download. Tongyi Wanxiang also provides a free web experience and enterprise-grade Alibaba Cloud Bailian API, serving everyone from individual creators to commercial applications.

Core Features

• Professional Image Generation: High-fidelity artistic style reproduction, cinematic portrait quality, precise lighting details, smart graphic design for charts, illustrations, and posters
• Text to Video: Generate up to 15-second 1080P HD videos from text descriptions for complete narrative expression
• Image to Video: Generate dynamic videos from reference images while maintaining visual consistency
• Character Role-Play: Reference character appearance and voice from input videos for photorealistic role-play, supporting solo or multi-person shoots
• Intelligent Multi-Shot Narrative: Natural audio-visual sync, multi-person dialogue and song generation, smart shot composition for coherent multi-scene videos
• Precise Image Editing: Local editing, global editing, and multi-image creative fusion with integrated text-image layout generation
• Digital Human Generation: Create digital human video content
• Open Source Model: Wan2.6 model weights fully open-sourced for local deployment and custom development

How to Use

Web Experience

1. Visit tongyi.aliyun.com/wanxiang
2. Log in with Alibaba Cloud account or phone number
3. Select creation mode: image generation, video generation, image editing, etc.
4. Enter text description or upload reference image
5. Set resolution, duration, style parameters
6. Click generate and wait for results

API Integration (Alibaba Cloud Bailian)

import dashscope
from dashscope import ImageSynthesis

response = ImageSynthesis.call(
    model='wanx2.1-t2i-turbo',
    prompt='A cute panda playing in a bamboo forest, watercolor style',
    n=1,
    size='1024*1024'
)
print(response.output.results[0].url)

• Activate service and get API Key at Alibaba Cloud Bailian Console
• Install SDK: pip install dashscope
• Full docs: help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio

Local Deployment (Open Source)

• GitHub: github.com/wan-video/wan2.6
• Hugging Face: huggingface.co/Wan-AI
• High-performance GPU required; A100/H100 or RTX 4090 recommended

Key Advantages

• Strong Video Generation: Up to 15-second 1080P video, multi-shot narrative, audio-visual sync — leading among Chinese video generation models
• Character Consistency: Wan2.6 excels at maintaining character appearance and voice, ideal for film and advertising production
• Fully Open Source: Model weights open-sourced for free download, fine-tuning, and commercial deployment
• Alibaba Cloud Ecosystem: Deep integration with other Alibaba Cloud services for seamless enterprise infrastructure adoption
• Chinese Language Optimized: Specialized optimization for Chinese prompt understanding and Chinese cultural elements
• Multimodal Coverage: One-stop creation for images, videos, and digital humans — reducing tool-switching overhead
• Free Trial: Web version offers free generation quota to lower the barrier to entry
• Enterprise-Grade Reliability: Built on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure for high availability and low-latency API service

Pricing

Free Options

• Web Version: tongyi.aliyun.com/wanxiang provides free generation quota
• New User Benefits: Alibaba Cloud new users receive free trial credits

API Pricing (Alibaba Cloud Bailian)

Tongyi Wanxiang API is available through Alibaba Cloud Bailian, billed by calls or tokens:

• Text to Image: Priced by resolution and model version — see Alibaba Cloud Pricing
• Text to Video: Billed by video duration and resolution
• New Activations: Typically include free usage quota

For detailed pricing, visit: Alibaba Cloud Bailian Console or Alibaba Cloud Pricing Center

Open Source Local Deployment

• Model weights are free to download — only hardware costs apply

Support & Resources

• Official Site: tongyi.aliyun.com/wanxiang
• Bailian Console: bailian.console.aliyun.com — API management
• Documentation: help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio — developer docs
• GitHub: github.com/wan-video — open source code
• Hugging Face: huggingface.co/Wan-AI — model weight downloads
• Developer Community: developer.aliyun.com — technical discussions
• Support Email: tongyiwanxiang@service.aliyun.com
• Customer Service: 4008013260

Download & Access

• Web Version: Visit tongyi.aliyun.com/wanxiang — log in and start creating
• API Access: Activate service at Alibaba Cloud Bailian
• SDK: pip install dashscope
• Open Source Models:
  • GitHub: github.com/wan-video/wan2.6
  • Hugging Face: huggingface.co/Wan-AI
• Tongyi App: Wanxiang features are also integrated in the Tongyi Qianwen app — search in your app store

Additional Information

• Developer: Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Group), headquartered in Hangzhou, China
• Latest Version: Tongyi Wanxiang 2.6 (Wan2.6), released 2026
• Open Source: Wan2.6 released under open-source license supporting commercial use (subject to license terms)
• Use Cases: Content creation, marketing design, film production, game assets, e-commerce materials, educational content
• Technical Highlights: Multimodal generation, audio-visual sync, character consistency, multi-shot narrative
• Terms of Service: Available at the bottom of tongyi.aliyun.com/wanxiang
• Privacy Policy: Follows Alibaba Cloud privacy protection policy