Wan 2.2 A14B
Wan 2.2 A14B is an open-source, cinematic-quality text-to-video model from Alibaba, featuring MoE architecture and precise aesthetic control.
Overview
What is Wan 2.2 A14B
Wan 2.2 A14B is Alibaba's open-source text-to-video model released in July 2025, designed for cinematic-quality video generation up to 720p. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to enhance visual fidelity and motion complexity while maintaining computational efficiency, supporting 5-second clips across multiple aspect ratios.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, Wan 2.2 A14B runs with full privacy—your prompts are never stored or profiled, ensuring zero retention. As an open, uncensored model, it offers permissionless access for creators and developers who want commercial rights without surveillance. You pay only per clip, with no subscription or tracking.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Cinematic-level aesthetics with precise control over lighting, composition, color tone, and camera angles.
- Strong generation of complex motions including facial expressions, hand gestures, and dynamic actions.
- Open weights under Apache 2.0 license enable full commercial use, self-hosting, and modification.
- Efficient MoE architecture delivers high model capacity without proportional compute cost increase.
- Available on Venice with private, uncensored access — no data retention or user profiling.
- Limited to 5-second clips, which restricts narrative or long-form content creation.
- No audio generation: output is video-only.
- 720p is the maximum resolution, and performance varies significantly with hardware.
- Slower generation times compared to some cloud-optimized rivals, especially at higher resolutions.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
Slow aerial drone shot gliding over a misty mountain valley at golden hour, sunlight piercing clouds onto a winding river, ancient pine forests on either side, ultra-smooth motion, professional color grading, atmospheric haze, 4K
Calm ocean waves rolling onto a black-sand beach at sunrise, golden light on wet sand, foam dissolving into the shore, a single silhouetted figure at the waterline, smooth continuous forward push, serene cinematic atmosphere
A slow tracking shot through a rain-soaked Tokyo street at night, neon reflecting in puddles, steam rising from a food cart, a person with a translucent umbrella, shallow depth of field, teal-and-orange grade, smooth steady camera
Capabilities
What it supports
- Text to video
- Image to video
- Reference to video
- Native audio generation
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Released
- July 28, 2025
- Modality
- Text-to-video
- Architecture
- Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) diffusion
- Resolutions
- 720p, 580p, 480p
- Clip lengths
- 5s
- Mode
- text-to-video
- Aspect ratios
- 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
- Audio
- No
- Privacy on Venice
- Private — zero retention
- Available on Venice since
- Sep 2025
- License
- Apache License 2.0
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "wan-2.2-a14b-text-to-video",
"prompt": "Aerial drone shot over a misty mountain valley at golden hour"
}'
# Use the returned queue_id with https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/retrieve.
# Call /video/complete after downloading if needed.Pricing
What it costs on Venice
Pay per clip on Venice — price scales with resolution and duration (5s–5s), from $0.06.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wan 2.2 A14B | 720p | Cinematic aesthetics, complex motion | Yes | from $0.06 |
| Wan 2.7 | — | Higher fidelity, newer training | Yes | from $0.55 |
| Wan 2.7 Enhanced | — | Optimized for motion and detail | Yes | from $0.64 |
| Kling O3 Pro | — | Longer clips, cloud speed | No | from $0.46 |
Open MoE model with strong aesthetic control and commercial rights.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Short-form cinematic content for social media and advertising.
- 02Concept visualization and storyboarding in film and design.
- 03AI-generated video assets for creators needing commercial rights.
- 04Local, privacy-preserving video generation without reliance on cloud platforms.
- 05Fine-tuned video experiments using open weights and community LoRAs.
Prompting
Getting better results
Be specific about lighting, time of day, and camera movement for better aesthetic control.
Use aspect ratio cues (16:9, 9:16, 1:1) to match platform requirements.
Include motion descriptors like 'panning', 'zoom', or 'slow-motion' for dynamic scenes.
Start with 480p for faster iterations before upgrading to 720p for final output.
Version history
Predecessor with smaller dataset and no MoE.
Current — MoE, cinematic aesthetics, open weights.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Wan 2.2 A14B is an open-source, text-to-video model developed by Alibaba, released in July 2025. It generates 5-second cinematic-quality videos up to 720p using a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture for enhanced visual fidelity and motion complexity.
On Venice, pricing starts at $0.06 per clip for 480p resolution and scales up to $0.11 for 720p, with all clips limited to 5 seconds. You pay per generation with no subscription or usage tracking.
Yes. Wan 2.2 A14B is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning you can download, modify, and use it commercially at no cost. The weights are publicly available on GitHub and Hugging Face.
Wan 2.2 A14B is text-to-video only and does not support tool use, image input, or audio generation. For hybrid text-and-image input, see the separate Wan2.2-TI2V-5B model.
Yes. The open weights allow local execution, especially on GPUs like the RTX 4090. With optimizations like GGUF quantization and T5 offloading, it can run on consumer hardware with 6–8GB VRAM for 480p output.
Wan 2.7 is a newer model with likely improvements in fidelity and motion, but Wan 2.2 A14B remains the open, commercially usable benchmark. For privacy and open access, 2.2 is ideal; for cutting-edge quality, 2.7 may surpass it.
Wan 2.2 A14B supports 720p, 580p, and 480p resolutions, all at 5 seconds duration. Aspect ratios include 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1, making it flexible for various platforms and formats.
Run Wan 2.2 A14B privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.