Wan 2.2 Enhanced
Open-source, cinematic-quality image-to-video model with natural motion and prompt templates, now enhanced for stability and realism.
Overview
What is Wan 2.2 Enhanced
Wan 2.2 Enhanced is an open-source image-to-video model from Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab, released in August 2025 as an upgraded version of Wan 2.2. It generates 5s–8s cinematic-quality clips from images with natural motion, enhanced stability, and built-in prompt templates for styles like cinematic, animation, and action sequences.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, Wan 2.2 Enhanced runs with full privacy: your image prompts are anonymized and never stored. This open, uncensored model operates under Venice’s permissionless ethos — no account history, no profiling. You retain sovereignty over your creative inputs while accessing state-of-the-art video generation without Big Tech surveillance.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Cinematic-level aesthetics with precise control over lighting, composition, and camera motion.
- Natural, fluid motion built-in: enhanced for smooth transitions and realistic dynamics.
- Open-source and uncensored, allowing self-hosting, fine-tuning, and integration into private pipelines.
- Smart prompt templates for one-click style application (cinematic, animation, action, etc.).
- Optimized for stability and GPU memory efficiency, enabling longer and more reliable generations.
- No audio output: video clips are silent.
- Limited to short clips (5s–8s), not suitable for long-form content.
- No end-to-end encryption or TEE protection on Venice — privacy is anonymized, not fully encrypted.
- Lower resolution options (480p/720p) compared to some commercial 1080p leaders.
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 (Tongyi Lab)
- Released
- August 4, 2025
- Modality
- Image-to-video
- Architecture
- MoE (Mixture of Experts) in diffusion model
- Open weights
- Yes — Apache 2.0
- Resolutions
- 720p, 480p
- Clip lengths
- 5s, 8s
- Mode
- image-to-video
- Audio
- No
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Aug 2026
- 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-enhanced-image-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–8s), from $0.20.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Best for | Max resolution | Open weights | Audio | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wan 2.2 Enhanced | Open-source, cinematic-quality image-to-video with natural motion and style templates. | 720p | Yes | No | from $0.20 |
| Wan 2.7 Enhanced | Successor model with likely improvements in motion and resolution — open weights retained. | — | Yes | — | from $0.68 |
| Kling O3 Pro | Closed model with strong ecosystem support; native audio likely available. | — | No | — | from $0.46 |
| MiniMax H3 Enhanced | Proprietary model focused on expressive character animation, not open for self-hosting. | — | No | — | from $0.50 |
Open-source, cinematic-quality image-to-video with natural motion and style templates.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Social media content creators needing quick, stylized video clips from still images.
- 02Marketing teams generating short-form ads with consistent cinematic quality.
- 03AI artists experimenting with motion styles using open, customizable models.
- 04Developers integrating private video generation into secure, on-premise workflows.
- 05Animation studios prototyping scenes with natural motion templates.
Prompting
Getting better results
Use descriptive style keywords like 'cinematic' or 'slow motion' to activate built-in templates.
Start with 480p for faster, cheaper iterations before upgrading to 720p.
Include details about lighting and camera movement for better aesthetic control.
Version history
Initial release with MoE architecture and cinematic quality.
Upgraded with natural motion, prompt templates, and stability improvements.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Wan 2.2 Enhanced is an open-source image-to-video model from Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab, released in August 2025. It upgrades Wan 2.2 with smoother motion, improved stability, and one-click style templates for cinematic, animation, and action content.
On Venice, pricing starts at $0.20 per 480p, 5-second clip, scaling with resolution and duration. A 720p, 5-second clip costs $0.40. You pay per generation, not per subscription.
Yes. Wan 2.2 Enhanced is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning you can use, modify, and self-host it freely. On Venice, you pay only for compute when generating videos.
No. Wan 2.2 Enhanced generates video only — audio is not included. Clips are silent and must be post-processed with sound separately.
It supports 720p and 480p resolutions, with clip lengths of 5 or 8 seconds. Higher resolution increases cost and processing time.
Yes. On Venice, your prompts are anonymized and not stored. The model runs in an uncensored, permissionless environment, ensuring your inputs remain private and sovereign.
Wan 2.2 Enhanced is open-source and privacy-focused, ideal for developers and creators wanting control. Kling O3 Pro likely offers audio and a more polished ecosystem but is closed and proprietary. Choose Wan for sovereignty, Kling for production features.
No. Wan 2.2 Enhanced is a pure image-to-video model without tool integration or API calling capabilities. It generates clips directly from image prompts.
Run Wan 2.2 Enhanced privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.