Wan 3.0 Prime
Alibaba's speed-tuned Wan 3.0 — 30-second single-take 1080p video with native audio and the full reference-input toolset.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "wan-3-0-prime-text-to-video",
"prompt": "Aerial drone shot over a misty mountain valley at golden hour",
"duration": "5s",
"resolution": "720p",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}'
# Use the returned queue_id with https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/retrieve.
# Call /video/complete after downloading if needed.Overview
What is Wan 3.0 Prime
Wan 3.0 Prime is Alibaba's speed-optimized edition of its Wan 3.0 video model, released on August 24, 2026. It generates clips from text, images, or reference inputs at up to 1080p and up to 30 seconds in one continuous take, with synchronized native audio and the full Wan 3.0 capability set.
Using it anonymously on Venice
On Venice, Wan 3.0 Prime runs under the anonymized privacy tier: your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training, and there is no generation history tied to your identity. It is also uncensored — no prompt filtering beyond the legal minimum. You pay per clip with credits instead of a subscription, so a 2-second 480p draft costs $0.18 and you only scale up when a prompt is worth it.
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Alibaba (Tongyi Wanxiang)
- Modality
- Text-to-video, image-to-video (first frame or first-and-last frame), reference-to-video
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- License
- Proprietary
- Clip lengths
- 2s, 5s, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s
- Resolutions
- 1080p, 720p, 480p
- Mode
- text-to-video
- Audio
- Yes
- Prompt limit
- 20,000 chars
- Released
- August 24, 2026
- Variant
- Speed-optimized Prime edition of Wan 3.0 — same API and capability set, faster inference
- Aspect ratios
- 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Aug 2026
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Longest clips in its class on Venice: a full 30-second unbroken take, double the 15-second ceiling of most rivals — so lighting, motion, and pacing hold instead of resetting at a splice.
- Native synchronized audio generated with the video by default, not bolted on afterward.
- The widest reference-input range of any Venice video model: still images, video clips, audio, documents, and web pages can all drive a generation.
- Speed-tuned Prime inference: same outputs as standard Wan 3.0 with substantially less waiting, which matters when you are iterating on prompts.
- A 20,000-character prompt limit, so you can paste an entire shot list or script rather than compressing it.
- Uncensored on Venice with zero retention of prompts — sovereignty over your creative work that the Big-Tech hosted versions do not offer.
- Closed and proprietary: no open weights, so it cannot be self-hosted or fine-tuned. Wan 2.7 and Wan 2.7 Enhanced are the open-weights alternatives on Venice.
- Prime carries a price premium over standard Wan 3.0 for the same outputs; if cost matters more than latency, the standard edition is the cheaper lane.
- Maxes out at 1080p: there is no 4K output option.
- On Venice the model is exposed as text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video; the broader Wan 3.0 editing and extension workflows are not part of the Venice API surface.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Continuous 20–30 second scenes — product walkthroughs, narrative shorts, establishing shots — that shorter models would need spliced takes for.
- 02Animating a still product photo or artwork into motion from a single frame, or locking motion between a chosen start and end frame.
- 03Keeping a character or product visually consistent across multiple clips using reference images.
- 04Turning a written brief, script document, or web page directly into video with matching pacing and audio.
- 05Vertical 9:16 social clips with dialogue and sound generated natively, no separate audio pass.
Prompting
Getting better results
Describe pacing in the prompt ("slow push-in for the first half, then a quick whip-pan") — smart duration reads implied pacing and sets clip length up to 30 seconds to match.
Iterate at 480p ($0.18 for 2s) to test composition cheaply, then re-render the winning prompt at 1080p.
Name the aspect ratio explicitly for the destination — 9:16 for Reels/TikTok, 16:9 for YouTube, 1:1 for feed posts.
For a recurring character or product, use the reference-to-video variant (wan-3-0-prime-reference-to-video) with reference images instead of re-describing the subject in text.
Write dialogue and sound cues directly into the prompt — audio is generated natively, so "he whispers: 'we're not alone' with distant thunder" becomes part of the clip.
For controlled motion, supply a start frame and an end frame via the image-to-video variant and let the model interpolate the action between them.
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
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Best for | Max duration | Max resolution | Native audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wan 3.0 Prime | Long single-take scenes with audio | 30s | 1080p | Yes |
| Grok Imagine 1.5 | Fast stylized clips | 15s | 1080p | Yes |
| Wan 2.7 Enhanced | Open-weights alternative | 15s | 1080p | Yes |
| MiniMax H3 Max | Budget 1080p clips | 15s | 1080P | Yes |
Wan 3.0 Prime is the pick when the brief needs a full 30-second unbroken take with synced audio and reference-driven consistency — no other Venice video model exceeds 16 seconds.
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-3-0-prime-text-to-video",
"prompt": "Aerial drone shot over a misty mountain valley at golden hour",
"duration": "5s",
"resolution": "720p",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}'
# 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 (2s–30s), from $0.18.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Wan 3.0 Prime is Alibaba's speed-optimized edition of the Wan 3.0 video model, released on August 24, 2026. It keeps the full Wan 3.0 toolset — text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, native audio, and up to 30 seconds at 1080p — while generating significantly faster than the standard edition.
Venice bills per clip, with price scaling by resolution and duration: a 2-second clip costs $0.18 at 480p, $0.36 at 720p, and $0.73 at 1080p. Longer clips up to 30 seconds cost proportionally more. There is no subscription required.
Neither. Wan 3.0 Prime is a closed, proprietary Alibaba model — the weights are not published, so it cannot be self-hosted or fine-tuned — and on Venice it is paid per clip starting at $0.18. If you need open weights, Wan 2.7 and Wan 2.7 Enhanced on Venice are the open alternatives.
It outputs 480p, 720p, and 1080p clips of 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 seconds, in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, and 3:4 aspect ratios, with synchronized audio generated alongside the video.
Yes. Native synchronized audio is produced with the video by default on every variant — text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video — so dialogue, ambience, and sound effects come as part of the clip rather than a separate audio pass.
Yes. The wan-3-0-prime-image-to-video variant animates a still image into motion, accepting either a single start frame or a first-and-last frame pair, at the same 480p/720p/1080p resolutions and 2–30 second clip lengths as the text-to-video variant, with audio.
Both output 1080p with native audio, but Wan 3.0 Prime doubles the clip ceiling to 30 seconds and accepts images, video, audio, documents, and web pages as references. Grok Imagine 1.5 is a solid choice for shorter stylized clips; choose Wan 3.0 Prime for long continuous takes and reference-driven consistency.
Venice runs Wan 3.0 Prime under its anonymized privacy tier: prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training, and generations are not tied to a personal history. You can use it in the Venice app or via the Venice API without building an account-linked generation trail.
Yes. The reference-to-video variant keeps a subject consistent using reference inputs, and the broader Wan 3.0 input set covers still images, video clips, audio, documents, and web pages. Note that frame images cannot be combined with reference images, videos, or audio in the same request.
Use Wan 3.0 Prime anonymously
Venice does not store your prompts. Chat history stays in your browser.