Name: Wan 2.6 Text to Video API
Brand: Alibaba Cloud

Overview

What is Wan 2.6 Text to Video API?

Wan 2.6 Text-to-Video generates high-quality videos from text descriptions with advanced motion modeling.

Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Text
- Output: Video

Performance Benchmarks
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Wan 2.6 Text to Video API Pricing
- Pricing on request

Where to Use Wan 2.6 Text to Video

Short-form video generation
Create clips for social, ads, and product demos from text or image prompts.

Previsualization and storyboards
Rapidly prototype motion concepts before committing to production.

Use cases

Generate short video clips directly from a written prompt, including scene descriptions and camera/action details.

Create storyboards and previsualizations for early creative planning, especially when a team needs a quick visual draft from text.

Produce social media and short-form content such as vertical clips, reels, and other platform-native videos from scripts or hooks.

Support advertising and marketing concepts, including short-form ad creatives, campaign drafts, and product or campaign mockups.

How to use Wan 2.6 Text to Video API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to alibaba/wan2.6-t2v.

import requests, time

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}
job = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations",
    headers=headers,
    json={
      "model": "alibaba/wan2.6-t2v",
      "prompt": "A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range"
    },
).json()
gid = job["id"]

while True:
    res = requests.get(f"https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id={gid}", headers=headers).json()
    if res.get("status") in ("completed", "error"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(res["video"]["url"])

const headers = {
  Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
};
const job = await (await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations", {
  method: "POST",
  headers,
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "alibaba/wan2.6-t2v",
    "prompt": "A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range"
  }),
})).json();

let res;
do {
  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5000));
  res = await (await fetch(`https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id=${job.id}`, { headers })).json();
} while (!["completed", "error"].includes(res.status));
console.log(res.video.url);

# submit the generation — the response contains the job "id"
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"alibaba/wan2.6-t2v","prompt":"A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range"}'

# then poll until status is "completed" — video.url holds the result
curl "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id={id}" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY"

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.