Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video API

alibaba/wan2.2-i2v-plus
Wan2.2 I2V by Alibaba-Cloud is a highly capable AI model designed for vision-language understanding, multi-modal reasoning, and intelligent content generation. It supports large-context multi-turn interactions with enhanced vision-to-text comprehension and generation precision.
Output
$0.1 / gen
Released
Nov 20, 2025

Overview

Wan2.2 Image-to-Video supports multi-turn conversational sessions facilitating dynamic user interactions with visual and textual data and enables function calling to orchestrate complex pipelines involving video synthesis, image captioning, and reasoning over visual content, suitable for automation and enterprise-level workflows.

Technical Specification

Performance Benchmarks

Wan2.2 excels in multi-modal tasks involving images and text, optimized for vision-language integration and cross-modal reasoning, achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on VQA benchmarks and image captioning tasks.

Key Capabilities

  • Vision Understanding: Superior in interpreting complex visual scenes and generating descriptive, coherent text
  • Multi-modal Reasoning: Excels at cross-modal inference combining image and text inputs for detailed analytic tasks
  • Content Generation: Supports high-quality image-conditioned text generation for reports, summaries, and creative tasks

API Pricing

  • 480P: $0.105/video
  • 1080P: $0.525/video

Optimal Use Cases

  • Visual Question Answering and Interactive Image Analysis
  • Automated Image Captioning and Content Summarization
  • Multi-modal Business Intelligence and Analytics
  • Creative Visual Storytelling and Report Generation

Code Sample

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Comparison with Other Models

  • vs. Popular Vision-Language Models: Wan2.2 Image-to-Video delivers superior VQA and image captioning accuracy, excelling in complex motion continuity and multi-modal reasoning, whereas popular models provide broader but less specialized multi-modal capabilities primarily for general image captioning and classification tasks.
  • vs. Text-only LLMs: Wan2.2 supports robust vision-language integration with direct image-to-video generation, while text-only LLMs are limited to text-based reasoning with no native vision understanding.
  • vs. Wan2.1: Wan2.2 Image to Video outperforms with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, trained on substantially more images and videos (+65.6% images, +83.2% videos), resulting in richer cinematic aesthetics, more stable video generation, and better motion coherence.

Limitations

Mainly optimized for image-to-video generation tasks, less suitable for pure text or non-visual applications.

API Integration

Accessible via AI/ML API. Documentation: available here.

Use cases

  • Visual Question Answering and Interactive Image Analysis
  • Automated Image Captioning and Content Summarization
  • Multi-modal Business Intelligence and Analytics
  • Creative Visual Storytelling and Report Generation

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How to use Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to alibaba/wan2.2-i2v-plus.
import requests, time

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}
job = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations",
    headers=headers,
    json={
      "model": "alibaba/wan2.2-i2v-plus",
      "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/wan2.2-i2v-plus",
    "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/wan2.2-i2v-plus","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.

Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video API Pricing

TypePrice
Output
$0.1 / gen

Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
$0.1 / gen
Video generation
$0.2 / sec (variable)
Video generation
$1.95 / 1M tokens
$0.10136 / sec
Video generation
$0.0711 / sec
Cinematic video + native audio

Frequently asked questions

Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video takes image as input and returns video.

Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video became available on November 20, 2025.

Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video is priced at $0.525 / gen.

Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video is billed per generation — a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.

Yes, Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video accepts image input as well as a text prompt.

Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video was built by Alibaba Cloud.

Send a request to v2/generate/video/alibaba/generation with alibaba/wan2.2-i2v-plus as the model id.

Yes. Wan 2.2 Plus Image to Video is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.

It generates high-quality videos from input images with improved stability.

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