# Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) vs Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

> Alibaba Wan scores 66.4 (B) to Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash's 55.1 (C) for video generation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash's 55.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash leads on maintenance & community. Both do video generation.

- Alibaba Wan (Model Studio): grade B, 66.4/100, rank #474 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alibaba-wan.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alibaba-wan.json
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #972 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.json
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## Which one, for what

### Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) (B)

Good for: Best when one call has to turn mixed references (images, clips, audio, a document) into a long clip with sound, or when you want the option to self-host older Wan weights.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 70 against 45
- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 54
- Security & auth, 80 against 50
- Transparency & trust, 78 against 72

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: Result URLs and task ids expire after 24 hours

### Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (C)

Good for: Short product, ad and explainer clips with audio where an agent needs to revise a clip over several turns rather than regenerate it.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 77

Watch for: No free tier, per the pricing page


## Why the edge

### Security & auth: Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +30

- Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) (80): Model reading of the checklist (credential, training, retention, operator visibility, programme). API keys belong to a workspace, can be limited to up to 30 models and an IP allow-list of 20 entries, can be reset, and temporary keys last at most 1,800 seconds (30). The Model Studio privacy notice (updated 11 October 2026, re-read on 2 November) says Alibaba Cloud will never use customer data for model training (20). Result URLs and task ids expire after 24 hours (5). We found no deletion call and no retention period for prompts and inputs (0). Audit logs record every model call by default (request id, model, latency, status) and monitoring filters by API key (15). SOC 2 named in the Model Studio privacy notice (5) and a compliance repository linked from it (5). No security.txt on alibabacloud.com (the path answers an HTML page on 2 November), and we didn't find a bug bounty page for Model Studio (0). 30+20+5+0+15+5+5+0 = 80.
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (50): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with no scopes and a token accepted in the URL (15 of 30, the platform's deduction). The pricing page, read on 11 November, lists no free tier for Omni 1.2 Flash, and paid-tier content isn't used to improve Google's products (15 of 20). Retention of generated videos isn't stated in the guide (5 of 15). Request logs described for Generate Content, not confirmed for Interactions video calls (10 of 15). security.txt and a reward programme, no certification naming the API (5 of 20). Outputs carry a SynthID watermark, and uploads of minors and some recognisable people are refused in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. 15 + 15 + 5 + 10 + 5 = 50.

### Reliability: Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +25

- Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) (70): Alibaba Cloud runs its own status page at status.alibabacloud.com with per-product components (20). The page renders in the browser only (re-read on 2 November, robots.txt a plain 404), so we couldn't read its incident history (5). The 1 October note also cited a third-party status monitor; that reading is struck, since such copies aren't a vendor record, and no points rested on it. The wan3.0-video and wan3.0-video-prime model pages list 300 requests a minute in every region, per the 1 October check, and the rate-limit page (updated 29 October 2026, re-read on 2 November) caps wan3.0-video and wan3.0-video-prime at 5 requests a second and 5 concurrent requests in Singapore (15). The rate-limit guide documents 429 for bursts and says limits usually recover within a minute, with no Retry-After header, and the pricing page says failed requests aren't billed (10). The Model Studio inference SLA promises 99.9 per cent monthly uptime with service credits on paid inference, per the 1 October check (10). Wan 3.0 carries no preview label in the docs (10). 20+5+15+10+10+10 = 70.
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (45): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Status page at aistudio.google.com/status with no readable components or history (10 of 20) and no readable incident record (5 of 30). Platform rate-limit tiers; the public rate-limit page has no Omni 1.2 row (5 of 15). Backoff guidance for 429 and 503 and SDK retries (15). No SLA read for the Gemini API route, and the Omni guide says provisioned throughput isn't supported there; Google's post puts it on Google Cloud (0). Google's post of 5 November says generally available, and the SDK commit marks the model GA (10). 10 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 45.

### Agent ergonomics: Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +9

- Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) (63): Create and query calls return small JSON objects with a task id and a video URL (15). No webhook or callback is documented, so an agent polls, every 15 seconds per the docs (0 of the 10 for callbacks). Resolution, ratio and duration control output size (10). We found no task list endpoint in the video docs (0 of 10). The error page gives a code and a fix an agent can act on, though 429 guidance stops at retry later (18). No idempotency key, and the docs say not to resubmit but to keep polling. Failed calls aren't billed, so a retry after a failure is safe (10). Every parameter except the prompt or media has a default (5). The official Python SDK `dashscope` is current. We didn't confirm a second official SDK for video in this run (5). 15+0+10+0+18+10+5+5 = 63.
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (54): Read on the lines the Veo listing used for video models. Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Per the Omni guide (written for 1.1 on the same API), the video comes back in the response, inline as base64 or as a Google-hosted file to poll until ACTIVE with delivery uri for outputs over 4 MB (12 of 15). No callback (0 of 10). Resolution, aspect ratio and delivery control output size, and edits run turn by turn through previous_interaction_id without regenerating from scratch (10). No list of past jobs found (0 of 10). Standard Google error statuses on the platform, with FAILED as the only Omni-specific state (12 of 14). No idempotency key, and whether failed generations are billed isn't stated (5 of 20). Only model and input are required, with 720p and 16:9 as defaults, and SDKs in five languages plus the CLI (15). 12 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 12 + 5 + 15 = 54.

### Maintenance & community: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +6

- Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) (77): Model reading (notice periods and churn in place of release counts). The `dashscope` SDK shipped 2.0.3 on 30 October 2026, after 1.27.8 (19 October), 2.0.1 (21 October) and 2.0.2 (27 October), and the Wan 3.0 API reference was updated on 15 October; the newest Wan model is still wan3.0-video-prime (20 August 2026) (30). The decommissioning policy (updated 27 October 2026) gives stable models, dated versions included, at least 3 months' notice before end of service and preview models 14 days, by announcement, email and internal message. Every Wan model on the pricing page of 29 October is still priced, none was found retired in the 90 days to 2 November, and the policy page's 10 October and 19 January 2027 batches link announcements that are drawn by script and unread. The preview window is short, so 15 of 20, as on 1 October. Dated model release page updated to 30 October, plus Alibaba Cloud ticket support (12 of 15). Current official SDK on PyPI (15). PyPI links no source repository or CI (5). 30+15+12+15+5 = 77.
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (83): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released and generally available on 5 November 2026; the SDKs added it to the Interactions model list on 10 November (30). Deprecations with earliest dates and no stated minimum notice (4 of 12). Churn in Google's video line: every Veo model on the Gemini API shut down by 22 October, and from 3 December 2026 requests to Omni 1.1 Flash are routed to 1.2 Flash and billed at its rates, four weeks after this release (4 of 8). Dated SDK and platform changelogs (15). SDK replies not sampled (5 of 10). Current SDKs in five languages (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 4 + 4 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 83.

### Transparency & trust: Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +6

- Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) (78): The API models are closed under Alibaba Cloud's product terms. Wan 2.1 and 2.2 weights are Apache 2.0 on GitHub, so part of the family can be self-hosted (20). The privacy notice and FAQ both say customer data is never used for training (10). Result retention is stated (24 hours), input retention isn't (5). The notice, FAQ and API reference agree, but we didn't find a DPA in this run (5). A decommissioning policy with notice periods by model type, 3 months for stable and 14 days for preview models (20). Six regional hosts are documented with separate keys and prices. We found no subprocessor list (10). 20+10+5+5+20+10 = 70.
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (72): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service with clear terms, SDKs Apache-2.0 (15). Paid only, so content isn't used to improve products; video retention isn't stated (20 of 30). Deprecations table and a dated routing notice for Omni 1.1 Flash (15 of 20). Data may be processed anywhere Google has facilities on the Gemini API route; no subprocessor list checked (5 of 20). SynthID watermarking is disclosed, and Google names the cases it still handles poorly. 15 + 20 + 15 + 5 = 55.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 45 | Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +25 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 69 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 54 | Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 80 | 50 | Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +30 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 83 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 72 | Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.4 · B** | **55.1 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | Model API |
| Vendor | Alibaba Cloud | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/api/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (Wan 2.1 and 2.2 weights) | Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google Cloud under Google's terms. The google-genai SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-11-05 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-04-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 18k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |

## What the same task costs

| Task | Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Make a 30-second video clip | $1.50 to $8.40 | $0.69 to $6.27 |

## How the scores have moved

### Alibaba Wan (Model Studio)

- +1.2 on 13 November 2026: checklist
- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: checklist
- -0.3 on 8 October 2026: checklist

### Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

- +1.3 on 13 November 2026 (D to C): checklist

## Verdicts

**Alibaba Wan (Model Studio).** Wan 3.0 clips run 2 to 30 seconds at up to 1080p with audio on by default, at published per-second prices, and failed requests aren't billed. Every job is polled, since no callback is documented, and result URLs and task ids expire after 24 hours.

**Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash.** Google's generally available video model makes clips of up to 15 seconds with audio, edits them turn by turn and upscales drafts to 1080p or 4K, from $0.023 a second at 360p to $0.209 at 4K. It is paid only, the guide still describes Omni 1.1, and every quality claim is Google's.

## Before you call either

### Alibaba Wan (Model Studio)

1. Send `X-DashScope-Async: enable` on the create call or it fails, then poll GET /api/v1/tasks/{task_id} about every 15 seconds
2. Copy the video out within 24 hours. The URL and the task id both expire
3. Use the host from your workspace and region. A Singapore key won't work on a Beijing host
4. Don't resubmit a slow job. Poll it. Failed jobs aren't billed, so resubmit only after FAILED
5. Set `audio` false if you don't want sound. It's on by default for Wan 3.0

### Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

1. Call POST /v1beta/interactions with model gemini-omni-1.2-flash and response_format type video; Veo is gone from the Gemini API
2. Set delivery to uri for clips over 4 MB and poll the file until ACTIVE; a later GET returns base64 only
3. Edit with previous_interaction_id and leave store on, or the clip can't be edited in a later turn
4. Set length in the prompt with timecodes such as [0-3s]; there is no duration field
5. Draft at 360p or 720p and upscale only the keepers: 4K costs about nine times 360p

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) or Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash?

Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash's 55.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash leads on maintenance & community.

### Do Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) and Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) and Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash without installing anything?

Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) has a hosted endpoint at https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/api/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash.


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