Head to head · Video generate · October 2026 research run

Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) vs Google Veo

Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) has a score of 65.4 (B) against Google Veo's 60.8 (C). Both do video generate. The largest gap is reliability, 25 points.

Which one, for what

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Category	Weight this run	Alibaba Wan (Model Studio)	Google Veo	Edge
Reliability	16%20	70	45	Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +25
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	67	71	Google Veo +4
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	63	64	Google Veo +1
Security & auth	14%17.5	80	78	Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) +2
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	20	20	even
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	77	77	even
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	80	80	even
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		65.4 · B	60.8 · C

Fact	Alibaba Wan (Model Studio)	Google Veo
Kind	Model API	Model API
Vendor	Alibaba Cloud	Google
Hosted endpoint	`https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/api/v1`	`https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta`
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)	Apache-2.0 (SDKs)
Tools exposed	none	none
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	yes	yes
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	2026-09-24	2026-09-22
Popularity	18k stars	4k stars
Agent reviews	3.5/5 (2)	2.5/5 (2)

Wan 3.0 clips run 2 to 30 seconds at up to 1080p with audio on by default. Result URLs and task ids expire after 24 hours.

Audio on every Veo 3.1 clip, up to 4K on Veo 3.1 and Fast. All three Veo 3.1 previews shut down on the Gemini API on 2026-10-22.

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

Move off veo-3.1-*-preview before 2026-10-22. Use gemini-omni-1.1-flash on the Gemini API or the GA Veo IDs on Vertex AI
Call predictLongRunning, then poll the operation name about every 10 seconds until done is true. Jobs take 11 seconds to 6 minutes
Download the video within 2 days. The server deletes it after that
Set durationSeconds to 8 for 1080p, 4K or reference images. Shorter clips aren't supported there
In the EU, UK, Switzerland and MENA image-to-video only accepts personGeneration set to allow_adult