Wan 4.0 AI pricing:
pay for seconds, not for a gated model
A $9.90 one-time pack includes 360 credits, valid for 12 months. Failed generations return their credits automatically. wan3.0-video · 480P / 720P / 1080P · 2–30s · Wan 3.0 Prime.
Choose a Wan 3.0 plan
Yearly saves about 20%, and the monthly Wan 3.0 credits are the same.
Same monthly credits either way
Or top up without changing plan
Wan 3.0 credits bought once, for a month that ran long. They cost a little more per credit than a plan does — and they last twelve months instead of expiring at the end of the month, which is what the difference buys.
- Small pack
$9.90one-time
360 credits
The same 8 / 16 / 32 credits a second as every plan
≈ 9 clips (at 5s 480P · 2 at 1080P)
Valid 12 months
- Medium pack
$29.90one-time
1,120 credits
The same 8 / 16 / 32 credits a second as every plan
≈ 28 clips (at 5s 480P · 7 at 1080P)
Valid 12 months
- Large pack
$79.90one-time
3,000 credits
The same 8 / 16 / 32 credits a second as every plan
≈ 75 clips (at 5s 480P · 18 at 1080P)
Valid 12 months
Your monthly credits are spent first, then top-up credits — so the ones with a deadline go before the ones without.
Risk reversed
Wan 3.0 pricing with the exits written down
- 7-day refund on your first payment, while those credits are untouched
- Failed generations return their credits automatically.
- Cancel in two clicks. No email, no retention call
Paid generation · 1080P · 30s
The ceiling comes off at the smallest paid plan and never moves again: 1080P, the full thirty seconds, every input mode and Wan 3.0 Prime, all of it at $12.90 a month. From there it is a question of how much you make: 16 clips a month on Starter, 56 on Pro, 156 on Studio — and the credits get cheaper with every step.
Starter and up1080P and thirty seconds
A $9.90 one-time pack includes 360 credits, valid for 12 months. Failed generations return their credits automatically.
10 · 5 · 5 · 1 docReference, document and web-page input
Ten images, five video clips and five audio tracks in one run, or a PDF, a deck or a public URL. Every one of these modes is paid-only, and every one is included at $12.90.
2 or 4 per runTakes, instead of paying twice to re-roll
Two variants of one prompt on Starter, four on Pro and Studio, generated in the same run. You choose a take rather than paying again to find out whether the second one is better.
Every paid planWan 3.0 Prime, the fast tier
The high-speed variant of the same model, available the moment you pay. It costs 1.5× the credits per second — a choice you make per clip, not a plan you have to be on.
No paid tier gates a resolution, a length or an input mode: 480P, 720P and 1080P, 2 to 30 seconds, and every input from a line of text to a web page, on all three plans. The tiers differ in how many seconds you get a month and how many takes come back at once.
What will my clip cost?
Wan 3.0 is billed per second, and the rate doubles at each resolution step. Move the sliders and the number that comes off your balance is worked out exactly — reference seconds included — before you commit.
5s · 720P
This clip: 80 credits
≈ $2.85 on Pro · $0.71 at 480P
Failed run: 0 credits.
Nothing here is an estimate. One function prices this calculator and the button in the Wan 3.0 generator, so a quote here and a quote there can never disagree.
Every length and quality,
in dollars
A finished Wan 3.0 clip, priced. Dollars on the first line, credits on the second. Length is the clip you get back; quality is the resolution you asked for.
Reference-video seconds bill at the output rate and count against the same thirty-second ceiling, so a ten-second output with a five-second reference is charged as fifteen.
- Typical wait for a finished clip
- about 90 seconds
- 30 seconds at 1080P
- longer than that
- Paid generation
- Credits from $9.90
- A run that fails
- 0 credits
- Alibaba Cloud account or API key
- not needed
- Longest clip Wan 3.0 returns
- 30s
Dollar figures are the Pro annual rate. Credits are the same on every plan.
Wan 3.0 pricing here vs
the sites selling "Wan 3.0"
Three columns, because there are three different things being sold. Alibaba sells the model. A number of sites resell something under its name. This site is the third thing: a front end that runs the real model and prints the receipt.
Which model actually runs
- This site
- wan3.0-video, task ID printedOnly here
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Often 2.5 or 2.7
- The official API
- Wan 3.0
1080P and 30 seconds
- This site
- Every paid plan
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Usually sold by tier
- The official API
- Yes
Commercial use
- This site
- Every paid plan, no separate licenceIncluded
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Often the yearly tier only
- The official API
- Per Alibaba’s contract
A failed run
- This site
- Refunded automatically
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Mostly unstated
- The official API
- Not billed
Reference-video seconds
- This site
- Priced in the calculator aboveOnly here
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Not mentioned anywhere
- The official API
- Deep in the docs
Refund
- This site
- 7 days, credits unused
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Rarely stated
- The official API
- None
The discount
- This site
- Yearly is up to 20%, and it is not a countdown
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Permanent "limited time"
- The official API
- None
Per 100 credits
- This site
- $2.02 → $1.60, always downward
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Sometimes rises with volume
- The official API
- Not applicable
Checkout
- This site
- Stripe; the card never touches us
- Sites selling "Wan 3.0"
- Varies
- The official API
- Enterprise invoicing
One thing this table is not doing: comparing our price to Alibaba’s per-second rate. Those are different units. The API sells raw seconds to someone who will write the code, handle the 24-hour link expiry, catch the invalid parameter combinations and build the queue. The middle column and this one sell a finished clip. Comparing the two numbers directly is how people end up surprised in both directions.
Checked by Hao Lin on 25 August 2026 against each site’s own pages. No site is named, because naming them puts their brand on our page for free.
Paying the Wan 3.0 price:
your files, your card
Two things change hands at checkout: your files and your card. Here is who holds each one, for how long, and how to get it back.
Where your work goes
Uploads go to Alibaba Cloud Model Studio to generate,
and to our storage, so the clip outlives Alibaba's 24-hour link.
Your clips are private by default.
A clip only becomes shareable when you press share, and the link can be revoked.
Work is kept for the window on your plan,
then removed. 30 days on Starter, 90 on Pro, 180 on Studio.
Where your money goes
Stripe handles the payment.
Card numbers never reach this site.
Prices are in US dollars.
Nothing is added at checkout — the price shown is the amount charged.
Cancel from the billing page in two clicks.
No email, no retention call.
Full privacy policy · content policy · terms
7-day refund,
and a failed clip never costs credits
Two separate promises. One has a seven-day window and one condition. The other has neither.
How a refund works
First subscription or first top-up pack. Once per account.
You pay
You subscribe, or buy a top-up pack.
Within 7 days
You decide it is not for you.
Credits untouched
The credits from that payment are still unspent.
Money back
No reason needed. In full as account credit, or to the card less the processing fees our processor keeps.
If a clip fails
Failed generations return their credits automatically.
The run fails
It errors, is blocked, or expires at Alibaba after 24 hours.
Credits come back
Automatically. You will see no credits were used on the job.
The one condition
The Wan 3.0 credits from that payment must still be unused. Spend them and the purchase has done its job.
Who
Anyone on a first subscription or first top-up pack
When
Within 7 days of the payment
Condition
Credits from that payment unused
How
One message to the address on the contact page
You get
The full amount as account credit — or the same amount to your card, less the payment-processing fees our processor charged and does not return
Why the difference
A card refund costs us the original fee a second time. Credit does not pass back through the card network, so nothing is deducted. We tell you both figures before anything moves.
After that
Yearly plans: the whole unused months back at any time, pro rata
Monthly plans
Spend credits this month and this month is not refundable. Cancelling stops the next one.
These are the same words as the refund policy and the terms. If you ever find this page more generous than those, this page is the bug.
Five things that change a Wan 3.0 bill
— and three that do not
These are scattered across half a dozen Wan 3.0 API documents written for developers. Collected here because they are the difference between an estimate and a surprise.
These change the price
Five
Length.
Wan 3.0 bills per second of output, rounded up to the whole second.
Resolution.
720P is double 480P; 1080P is double 720P. Same model at every tier.
Reference video seconds.
Its seconds are billed at your output rate. Ten seconds of output with five seconds of reference is fifteen billed seconds. This is the one that surprises people.
Variants.
Four variants cost four times one. There is no bulk discount inside a single request.
Model tier.
The fast tier costs half again as much per second.
These do not
Three
Audio.
On or off, identical price. There is no money to be saved by generating a silent Wan 3.0 clip.
Aspect ratio.
Vertical costs the same as landscape.
Prompt length.
Twenty thousand characters costs the same as twenty words.
One more, because it is the sharpest edge in the category: smart duration, where the model picks the length, cannot be quoted before it runs. Services that offer it either reserve the full thirty seconds up front or bill you afterwards. We ask for an explicit length instead, so the number on the button is the number you pay.
The rate itself, if you want to do your own arithmetic: 8 credits a second at 480P, 16 at 720P, 32 at 1080P, on every plan and every tier of account. One rate table, published, with no plan-by-plan multiplier hidden behind it — which is the part most of this category will not put in writing.
The number that matters
is cost per usable clip
A per-second rate describes one Wan 3.0 generation. Nobody ships one generation. The clip you publish is the third or fourth attempt, and whether the first three cost you anything is the entire question.
| Attempts | Charge-per-attempt services | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Attempts to get a keeper | 3–5, same as anyone | 3–5, same as anyone |
| Attempts that failed outright | Still charged | Refunded automatically |
| Attempts that generated but missed | Charged | Charged — fair enough, they generated |
| What that does to the real price | Multiplies it | Leaves it where the rate card says |
We are not claiming better output per attempt — it is the same Wan 3.0 model everyone else is calling. The difference is only in what happens when the model returns nothing, and that turns out to be where a lot of the money goes.
Wan 3.0 pricing questions
What a Wan 3.0 second costs, what a credit buys, what a failed run refunds, and what happens to credits you have not spent.
How much does a 30-second Wan 3.0 video cost?
Is there a free Wan 3.0 trial?
Do Wan 3.0 credits roll over?
What is the difference between the plans?
Monthly or yearly?
Am I charged when a Wan 3.0 generation fails?
Can I cancel?
Does turning audio off make Wan 3.0 cheaper?
Why did my reference-video clip cost more than I expected?
What am I paying for on top of the model itself?
Does a longer prompt cost more?
Why is Wan 3.0 more expensive at 1080P than some other models?
Last verified 26 August 2026
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