# Wan 2.6 (I2V)

> Wan 2.6 (I2V) is available on Artifio.ai — a unified AI workspace with a single pay-as-you-go wallet.

- Canonical page: https://artifio.ai/models/wan-2-6-image-to-video
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/wan-2-6-image-to-video
- Modality: image to video
- Model brand: Wan
- Pricing: from about $0.350 per generation (exact cost shown in the workspace before you confirm; varies with selected options)
- Typical generation time: ~800s (catalogue estimate)
- Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models

## About Wan 2.6 (I2V)

Wan 2.6 (I2V) is the image-to-video model in Alibaba's Wan 2.6 series, announced on December 16, 2025 as one of five upgraded models in the release. It animates a still image into a video clip directed by a text prompt, and like the rest of the 2.6 generation it produces synchronized audio in the same pass. Alibaba describes the series as gaining better instruction following, stronger audio-visual synchronization, and multi-shot storytelling that holds visual consistency across cuts.

The model is served through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio and the Wan website; no open weights exist for the 2.6 generation, which departs from the openly published Wan 2.1 and 2.2 lineage. Artifio offers it in one workspace beside 100+ other models, paid per generation from a single wallet.

## Features

- Animates a source image into 720p or 1080p video at 30 fps, with generated audio.
- Durations run from 2 to 15 seconds in one-second steps on the international endpoint; the global endpoint offers 5, 10, or 15 seconds.
- Text prompts direct motion, dialogue, and sound on top of the input image, with the 2.6 series' improved instruction-following precision.
- Inherits the series' multi-shot storytelling, so a single image can seed a sequence with consistent characters.
- A separate Flash tier of the same mode exists for faster, lower-cost runs.

## What people use it for

- Bringing product photography to life for short-form ads.
- Turning a portrait into a speaking or reacting scene with matching audio.
- Animating concept art or illustration into establishing shots.
- Reusing an existing photo library as raw material for social video.

## Reported strengths

- Audio arrives with the video, so a photo can become a finished clip with sound in one generation.
- The 15-second ceiling is triple what the open Wan 2.1 and 2.2 models offered.
- 1080p and 30 fps apply across the full duration range.

## Reported limitations

- Resolution stops at 1080p, with no 4K path.
- On the Artificial Analysis image-to-video arena it has fallen well behind: as of July 2026 it holds an Elo of 900 at rank 24, while Wan 2.7 scores 1098 at rank 4.
- No open weights have been published for Wan 2.6; the Wan GitHub organization's newest open release remains Wan 2.2.

## Sources

1. Alibaba unveils Wan2.6 series enabling everyone to star in videos (Alibaba Cloud): https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-unveils-wan2-6-series-enabling-everyone-to-star-in-videos_602742
2. Video generation, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio documentation (Alibaba Cloud): https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/use-video-generation
3. Image to video leaderboard (Artificial Analysis): https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/image-to-video
4. Wan2.2: open and advanced large-scale video generative models (GitHub (Wan-Video)): https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2

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