Alternatives to HunyuanVideo

Tencent's large text-to-video generation model, with weights and inference code you run yourself. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as HunyuanVideo.

  • Wan 2.2

    Open, advanced large-scale video generation model for local use.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinuxCommand line

    Wan 2.2 is Apache-2.0 licensed with variants sized to available GPU memory and runs on Windows and Linux, though it has no official end-user GUI.

  • Wan2GP

    A local AI video generator built to run open video and image models on low-memory GPUs.

    FreeProprietaryWindowsLinux

    Wan2GP runs several open video models from one app on low-memory consumer GPUs and adds image models and plugins, though generation is slow on modest hardware.

  • LTX-2

    Open local video model that generates synchronized audio and video.

    FreeProprietaryWindowsLinuxCommand line

    LTX-2 generates synchronized audio and video together, runs on Windows and Linux and includes an official LoRA trainer, but its licence is also non-standard.

  • CogVideoX

    Open text-to-video and image-to-video generation models with inference and fine-tuning code.

    FreeProprietaryLinuxCommand line

    CogVideoX adds image-to-video alongside text-to-video with fine-tuning code and online demos, but it still needs a powerful GPU and has its own weight licence.

  • Mochi 1 (Genmo)

    Open state-of-the-art video generation model from research lab Genmo.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinuxCommand line

    Mochi 1 has Apache-2.0 open weights and runs on consumer GPUs through ComfyUI integration, but its repository shows no activity since late 2025.

  • Open-Sora

    An open-source video generation project releasing models, training code and tools for text-to-video.

    FreeProprietaryLinuxCommand line

    Open-Sora publishes models, training code and a Gradio interface for text-to-video, but it needs powerful GPUs and machine learning experience to set up.

  • FramePack

    Local image-to-video generator that predicts frames progressively so it runs on consumer GPUs.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    FramePack is Apache-2.0 and turns a still image into video on a gaming GPU on Windows or Linux, but it does image-to-video rather than text-to-video.

Also worth comparing

These listings name HunyuanVideo as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Kling AI

    An AI studio for generating images and videos from text, images and references.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    HunyuanVideo publishes weights and inference code so you run text-to-video on your own GPU without per-video fees, under a custom non-OSI licence.

  • Vidu

    An AI video generator that makes clips from text prompts, images and reference material.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    HunyuanVideo is Tencent's text-to-video model run locally on a high-end GPU with no per-video fees, under a custom licence and Python setup.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.