- API & price
- self-host only official
- Max output
- 6s (88 frames @15fps) · 720p official
- Native audio
- no official
- Weights
- open · Apache-2.0 official
- Free tier
- open self-host official
Quality no independent measure
Best freeOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04
Video · segment
Open-weights
Open model licence — self-hostable.
No independent measure ranks this whole set, so no crown. Shortlist ordered by Weights; the basis is stated, not hidden.
- API & price
- cloud playground + self-host official
- Max output
- 5.4s · 480p (30fps) official
- Native audio
- no official
- Weights
- open · Apache-2.0 official
- Free tier
- open self-host + free hosted playground official
Quality no independent measure
Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04
- API & price
- self-host only official
- Max output
- 768px · ~5s official
- Native audio
- no official
- Weights
- open · Apache-2.0 official
- Free tier
- open self-host (free Gradio demo on HF) official
Quality no independent measure
Best freeOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04
- API & price
- cloud + self-host official
- Max output
- 5s · 720p (24fps, TI2V-5B on one 24GB GPU) official
- Native audio
- no official
- Weights
- open · Apache-2.0 official
- Free tier
- open self-host official
Quality no independent measure
Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04
- API & price
- cloud + self-host · fal.ai $0.04-0.24/s secondary
- Max output
- ~10s · up to 4K (50fps) official
- Native audio
- yes (LTX-2/2.3; older 0.9.x had none) official
- Weights
- open · custom (Lightricks community licence; free commercial under $10M ARR) official
- Free tier
- open self-host (free commercial under $10M ARR) official
Quality 974Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video Arena (LTX-2.3 Fast) ↗
Best freeBest for APIOpen-weightsNative audio ✓ 2026-07-04
- API & price
- third-party cloud + self-host · fal.ai $0.4/video secondary
- Max output
- 5s · 720p (129 frames) official
- Native audio
- no official
- Weights
- open · custom (Tencent Hunyuan Community License; excludes EU/UK/KR) official
- Free tier
- open self-host (weights free; no vendor free hosted tier) official
Quality 82.7VBench (third-party compilation) ↗
Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04
- API & price
- self-host only official
- Max output
- 10s · 768p (24fps) official
- Native audio
- no official
- Weights
- open · MIT official
- Free tier
- open self-host official
Quality no independent measure
Best freeOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04
- API & price
- self-host only official
- Max output
- 204 frames (~8s) · 544×992 official
- Native audio
- no official
- Weights
- open · MIT official
- Free tier
- open self-host (free demo at yuewen.cn) official
Quality no independent measure
Best freeOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04
- API & price
- cloud + self-host · hosted $0.2/video (z.ai) official
- Max output
- 10s · 1360×768 (16fps, CogVideoX1.5-5B) official
- Native audio
- no (open weights video-only) official
- Weights
- split — 2b: Apache-2.0; 5b: custom CogVideoX License official
- Free tier
- open self-host + free Qingying web tier official
Quality 80.3VBench (secondary compilation) ↗
Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights ✓ 2026-07-04