CogVideoX

Zhipu AI
class A live

Open-weights text/image-to-video model from Zhipu AI; 2b is Apache-2.0, 5b uses custom licence; also hosted via the Qingying/z.ai API.

Layer 1 — factual axes

API & price cloud + self-host · hosted $0.2/video (z.ai) official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Max output 10s · 1360×768 (16fps, CogVideoX1.5-5B) official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Native audio no (open weights video-only) official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Weights split — 2b: Apache-2.0; 5b: custom CogVideoX License official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Free tier open self-host + free Qingying web tier official source ↗ 2026-07-04

Layer 2 — output quality

80.3 / 100
Eligible for Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights

Open-weights text/image-to-video model from Zhipu AI; 2b is Apache-2.0, 5b uses custom licence; also hosted via the Qingying/z.ai API.

Data as of 2026-07-04 · verified 2026-07-04. One ruler for all tools. How we measure ↗