Wan
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 18, 2025first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“or even older WAN could easily handle this”
“There are open-source alternatives:”
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“I recently used WAN to generate a looping clip of clouds moving quickly”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026) 1 mention
- Krea 2 Technical Report 1 mention
- Cut Off: why access to frontier AI will soon be scarce and selective 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) 1 mention
- OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform 1 mention
- BleuNova – Ethical self-hosted AI agent (privacy-first) 1 mention
Also written as WAN, Wan, Wan 2.1, Wan2.1. Data: wan.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“ComfyUI, Flux, Wan 2.1, Stable Diffusion”
“Wan2.1 safetensors as the VAE”
“or even older WAN could easily handle this”
“Vision and video diffusion models: Flux, Wan 2.1, Stable Diffusion”
“There are open-source alternatives:”
“video gen via Wan 2.2”
“This generation was run on an RTX 3060 (12 GB VRAM)”
“WAN is only behind Google's Veo in image-to-video rankings”
“I recently used WAN to generate a looping clip of clouds moving quickly”