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HunyuanVideo

Tencent's 13B open-weights video foundation model — the first major open-source video model, text-to-video focused

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About

HunyuanVideo is Tencent's open-weights video foundation model, released December 2024 with over 13 billion parameters — the largest open-source video model at launch and the first major open release to ship both inference code and weights. It focuses on text-to-video generation (image-to-video arrived with the later 1.5), producing 5-second 720p clips at 24fps with emphasis on cinematic quality, motion dynamics, and text-video alignment.

Benchmarks (all provider-reported — Tencent-run professional human evaluation, not independent):

  • Motion quality: 64.5% vs Runway Gen-3's 48.3% (1,500+ prompts, 60 professional evaluators — provider-reported)
  • Claimed to outperform Runway Gen-3, Luma 1.6, and three top Chinese video models on visual quality, motion diversity, text-video alignment, and stability (provider-reported human eval)

No standardized automated benchmark (e.g. VBench) scores were published by the provider or found independently; the evidence base is Tencent's own human-evaluation program described in the technical report (arXiv 2412.03603).

Note: HunyuanVideo-1.5 (Nov 2025, tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5) unifies text-to-video and image-to-video and is Tencent's current line; this entry covers the original 1.0 release.

Specs

Context window

Text prompt → 5s video at 720p, 24fps (provider-claimed); full local inference needs ~60–80GB VRAM (third-party reported)

Pricing

Weights free under Tencent Hunyuan Community License (custom, commercial terms restricted). Hosted API via Tencent Cloud TokenHub: third-party reporting cites ~1.5 CNY per successful 5-second job (from Tencent's pricing docs, not directly verified by me). Third-party inference (fal.ai) reported ~$0.45/s. Provider-claimed/unverified for hosted pricing.

Free quota

Weights free to download; Tencent Cloud API free-credit offers reported but not verified

API access

Self-host via Hugging Face weights (tencent/HunyuanVideo) + GitHub inference code; hosted via Tencent Cloud Hunyuan API and third-party inference (fal.ai, Replicate)

Weights

Open weights

Released

December 3, 2024

Benchmarks

Professional human evaluation (provider-reported): 64.5% motion quality vs Runway Gen-3 48.3% (1,500+ prompts, 60 evaluators). No independent or standardized automated benchmark scores found.

Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.

Use cases

text-to-videocinematic short clipsadvertising creativeopen video researchmotion reference

Trust score — 6/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 6/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: HF: tencent/HunyuanVideo; HF downloads 1,884 (peer-normalized); released 679 days ago. Manual review: RED FLAG: HunyuanVideo-1.5 (Nov 2025) supersedes it; human-eval vs Runway Gen-3 provider-reported. License: custom Tencent Hunyuan Community License (not OSI; territory exclusions + MAU cap per secondary reporting).

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
5.4/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
5.0/10
Openness · license + docs
5.8/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
8.0/10
  • · HF: tencent/HunyuanVideo
  • · HF downloads 1,884 (peer-normalized)
  • · released 679 days ago
  • · manual review: RED FLAG: HunyuanVideo-1.5 (Nov 2025) supersedes it; human-eval vs Runway Gen-3 provider-reported

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