Models
Alibaba
Wan 2.6
Use Cases

Alibaba

Wan 2.6

AI Image & Video Model

Mode:

All Text to Image Image Edit Text to Video Image to Video Video to Video

Image Video Featured #2 Image-to-Image #2 Image-to-Image

Alibaba's multimodal generation model from the Wan AI suite, supporting text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video with audio, and text-to-image, in both Chinese and English

What Wan 2.6 is good at

Rankings based on human votes in the Lumenfall Arena, where real users pick their favorite without knowing which model made which image. Excels at #1 Adding & Editing Objects (Image Editing), #2 Aesthetics (Image Editing), #2 Backgrounds & Scenes (Image Editing), #3 People & Poses (Image Editing), #7 Photorealism (Image Editing), #9 Lighting, Shadows & Materials (Image Editing), #13 Preservation (Image Editing), #12 Face & Identity (Image Editing), #11 Artistic Restyling (Image Editing), and #11 Creativity (Image Editing) , placing in the top 37% of all competing models.

Wan 2.6 Strengths

Wan 2.6 outperforms most competing models here

Adding & Editing Objects

Image Editing

Ranked #1 of 29 models · 67.4% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Man and Car in California Outfit Transfer Challenge

Aesthetics

Image Editing

Ranked #2 of 33 models · 62.3% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Before After

Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#9 FLUX.2 [max] ranks lower

Before After

#25 FLUX.2 [dev... ranks lower

Before After

#33 HiDream E1 ranks lower

Ranked using Golden Hour Stroll Man and Car in California Studio Ghibli Anime Style

Backgrounds & Scenes

Image Editing

Ranked #2 of 26 models · 61.9% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Man and Car in California

People & Poses

Image Editing

Ranked #3 of 27 models · 70.3% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Wan 2.6 — People & Poses (edited)

Before After

Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#7 FLUX.2 [kle... ranks lower

Before After

#21 FLUX.2 [dev... ranks lower

Before After

#27 HiDream E1 ranks lower

Ranked using Golden Hour Stroll Pose & Character Mashup

Photorealism

Image Editing

Ranked #7 of 36 models · 49.4% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Before After

Bald man challenge

Before After

Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#10 Qwen Image ... ranks lower

Before After

#28 Seedream 4.0 ranks lower

Before After

#36 HiDream E1 ranks lower

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#10 Qwen Image ... ranks lower

Before After

#28 Seedream 4.0 ranks lower

Before After

#36 HiDream E1 ranks lower

Ranked using Bald man challenge Golden Hour Stroll Man and Car in California Outfit Transfer Challenge

Lighting, Shadows & Materials

Image Editing

Ranked #9 of 36 models · 53.5% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Before After

Bald man challenge

Before After

Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#10 Grok Imagin... ranks lower

Before After

#28 FLUX.1 Kont... ranks lower

Before After

#36 HiDream E1 ranks lower

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#10 Grok Imagin... ranks lower

Before After

#28 FLUX.1 Kont... ranks lower

Before After

#36 HiDream E1 ranks lower

Ranked using Bald man challenge Golden Hour Stroll Man and Car in California Outfit Transfer Challenge Pose & Character Mashup

Preservation

Image Editing

Ranked #13 of 37 models · 47.2% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Before After

Bald man challenge

Before After

Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#10 Seedream 5.... ranks higher

Before After

#28 Seedream 4.0 ranks lower

Before After

#37 HiDream E1 ranks lower

Ranked using Bald man challenge Golden Hour Stroll Man and Car in California Outfit Transfer Challenge Over-the-top cartoon carica... Pose & Character Mashup +1 more

Face & Identity

Image Editing

Ranked #12 of 32 models · 26.6% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Before After

Bald man challenge

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana 2 ranks higher

Before After

#9 FLUX.2 [max] ranks higher

Before After

#25 FLUX.2 [dev... ranks lower

Before After

#32 Bria FIBO ranks lower

Ranked using Bald man challenge Over-the-top cartoon carica...

Artistic Restyling

Image Editing

Ranked #11 of 28 models · 38.3% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Over-the-top cartoon carica... Studio Ghibli Anime Style

Creativity

Image Editing

Ranked #11 of 28 models · 38.3% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Over-the-top cartoon carica... Studio Ghibli Anime Style

Other categories

Wan 2.6 competes but doesn't rank as highly

Prompt Adherence

Image Editing

Ranked #18 of 29 models · 42.4% win rate Leaderboard

Wan 2.6

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Outfit Transfer Challenge Over-the-top cartoon carica... Pose & Character Mashup