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 #6 Photorealism (Image Editing) , placing in the top 25% of all competing models.

Wan 2.6 Strengths

Wan 2.6 outperforms most competing models here

Photorealism

Image Editing
Ranked #6 of 21 models · 49.2% win rate Leaderboard
Wan 2.6
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Bald man challenge
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Golden Hour Stroll
Same prompt, other models
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#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher
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#16 Seedream 4.0 ranks lower
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#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher
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#16 Seedream 4.0 ranks lower

Other categories

Wan 2.6 competes but doesn't rank as highly

Portrait

Image Editing
Ranked #11 of 15 models · 24.5% win rate Leaderboard
Wan 2.6
Wan 2.6 — Portrait (edited)
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Bald man challenge
Same prompt, other models
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#1 Nano Banana 2 ranks higher
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#4 Seedream 5.... ranks higher
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#12 FLUX.2 [pro] ranks lower
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#15 Z-Image Turbo ranks lower

Anime

Image Editing
Ranked #11 of 14 models · 38.7% win rate Leaderboard
Wan 2.6
Same prompt, other models