Wan 3.0 Prime API

Introduction

Wan 3.0 Prime Text to video generates a 2 to 30 second clip with sound from a written prompt alone. Its fields match Wan 3.0 Text to video exactly: prompt is required, while duration_seconds, resolution (480p, 720p or 1080p, default 720p), aspect_ratio (default 16:9), generate_audio, enable_prompt_expansion and seed are optional. An existing Wan 3.0 request therefore works here with only the model name changed. Alibaba positions Prime as the high-speed version of Wan 3.0 with the same capabilities.

Choose a Wan 3.0 Prime mode by starting material

Key features

A drop-in request with faster turnaround

Because the schema, defaults and enums are identical, moving a job between Wan 3.0 and Prime is a one-word change. Holding the seed on both models lets you compare the two files directly.

Long takes you can check for continuity

The lighthouse example runs 10 seconds at 720p with audio: a revolving beam sweeps across two people every few seconds and leaves them in the dark between passes, with a foghorn and the sea on the soundtrack. A periodic subject is an honest test of whether a long clip stays continuous or quietly resets.

Request parameters

Pricing

Prices are in credits, the same credits you use on the website (1 credit = $0.01). The hold is taken when the task is accepted and settled to the actual charge when it finishes; failed tasks are refunded.

Each task is rounded up to whole credits, so one run at the lowest tier costs 46 credits for a 5-second clip ($0.46).

For an exact number before you run, send the same body to POST /jobs/quote.

Use cases

Surreal set pieces that must stay consistent

The salt-flat example asks for a mirror-flat flood where sky and ground meet with no visible horizon, a woman walking toward the camera while her reflection walks upside down beneath her, and rings spreading across the water when she spins. The frame starts locked and only pushes in afterwards, which isolates the reflection as the thing to review.

Performance with the voice in the same pass

The recording-booth example has a singer holding a long low note at a ribbon microphone, pulling one ear cup off and smiling through the control-room glass, with a rack focus from the microphone mesh to her face written into the prompt. The voice is generated in the same pass as the picture, so both come back in one file.

Prompt guide & pro tips

Write camera changes as events

When the camera does something mid-shot, write it as an event in sequence: the booth prompt says "rack focus from the microphone mesh to her face", and the salt-flat prompt says "wide static frame that then pushes slowly in". One camera instruction per beat keeps the result easy to review.

Give longer clips a rhythm

For clips longer than 5 seconds, give the render something that repeats or progresses — a beam every few seconds, a tide, a room filling up — so continuity can be judged. Durations are any whole number from 2 to 30, or -1 to let the model choose; settle the look at 5 seconds first.

Compare Prime and Wan 3.0 with the seed held

Send one body to both models with the same seed, then change one field at a time. A fixed seed makes the comparison fair but does not guarantee identical frames. Leave enable_prompt_expansion at its default false for detailed prompts and turn it on only for a thin two-line idea.

API quick start

Call the Wan 3.0 Prime API in three steps

1. Create an API key. Sign in to PopNow and create a key in the API console. Keys start with sk-popnow- and use the same credits as the website.
2. Send the request. POST /jobs/createTask with model alibaba/wan-3.0-prime/text-to-video and an input object that follows the parameter table. The response returns a task ID straight away.
3. Get the result. Poll GET /jobs/recordInfo with the task ID, or pass a callBackUrl and we post the result to it. Download the output links when the task succeeds.

# 1. Create the task. Keep the Idempotency-Key if you retry after a network error.
export IDEMPOTENCY_KEY="$(uuidgen)"
curl -X POST https://api.popnow.ai/api/v1/jobs/createTask \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POPNOW_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "alibaba/wan-3.0-prime/text-to-video",
  "input": {
    "prompt": "A slow aerial shot drifting over a misty pine forest at sunrise",
    "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
    "resolution": "720p",
    "duration_seconds": 5
  }
}'

# 2. Copy data.taskId from the response, then poll until state is succeeded, failed, canceled or expired.
TASK_ID="TASK_ID_FROM_RESPONSE"
curl "https://api.popnow.ai/api/v1/jobs/recordInfo?taskId=$TASK_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POPNOW_API_KEY"

Replace the prompt and any links with your own. The API tab has the response, polling and callback reference.

Wan 3.0 Prime API questions

All Wan models

Plain Wan 3.0 makes the same clips for less when you can wait a little longer.

• Wan 3.0 APIUp to 30-second clips with synced audioFrom 34 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 3.0 Prime APIQuicker Wan 3.0 renders, up to 30 seconds with audioFrom 46 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 3.0 Pro Prime APIQuicker Wan 3.0 Pro with 2K and 4K outputFrom 176 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 3.0 Pro APIWan 3.0 at 1080p, 2K or 4K, up to 30 secondsFrom 108 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 2.7 Pro APILarge 4K canvases and nine-image compositesFrom 12 credits per image
• Wan 2.7 APIThinks through the composition, then draws up to four imagesFrom 5 credits per image
• Wan 2.6 Flash APIQuick multi-shot clips from a single imageFrom 17 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 2.6 APIMulti-shot sequences with sound at up to 1080pFrom 49 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 2.5 API1080p clips with sound that can follow your own audioFrom 34 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 2.2 Animate APIDrive a character photo with a reference videoFrom 7.95 credits per second
• Wan 2.2 LoRA APIWan 2.2 video with your LoRAs on either expert passFrom 18 credits for a 5-second clip
• Wan 2.2 APISimple five-second clips at 480p or 720pFrom 36 credits per run
• Wan 2.2 5B LoRA APILight 720p Wan 2.2 clips that load your own LoRAsFrom 18 credits per run
• Wan 2.2 Image LoRA APIWan 2.2 stills with up to nine LoRAs across three slotsFrom 5 credits per image
• Wan 2.1 LoRA APIWan 2.1 video and edits with your own LoRAs, camera moves includedFrom 36 credits per run
• Wan 2.1 Image LoRA APIPhotoreal Wan 2.1 stills and restyles with your LoRAsFrom 5 credits per image

Other video APIs

• MiniMax H3 APIExpressive clips with audio, up to 2KFrom 28 credits for a 5-second clip
• Seedance 2.5 APIByteDance's newest: 30-second clips with native audioFrom 56 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling 3.0 API4K clips, multi-shot cuts and motion controlFrom 51 credits for a 5-second clip
• Vidu Q4 Preview APIUp to 4K clips with sound and spoken dialogueFrom 34 credits for a 5-second clip
• Kling O3 APIKling’s unified model: create, animate, reference and edit up to 4KFrom 51 credits for a 5-second clip
• MiniMax H3 Max APIFast clips with ambience, effects and musicFrom 38 credits for a 5-second clip

More about Wan 3.0 Prime

Try it

Wan 3.0 Prime AI Video Generator onlineCreate videos with Wan 3.0 Prime in PopNow

Docs

Wan 3.0 Prime model ID and input schema in the API docsPopNow API quickstart: your first request in five minutesImage to video guide for the PopNow APIWebhooks: get Wan 3.0 Prime results without polling