Alibaba's Wan Ships a CLI So AI Agents Can Generate Videos Autonomously
Alibaba's Wan platform launches a CLI that lets AI agents generate images and videos programmatically, with credits synced to your account
- Wan CLI launched: Alibaba's Wan platform now has a first-party CLI letting AI agents call image and video generation directly.
- One-command install: Log into create.wan.video, copy the CLI command from the dashboard, paste into your agent.
- Credit sync: All CLI usage draws from your existing Wan account balance — no separate billing.
- Capabilities: Text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, video-extend, and image editing at 720p/1080p with synced audio.
- Pricing: Freemium web plans from $5/month; raw API via DashScope at ~$0.086/sec (720p) and ~$0.143/sec (1080p).
- Open-source skills: The Wan-skills repo provides Python scripts for async task submission, polling, and OSS upload for deeper agent integration.
Alibaba's Wan just shipped a CLI that turns its AI video and image generation platform into a native tool for AI agents. Instead of opening a browser, you paste one install command into your agent and it can generate images and videos on demand, all billed against the same credit balance you already have on the platform.
What changed
Until now, Wan was primarily a web platform. You'd log in, prompt, wait, download. The new CLI bridges that workflow into agentic pipelines. The Wan-skills repo, maintained by the Wan-Video team, is a suite of skills designed for AI agents, empowering them with generative capabilities through API calls. The CLI announced today is the official, first-party version of that idea, built directly into the create.wan.video platform.
The install flow is deliberately minimal: log in to the platform, find the CLI section in the bottom-left corner, copy the command, and paste it into your agent. Credits consumed through the CLI are fully synced with your existing Wan account, so there's no separate billing to manage.
What Wan actually does
Wan is an AI creative platform developed by Alibaba's Tongyi Lab that generates high-fidelity videos and images from text prompts, images, audio clips, and reference videos. The platform supports text-to-video, image-to-video, speech-to-video, and reference-to-video generation with native audio synchronization.