HunyuanVideo
by Tencent-Hunyuan
HunyuanVideo is a large open video generation model from Tencent, with code and pre-trained weights for turning text prompts into video. It is meant for people who want to run or build on a text-to-video model on their own hardware.
- Stars
- 12.7k
- Licence
- Unclear
- Runs on
- A gpu machine, with a GPU
- Setup
- Technical
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 703 days
What you can do with it
- Generate short videos from written text prompts using the released model weights
- Run it through ComfyUI or Diffusers as part of an existing image and video workflow
- Use the Gradio web demo or multi-GPU inference code to test and speed up generation
Make money with it
A freelancer could sell short AI-generated video clips or social media content packages to small businesses that cannot afford a video production team.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Produce short promotional clips, social media videos or product visuals without paying per-clip fees to a hosted video service
- Offer video generation as part of a creative service for clients, using your own hardware to keep running costs predictable
Can you use it commercially?
No standard licence detected. Read the licence before using it commercially.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
You install the Python dependencies, download the model weights from Hugging Face, and run the inference scripts, with ComfyUI and Diffusers as alternative routes.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Licence is not clearly stated (NOASSERTION), so check the Tencent Hunyuan licence terms before commercial use, as they may restrict some regions or uses
- Needs a powerful GPU with a lot of memory
- Newer successor models exist (HunyuanVideo-1.5), so this repository may no longer be the best option
Who's talking about it
Checked 01 Nov 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
