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Models / Providers

Alibaba Model Studio

Genesis ships a bundled alibaba video-generation provider for Wan models on Alibaba Model Studio / DashScope.

  • Provider: alibaba
  • Preferred auth: MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY
  • Also accepted: DASHSCOPE_API_KEY, QWEN_API_KEY
  • API: DashScope / Model Studio async video generation

Getting started

Set an API key

genesis onboard --auth-choice qwen-standard-api-key

Set a default video model

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      videoGenerationModel: {
        primary: "alibaba/wan2.6-t2v",
      },
    },
  },
}

Verify the provider is available

genesis models list --provider alibaba

Any of the accepted auth keys (MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY, DASHSCOPE_API_KEY, QWEN_API_KEY) will work. The qwen-standard-api-key onboarding choice configures the shared DashScope credential.

Built-in Wan models

The bundled alibaba provider currently registers:

Model ref Mode
alibaba/wan2.6-t2v Text-to-video
alibaba/wan2.6-i2v Image-to-video
alibaba/wan2.6-r2v Reference-to-video
alibaba/wan2.6-r2v-flash Reference-to-video (fast)
alibaba/wan2.7-r2v Reference-to-video

Current limits

Parameter Limit
Output videos Up to 1 per request
Input images Up to 1
Input videos Up to 4
Duration Up to 10 seconds
Supported controls size, aspectRatio, resolution, audio, watermark
Reference image/video Remote http(s) URLs only

Reference image/video mode currently requires remote http(s) URLs. Local file paths are not supported for reference inputs.

Advanced configuration

Relationship to Qwen

The bundled qwen provider also uses Alibaba-hosted DashScope endpoints for Wan video generation. Use:

  • qwen/... when you want the canonical Qwen provider surface
  • alibaba/... when you want the direct vendor-owned Wan video surface

See the Qwen provider docs for more detail.

Auth key priority

Genesis checks for auth keys in this order:

  1. MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY (preferred)
  2. DASHSCOPE_API_KEY
  3. QWEN_API_KEY

Any of these will authenticate the alibaba provider.