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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

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

Set a default video model

```json5
{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      videoGenerationModel: {
        primary: "alibaba/wan2.6-t2v",
      },
    },
  },
}
```

Verify the provider is available

```bash
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](/providers/qwen) 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.

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