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HunyuanVideo-1.5

Name: HunyuanVideo-1.5
Rating: 6

Tencent's updated open video model — text-to-video and image-to-video under a custom license.

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About

HunyuanVideo-1.5 (December 2025) is Tencent's follow-up to the original HunyuanVideo (already in the catalog): text-to-video and image-to-video generation with improved motion quality and prompt adherence.

Licensing: the Hugging Face checkpoint carries a custom Tencent license tag ("other") — not OSI open source. Review the terms before commercial use; Tencent's video model licenses have historically restricted commercial deployment. Direct adoption is modest (1.3k HF downloads) — the community around Tencent's video models concentrates on GitHub and Chinese platforms. A solid open-weights option for experimentation, but the license and modest momentum cap its product readiness.

Specs

Context window

N/A (text/image-to-video)

Pricing

Free to download; commercial terms governed by Tencent's custom license — review before product use.

Free quota

Free — download and run the weights yourself; verify the checkpoint's license.

API access

Self-hosted (official inference code on GitHub; Hugging Face checkpoints).

Weights

Open weights

Released

December 1, 2025

Benchmarks

Provider-claimed (Tencent): improved quality over HunyuanVideo 1.0 — treat as provider-claimed. Independent benchmarks are limited.

Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.

Use cases

videotext-to-videoimage-to-videofilmmakingresearch

Trust score — 6/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). A credible open video model from a major lab with a very recent release (Dec 2025). Docked four points: (1) custom Tencent license — not open source, commercial terms unclear; (2) small adoption footprint (1.3k HF downloads); (3) quality claims are provider-reported only; (4) superseded in mindshare by LTX-2 and HunyuanImage-3.0. Fine for experimentation; verify licensing before anything commercial.

How the trust score is built

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Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers: 5.1/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load: 7.0/10
Openness · license + docs: 4.6/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check: 6.0/10

· HF downloads 1,323 (peer-normalized)
· released 316 days ago
· manual review: credible open model; small adoption; superseded in mindshare by LTX-2; license: custom Tencent license — not OSI; commercial terms unclear