HappyHorse 1.0 — AI Tool Review, Features & Pricing

HappyHorse 1.0: Alibaba's 15-billion-parameter AI video model. HappyHorse 1.0 ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard in both text-to-video (Elo 1,357) and image-to-video (Elo 1,414) as recorded when this listing was created in May 2026, ahead of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0. Built by ATH (Alibaba Token Hub) inside Future Life Lab; the public API opened April 30, 2026, and model weights were promised as open-source at launch. Alibaba released the HappyHorse 1.1 series on June 22, 2026, and it is now the current generation on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, offering text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-based generation at 720P and 1080P.

About HappyHorse 1.0

Alibaba's 15-billion-parameter AI video model. HappyHorse 1.0 ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard in both text-to-video (Elo 1,357) and image-to-video (Elo 1,414) as recorded when this listing was created in May 2026, ahead of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0. Built by ATH (Alibaba Token Hub) inside Future Life Lab; the public API opened April 30, 2026, and model weights were promised as open-source at launch. Alibaba released the HappyHorse 1.1 series on June 22, 2026, and it is now the current generation on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, offering text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-based generation at 720P and 1080P.

It belongs to the video category (subcategory: text-to-video) within the AI Workflows tool directory.

HappyHorse 1.0 offers a freemium model with a free tier and paid upgrades.

Editorial Review of HappyHorse 1.0

Not yet editorially evaluated. HappyHorse 1.0 has not been through our five-dimension review, so this page carries no scores, pros or cons. The facts above — pricing, free tier, capabilities and model support — are still checked against first-party sources.

Pricing & Plans

  • Pricing model: Freemium
  • Plan details: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio gives new accounts a free trial covering 10 seconds of HappyHorse video generation. Paid usage is billed per generated second: as of August 2026 a limited-time promotion prices 720P from $0.084/sec (list $0.14/sec) and 1080P from $0.108/sec (list $0.18/sec).

Available Models in HappyHorse 1.0

  • HappyHorse 1.1
  • HappyHorse 1.0

Key Capabilities

  • text-to-video
  • image-to-video

Tags & Keywords

video, text-to-video, image-to-video, alibaba, leaderboard-1, latest

How to access HappyHorse 1.0

Visit the official HappyHorse 1.0 website: https://www.alibabacloud.com/campaign/happyhorse.

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