Kandinsky 5.0
Open family of flow-matching video and image diffusion models spanning 2B fast to 19B quality tiers.
About
Kandinsky 5.0 covers the whole local video stack in one family: Video Lite 2B checkpoints for 5 and 10 second clips at 768x512, Video Pro at 19B pushing quality up to 1920x1080, plus a 6B Image Lite text-to-image model and a 6B editing variant, all latent diffusion transformers trained with flow matching. Kandinsky Lab published unusually complete assets, including pretrain checkpoints alongside SFT, CFG-free, and distilled versions of the Lite models, so researchers can build on intermediate stages rather than only polished final weights. Speed spans the range too, from 13-second image generation to around 35 seconds for a distilled Lite clip and about 20 minutes for a 5 second 1080p Pro clip on an H100. Everything is MIT licensed with code on GitHub, weights on Hugging Face, Diffusers support, and ComfyUI integration; offloading and quantization options stretch requirements down to roughly 12GB VRAM for the smaller models. The staged release ran September through December 2025 and remains among the most open video model programs anywhere.
Should you use Kandinsky 5.0?
Pick it when
Pick Kandinsky 5.0 when you want one MIT-licensed family for both drafts and finals: the distilled 2B Lite renders a clip in about 35 seconds on an H100, the 19B Pro reaches 1080p, and pretrain checkpoints support research.
Look elsewhere when
Skip it if you need sound with your video, which LTX-2.5 or Ovi generate natively, or clips longer than 10 seconds, where LongCat-Video or SkyReels-V2 fit. A 5-second 1080p Pro clip takes about 20 minutes on an H100.
Alternatives to Kandinsky 5.0
- Wan 2.1
Apache-2.0 suite with first-last-frame, VACE editing, and in-video text rendering, but text-to-video tops out at 720p versus Kandinsky Pro's 1080p.
- HunyuanVideo 1.5
8.3B mid-size model at about 14 GB with offload, but under a Tencent license that excludes the EU, UK, and South Korea.
- LTX-2.5
Generates synchronized audio and holds characters across shots, but its weights need a paid license above 10 million dollars in annual revenue.
- CogVideoX
Lighter 2B option that runs in about 4 GB, but only 720x480, 6-second output with no 1080p tier.
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Details
- Category
- Video Generation
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Intermediate (3/5)
- License
- MIT
- Minimum VRAM
- 12 GB
- Added
- Aug 24, 2026