Open-Sora-Plan
Community-driven plan to reproduce Sora with open-source video generation models.
About
Open-Sora-Plan is a community effort led by Peking University's Yuan Lab and Tuozhan AIGC Lab to reproduce Sora-class video generation in the open, and it is distinct from HPC-AI Tech's similarly named Open-Sora project. The project develops text-to-video and image-to-video models on a diffusion transformer stack with its own components: WFVAE, a wavelet-enhanced video autoencoder with 8x8x8 downsampling, and SUV, a sparse 3D attention diffusion transformer the team reports as roughly 35 percent faster than dense attention at similar quality. Version 1.5.0 is an 8 billion parameter model trained on 40 million video samples, generating up to 121 frames at 576x1024 resolution with variable resolution and duration through bucket training; this release runs on Huawei Ascend 910 accelerators, with a GPU build planned. Contributors include Huawei and Pengcheng Laboratory, and code and models are released under an Apache license.
Should you use Open-Sora-Plan?
Pick it when
Pick Open-Sora-Plan if you run Huawei Ascend 910 accelerators, or you are researching its components directly: the WFVAE wavelet autoencoder and the SUV sparse 3D attention transformer reported as about 35 percent faster than dense attention.
Look elsewhere when
Skip it on NVIDIA hardware for now: v1.5.0 targets Ascend and its GPU build is still planned. For CUDA work use HPC-AI Tech's Open-Sora or Wan 2.1, and do not confuse the two Open-Sora projects.
Alternatives to Open-Sora-Plan
- Open-Sora
Different team, runs on NVIDIA GPUs today, and its 11B 2.0 model handles text and image to video at up to 768px with Apache-2.0 code and weights.
- Wan 2.1
Mature CUDA suite with Diffusers and ComfyUI support and a 1.3B model in about 8 GB, versus an Ascend-first research release.
- Pyramid Flow
Trained partly on Open-Sora Plan data under MIT, it runs on ordinary NVIDIA GPUs from about 8 GB with offload and makes 10 second 768p clips.
- Latte
Apache-2.0 research DiT with factorized spatial and temporal attention plus training code, a simpler academic baseline rather than an 8B production-scale model.
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Details
- Category
- Video Generation
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Advanced (4/5)
- License
- MIT
- Minimum VRAM
- 16 GB
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026