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CogVideoX
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Editorial pick✓ Verified working
CogVideoX
Open-source state-of-the-art video gen by Zhipu AI.
Best for
Best for ML researchers and builders needing open-source video gen.
At a glance
- Pricing
- open-source
- Setup time
- 1 day
- Learning curve
- steep
- Last verified
- 5/25/2026
What we love
- ✓Top-tier OSS video model
- ✓Apache-2.0 license
- ✓Active community
Where it falls short
- −Requires serious GPU
- −Below frontier closed models
- −Smaller ecosystem than Mochi
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20262 tiers
Self-host
$0
perpetual
- ✓Apache 2.0
Hosted
Usage
per generation
- ✓Replicate
- ✓Fal
Overview
CogVideoX is Zhipu's open-weights text-to-video model — 2B and 5B variants, Apache 2.0 license. The strongest OSS video generator alongside Mochi.
Key features
- ●2B + 5B + 13B variants
- ●Apache 2.0 license
- ●Hugging Face hosted
- ●Self-host on GPU
- ●Active research releases
Best use cases
Self-hosted video gen
Run CogVideoX on owned GPUs for sensitive workflows.
Research fine-tuning
Fine-tune CogVideoX for domain-specific video gen.
Integrations
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