Open-source alternatives to paid AI tools

SkipTheSub / Runway / Sora

Open-source alternatives to Runway / Sora

Monthly price for Runway / Sora: Runway Standard $12/mo (source) . Below: 2 open-source alternatives.

Wan-Video/Wan2.1

What it can do

Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models (GitHub project description) source

What it can't do

TBD

Minimum hardware

RAM
TBD
VRAM
8.19 GB
Runs on
  • gpu
Note
T2V-1.3B model
source

Setup difficulty

4/5 — Clone + manual Python env/requirements and model download, GPU expected source

Freshness

Stars
17,221
Last push
2026-03-05
Latest release
no releases

Running cost (per month, roughly)

VPS: TBD — needs a GPU host, not covered by plain VPS plans

Local electricity: $ —/mo watts / 1000 × hours/day × 30 × 0.1831 $/kWh source

Fetched 2026-10-16 from the GitHub API.

Open on GitHub

Lightricks/LTX-Video

What it can do

Official repository for LTX-Video. (GitHub project description) source

What it can't do

TBD

Minimum hardware

RAM
TBD
VRAM
8 GB
Runs on
  • gpu
Note
RTX 4060 (8GB VRAM) example
source

Setup difficulty

4/5 — Clone + manual Python env/requirements and model download, GPU expected source

Freshness

Stars
11,117
Last push
2026-01-05
Latest release
no releases

Running cost (per month, roughly)

VPS: TBD — needs a GPU host, not covered by plain VPS plans

Local electricity: $ —/mo watts / 1000 × hours/day × 30 × 0.1831 $/kWh source

Fetched 2026-10-16 from the GitHub API.

Open on GitHub

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