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Introducing Scail on WaveSpeedAI

SCAIL enables high-fidelity character animation using reference images. It handles large motion variations, stylized characters, and multi-character interactions without explicit per-frame structural guidance. Ready-to-use REST inference API, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-12-235 min read

Introducing Qwen Image Layered on WaveSpeedAI

Qwen-Image Layered is a unified image-layer decomposition model for prompt-guided compositing. Provide points, boxes, or rough masks to isolate subjects and regions, and the model splits a single image into multiple RGBA layers with clean alpha, soft edges, and correct occlusion order. Ready-to-use

2025-12-226 min read

Introducing FLUX 2 Flex Edit on WaveSpeedAI

FLUX.2 [flex] Edit delivers precise image-to-image editing from Black Forest Labs—apply natural-language instructions and exact hex color control for consistent, studio-quality results. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-12-195 min read

Introducing FLUX 2 Flex Text-to-Image on WaveSpeedAI

FLUX.2 [flex] from Black Forest Labs delivers fast, flexible text-to-image generation with enhanced realism, sharper text rendering, and built-in editing for rapid iteration: a ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no cold starts, and affordable pricing.

2025-12-185 min read

Introducing Midjourney Text-to-Image on WaveSpeedAI

Create high-quality, artistic images from text prompts using Midjourney's renowned creative interpretation. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-12-175 min read

Introducing PixVerse V5.5 Image-to-Video on WaveSpeedAI

PixVerse V5.5 Image-to-Video turns a single image into cinematic clips with smooth motion, clean detail, and strong subject fidelity—ideal for logo stingers, character motion, and social posts. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no cold starts, affordable pricing.

2025-12-076 min read

Introducing ByteDance Seedream V4.5 Edit Sequential on WaveSpeedAI

Seedream 4.5 Edit Sequential performs multi-image editing while locking character and object identity across shots. It detects main subjects, preserves continuity, and applies controlled edits with up to 4K output. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no cold starts, affordable pricing

2025-12-065 min read

Introducing Infinite You on WaveSpeedAI

InfiniteYou AI Face Swap - High-quality face swapping powered by ByteDance's zero-shot identity preservation technology. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no cold starts, affordable pricing.

2025-12-055 min read

Introducing MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 I2V Standard on WaveSpeedAI

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Standard is an image-to-video model producing physics-aware 768p output with a 2.5x efficiency improvement. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-11-295 min read

Introducing WAN 2.1 Multitalk on WaveSpeedAI

MultiTalk (WAN 2.1) is an audio-driven AI that turns a single image and audio into talking or singing conversational videos. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-11-245 min read

Introducing Video Outpainter on WaveSpeedAI

WaveSpeedAI Video Outpainter expands any video beyond its original boundaries while preserving motion, identity, and scene coherence. Perfect for aspect-ratio changes, reframing, adding safe margins, or generating new visual context without cropping or losing content.

2025-11-195 min read

Introducing Qwen Image Edit Plus on WaveSpeedAI

Qwen-Image-Edit-Plus (2509) is a 20B MMDiT image editor with multi-image editing, single-image consistency and native ControlNet support. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-11-155 min read

Introducing Ace Step on WaveSpeedAI

ACE-Step generates up to 4-minute music with lyrics from text and high acoustic fidelity; supports voice cloning, lyric edits, and remixing. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-10-255 min read

Introducing Bria Generate Background on WaveSpeedAI

Swap image backgrounds using text or reference images; realistic results. Trained on licensed data for risk-free commercial use. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-10-215 min read

Introducing FLUX Kontext Dev Multi Ultra Fast on WaveSpeedAI

Experimental FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] - Multi-Ultra-Fast endpoint with native multi-image handling for batch and multi-view inputs. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-10-195 min read

Introducing Image Face Swap Pro on WaveSpeedAI

Instant online AI face swap for photos with no watermark, delivering realistic, shareable results in seconds. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-10-075 min read

Introducing Image Head Swap on WaveSpeedAI

Instant online AI head & face swap for photos with no watermark, delivering realistic, shareable results in seconds. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-10-065 min read

Introducing Video Head Swap on WaveSpeedAI

Instant online AI head & face swap for videos with no watermark, delivering realistic, shareable results in seconds. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-10-066 min read

Introducing Instant Character on WaveSpeedAI

Instant Character transforms an uploaded character image and a text prompt into styled, action- and mood-driven character renders. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-10-015 min read

Introducing Recraft AI Recraft Crisp Upscale on WaveSpeedAI

Recraft Crisp Upscale enhances textures, fine details, and facial features to add depth beyond simple resolution boosts. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-09-256 min read

Introducing Framepack on WaveSpeedAI

Framepack is an efficient autoregressive Image-to-Video model that generates smooth, temporally consistent videos from a single image. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-09-256 min read

Introducing Hyper3d Rodin V2 Image To 3d on WaveSpeedAI

Hyper3D Rodin v2 turns a single image into production-ready 3D assets with clean topology, UVs and textures. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-09-215 min read

Introducing FLUX Controlnet Union Pro 2.0 on WaveSpeedAI

Flux ControlNet Union Pro 2.0 enables simultaneous Canny, Depth, Soft Edge, Pose, and Grayscale conditioning for precise image control. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-09-204 min read

Introducing Recraft AI Recraft 20b on WaveSpeedAI

Recraft AI 20b delivers affordable, fast image generation. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-09-115 min read

Introducing ByteDance Avatar Omni Human on WaveSpeedAI

Bytedance OmniHuman turns a single portrait photo into avatar video with lifelike motion and expressions ($0.12/sec). Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-09-095 min read

Introducing Midjourney Image-to-Video on WaveSpeedAI

Midjourney Image-to-Video turns a single image into an artistically rich, high-quality video using Midjourney's creative AI. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-08-295 min read

Introducing Runway Gen4 Image on WaveSpeedAI

RunwayML Gen4 Image model lets you generate precise images using up to 3 reference images to capture every angle and detail. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-08-245 min read

Introducing Vidu Start End To Video Q2 Turbo on WaveSpeedAI

Vidu Q2 Turbo Start-End to Video creates smooth Image-to-Video transitions between start and end images with fast high-quality results. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-08-175 min read

Introducing ElevenLabs Eleven V3 on WaveSpeedAI

ElevenLabs eleven-v3 is a text-to-speech model available as a hosted endpoint; requests cost $0.1 per 1000 characters. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-08-115 min read

Introducing Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Edit on WaveSpeedAI

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) offers image-to-image generation and precise editing with deep reasoning for improved accuracy. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-08-085 min read

Introducing Vidu Text-to-Image Q2 on WaveSpeedAI

Vidu Text-to-Image Q2 converts text prompts into high-quality images with exceptional visual detail and creative flexibility. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-07-065 min read

Introducing Vidu Text-to-Video 2.0 on WaveSpeedAI

Vidu Text-to-Video 2.0 converts text prompts into high-quality 720p videos with exceptional visual detail and diverse motion dynamics. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-07-055 min read

Introducing Vidu Text-to-Video on WaveSpeedAI

Vidu Text to Video converts text prompts into high-quality 720p videos with exceptional visual fidelity and diverse motion dynamics. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

2025-07-055 min read

As Replicate is joining Cloudflare, Builders Need Stability More Than Ever — Why Thousands Are Moving Their Multimodal Workloads to WaveSpeedAI

When a major multimodal AI platform is acquired, ripple effects appear quickly. For teams running multimodal workloads, uncertainty isn’t just inconvenient. It’s expensive. A growing number are answering by moving to WaveSpeedAI.

2025-06-234 min read

Hailuo 2.3 — Where Motion Meets Emotion

For years, creators have imagined AI that can capture not only motion but also emotion — the subtle essence that makes human expression feel vibrant. That vision has long felt just out of reach. However, today, with the launch of the Hailuo 2.3 Model Series, we take a step closer to making it real! Now it officially lives on WaveSpeedAI! Built by MiniMax, each model—i2v-standard, t2v-standard, or i2v-Fast is designed to bring imagination to life with strong emotional depth. Let's enter the next era of cinematic AI generation, where technology feels human, and every frame tells a story.

2025-06-013 min read

Introducing Nano Banana Pro — The New Standard for AI Visual Intelligence

Discover how Google’s Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3.0 Pro Image) transforms visual creation with advanced remastering, style translation, and multimodal creative intelligence.

2025-05-203 min read

Kling 2.6 Is Now Live on WaveSpeedAI: Experience “What You See Is What You Hear” Video Generation

WaveSpeedAI is excited to announce the official launch of Kling 2.6, a breakthrough upgrade that reshapes the way creators produce AI-powered videos. For the first time, video, speech, sound effects, and ambient audio can be generated simultaneously in a single pass.

2025-05-143 min read

Kling Reference-to-Video: Generate New Videos from Your Subjects — Now on WaveSpeedAI

Kling Reference-to-Video allows you to generate entirely new video content based on subject reference images or videos, while maintaining consistent appearance, identity, and scene logic across all frames.

2025-05-083 min read

Veo 3.1 is now available on WaveSpeedAI

WaveSpeedAI, the global multimodal inference acceleration platform, today announced the availability of Veo 3.1 — Google’s latest video and audio generation model — now accessible via the WaveSpeedAI API.

2025-04-042 min read

Wan2.2-Fun-Control: Next-Gen AI Video Generation with Precision Control – Now on WaveSpeedAI

Wan2.2-Fun-Control is a next-generation video generation and control model designed to generate high-quality videos that adhere strictly to predefined control conditions.

2025-03-295 min read

Framepack Now Live on WaveSpeedAI: High-Fidelity Image-to-Video via Autoregressive Generation

Framepack, a cutting-edge autoregressive image-to-video model from lllyasviel (the creator of ControlNet), is now available on WaveSpeedAI. Framepack redefines how static images become videos—by generating each frame based on the one before, it produces smoother motion, greater temporal consistency, and more coherent narratives than traditional methods.

2025-03-082 min read

Ghibli Now Live on WaveSpeedAI

Discover the groundbreaking Ghibli model on WaveSpeedAI, enabling high-quality video generation with unprecedented ease and efficiency. Explore its features, use cases, and why WaveSpeedAI is the ideal platform for your creative needs.

2025-03-075 min read

InstantCharacter Model Launches on WaveSpeed: Ushering in a New Era of Personalized Character Generation

We’re excited to announce that Tencent AI Lab’s latest innovation — InstantCharacter, a state-of-the-art personalized character generation model — is now officially live on the WaveSpeed platform. Built upon a scalable Diffusion Transformer framework, InstantCharacter offers high fidelity, strong generalization, and fine-grained text controllability, setting a new benchmark in character generation technology.

2025-02-252 min read

The Next Step in AI Image Editing: Meet Qwen-Image-Edit-2509

2025-02-033 min read

WaveSpeedAI Video Outpainter: The Fastest Way to Expand Videos & Convert Aspect Ratios Without Cropping

If you need to repurpose videos for multiple platforms—TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Reels, Shorts, ads—cropping isn’t an option.

2025-01-053 min read