Higgsfield alternatives with published weights

Higgsfield's own pages sell access: credits per generation that vary by model, with plan credits that reset each month, and nothing about published files. The alternatives with open weights in this register are families whose vendors publish at all, Wan 2.1 and 2.2 under Apache 2.0 among them. As of 2026-10-13.

1What this register already holds

The register's own lines on what an open release hands over: five licences as the repositories write them, one hardware figure, one set of variants, and what the hosted services in this register sell instead.

• Licence
  Apache 2.0stated in the repositoryWan-Video, Wan2.2 repository / recorded 2026-09-12
• Licence
  Apache 2.0stated in the repositoryLightricks, LTX-Video repository / recorded 2026-09-12
• Licence
  tencent-hunyuan-community, a vendor-written licence rather than a standard permissive oneshown on the model cardtencent/HunyuanVideo on Hugging Face / recorded 2026-09-12
• Licence
  Split: CogVideoX-2B is Apache 2.0 while CogVideoX-5B carries a separate CogVideoX licencediffers by model size inside one familyTHUDM, CogVideo repository / recorded 2026-09-12
• Licence
  Apache 2.0stated in the repositoryGenmo, Mochi repository / recorded 2026-09-12
• Licence
  apache-2.0the tag on the vendor's model cardrhymes-ai/Allegro on Hugging Face / recorded 2026-09-22
• Published models
  A 13B model, with distilled and fp8 variants published for lower VRAM and faster inferenceseveral variantsLightricks, LTX-Video repository / recorded 2026-09-12
• Hardware
  Approximately 60GB VRAM on a single GPU, with at least one H100 recommendedthe vendor's own figureGenmo, Mochi repository / recorded 2026-09-12
• What the hosted service sells
  Wan 3.0 seconds at published per-second rates, from about $0.06 at 480PSceneMixer, price list / recorded 2026-09-12

2What a service page can publish, and cannot

Higgsfield prices access: Starter and Plus plans, credits per generation that the page says vary by model, and plan credits that reset each month. Its product pages describe what those credits buy — Cinema Studio with its camera presets and up to 50 references, Soul ID trained from 20 or more photos, clips of up to 30 seconds. Krea sells units the same way, spends them across image, video, 3D and lip-sync models, and lists LoRA training from 50 images.

None of that is a weights claim, and the pages do not make one. A hosted service can publish everything about what its models do and still publish no file: the models run somewhere, and the buyer rents them. This register's rule for the other column is narrow on purpose — weights count when the vendor's own organisation publishes them, not when a platform carries the model.

3What an open release hands over

Five licences in the register, read from the repositories themselves, show what the word open covers in practice. Wan 2.1 and 2.2 are Apache 2.0, and so are LTX-Video, Mochi and Allegro. HunyuanVideo carries a licence the vendor wrote instead of a standard one, CogVideoX splits inside one family — the 2B model Apache 2.0, the 5B under a licence of its own — and SkyReels-V2 and Pyramid Flow each ship under a company-named licence.

The difference is not philosophical. A standard permissive licence is one a reader clears once; a vendor-written one has to be read, and it may route commercial use somewhere else entirely, as Stable Video Diffusion's does. A buyer who searches for an open alternative and stops at the word open has skipped the only column that decides what they may do with the file.

4The hardware note is the other half

A licence with no hardware figure still leaves the buyer holding an unpriced machine requirement. Two entries here make the point from opposite ends. LTX-Video publishes a 13B model with distilled and fp8 variants specifically for lower VRAM and faster inference, which tells a reader the vendor expects a range of cards without naming one. Mochi states approximately 60GB of VRAM on a single GPU and recommends at least one H100 — a figure and a card, both the vendor's own.

This register quotes such figures and derives none. Where a repository is silent, the cell stays empty and says so, because a memory figure estimated from a parameter count is exactly the kind of number that turns out to be wrong by a factor of two when a card is bought.

5What switching would actually mean

The hosted services this register follows sell seconds, and the register records their figures as what they are: LTX-2.5 API seconds at $0.09 to $0.39, and the pipeline's Wan 3.0 seconds at published per-second rates from about $0.06 at 480P. Both cite the model version they serve, which is why they can be read against the weights column at all.

Moving from one of them to an open family is therefore not a swap of one product for another. It is a change in what is being bought: seconds from a service, or files and the machine time to run them. The register keeps the two apart because a comparison that mixes them ends up comparing a rate against a graphics card.

6What each one's own pages state

Inclusion rule. Rows are the services this page reads plus one pipeline this register follows. A cell carries the service's own wording for the question on this page; a page that does not address the question is written that way rather than read as a denial. Order. Alphabetical by service name.

Inclusion rule. Cells are what each service's own page states; a question a page does not address is written as unstated, which describes the page and not the product. Order. As the questions are listed above.

7What the material counted

The material behind this column counts names and the comparisons people run. The pair below is the argument the open-weights question usually turns into, in the collection's own words.

Inclusion rule. Names the collection counted and that this page is about. The two tallies come from the same posts, and a post arguing with itself can land in both. Order. Descending by posts.

Inclusion rule. Pairs carried in the collection that name a family on this page. Order. Descending by the count.

8When the other answer is the better one

• You want the machine instead of the meter — The 5B release runs on consumer cards such as a 4090 and generates a 5-second 720P clip in under nine minutes on one, which is a hardware purchase rather than a bill.
• The licence has to be the standard one — Wan, LTX-Video, Mochi and Allegro are Apache 2.0 as their repositories write it, which is a licence a reader clears once rather than reads forever.
• The version being sold has to be named — The pipelines this register follows print the model version beside the rate, so a buyer can see which generation a per-second figure belongs to.

Searched as "higgsfield alternative open source". Beside it: Wan 3.0 and its weights and MiniMax H3 on Hugging Face.