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<title>NodeValid</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/"/>
<link rel="self" href="https://nodevalid.com/weights.json"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>NodeValid: published video model weights</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Which video model weights vendors have released, under what licence and on what hardware, and which version the hosted services sell instead.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wan: which versions have published weights</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/models/wan/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/models/wan/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Which Wan versions the vendor publishes weights for, under what licence, on what hardware, and which version the hosted services sell instead.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LTX-Video: what Lightricks has published</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/models/ltx-video/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/models/ltx-video/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The LTX-Video weights published under Apache 2.0, the variants released for lower VRAM, and the version sold only through the API.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LTX Studio: sold version against published weights</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/hosted/ltx-studio/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/hosted/ltx-studio/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The model version LTX Studio sells by the second, whether weights for it are published, and which releases in the same family are open.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SceneMixer: sold version against published weights</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/hosted/scenemixer/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/hosted/scenemixer/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The model version SceneMixer sells by the second, whether weights for it are published, and which releases in the same family are open.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What it takes to run the open weights</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/requirements/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/requirements/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The hardware figures the Wan and LTX-Video repositories publish, why one repository gives two of them, and what a per-second rate replaces.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What counts as published weights</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/reading/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/reading/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Why only vendor organisations count as a release, why the version sold gets its own row, and why hardware figures are quoted rather than derived.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>HunyuanVideo: what the repository publishes</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/models/hunyuanvideo/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/models/hunyuanvideo/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The licence, model size, stated hardware and resolution HunyuanVideo publishes in its own repository, with the date each was read.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>CogVideoX: what the repository publishes</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/models/cogvideox/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/models/cogvideox/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The licence, model size, stated hardware and resolution CogVideoX publishes in its own repository, with the date each was read.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mochi 1: what the repository publishes</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/models/mochi/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/models/mochi/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The licence, model size, stated hardware and resolution Mochi 1 publishes in its own repository, with the date each was read.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open weights come under two kinds of licence</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/two-kinds-of-open/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/two-kinds-of-open/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Three families here carry a standard permissive licence. One carries a licence its vendor wrote, and one splits by model size.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>From four gigabytes to eighty</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/vram-ladder/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/vram-ladder/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Published hardware figures across these families span a factor of twenty, from a laptop-class card to a rented data-centre one.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why naming the GPU beats stating a memory figure</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/naming-the-card/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/naming-the-card/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Two families name the card their figures were measured on. That is the difference between a number a reader can price and one they have to interpret.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How long a clip each family states</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/length-across-families/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/length-across-families/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Published lengths run from a few seconds up to sixty, and the repositories state them in different units, so the table carries both.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Published families that no hosted service names</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/published-but-not-sold/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/published-but-not-sold/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Two of the five families here have no counterpart on any priced page in this register, so their cost cannot be compared with anything.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Apache 2.0 on both, and it settles less than it seems</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/licence-is-not-the-question/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/licence-is-not-the-question/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Both open releases here carry the same permissive licence, so the licence cannot separate them; the version that is published is what does.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The version sold is not the version published</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/which-version-is-open/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/which-version-is-open/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Weights exist for two earlier generations of one family, while the generation that hosted services actually sell has none published at all.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What the repository says you can run on one card</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/what-you-can-run-at-home/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/what-you-can-run-at-home/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>A 5B model is described as running on a consumer graphics card, with a stated time for producing a five-second clip at 720P.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why one repository publishes two hardware answers</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/the-two-hardware-numbers/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/the-two-hardware-numbers/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The same repository names a consumer card for one command and an 80GB floor for others, and both of those figures are correct.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How long a clip the published weights can make</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/how-long-a-clip/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/how-long-a-clip/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>One repository states support for up to sixty seconds, far longer than any single generation the hosted services in this register sell.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Renting seconds against running your own card</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/questions/buy-or-run/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/questions/buy-or-run/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Both hosted services here publish per-second rates, but comparing them with local compute means comparing two different versions of the model.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What a model licence actually governs</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/learn/reading-a-model-licence/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/learn/reading-a-model-licence/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>A permissive licence on published weights answers fewer questions than it appears to. These are the ones it answers and the ones it leaves entirely open.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reading a stated hardware requirement</title>
<link href="https://nodevalid.com/learn/planning-local-hardware/"/>
<id>https://nodevalid.com/learn/planning-local-hardware/#2026-09-12</id>
<updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Repositories state hardware in their own terms, and two figures rarely describe one run. What a VRAM number covers, what moves it, and what it leaves out.</summary>
</entry>
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