HunyuanVideo 1.5
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: The licence does not apply in the EU, UK or South Korea, so there is no right to use it there.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 8.3B text-to-video and image-to-video model at 480p and 720p, with an upscaler to 1080p; the card gives 14GB minimum GPU memory with offloading. |
| Modality | video, image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Tencent Hunyuan Community License |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5 |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use HunyuanVideo 1.5
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Tencent Hunyuan Community License.
Quickstart
git clone https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo-1.5 # then follow the README to download tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5 and run inference
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "HunyuanVideo 1.5" (tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- The licence does not apply in the EU, UK or South Korea, so there is no right to use it there.
- Tencent Hunyuan Community License Agreement (LICENSE in the HF repo): royalty-free licence including commercial use, but only in the Territory, which excludes the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea. If…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is HunyuanVideo 1.5 free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Tencent Hunyuan Community License. No credit card is needed.
Can I use HunyuanVideo 1.5 commercially?
Yes, under Tencent Hunyuan Community License. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with HunyuanVideo 1.5?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Tencent Hunyuan Community License.
Source: huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5, checked 8 Oct 2026.