Wan 3.0 Prime
Up to 5x faster iteration of Wan 3.0. Text to video up to 30 seconds, with native audio.
alibaba/wan3.0-video-prime/text-to-video
Capabilities
Best for
- •Cinematic text-to-video shots
- •Short social and ad clips
- •Consistent multi-shot sequences
- •Look-dev and style exploration
Not for
- •Frame-exact rotoscoping
- •Feature-length renders
- •Pixel-perfect compositing
- •Precise on-screen text
Authentication
api key header
The Pika API uses API keys to authenticate requests. Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Your API key is a secret. Don't expose it in browsers or other client-side code. Instead, call the API from your server. The signed-in playground uses a portal session and never sends your API key.
header
X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY
Endpoint
asynchronous · poll for the result
POSThttps://api.dev.pikalabs.app/v1/media/alibaba/wan3.0-video-prime/text-to-videogenerate endpoint
GEThttps://api.dev.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}poll until completed
GEThttps://api.dev.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/contentthe output URL, for clients that only kept the id
DELETEhttps://api.dev.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}erase the stored media and prompt
REST Setup
plain HTTPS
Video generation runs through the REST endpoint shown above. The API is plain JSON over HTTPS, so any HTTP client works. No provider-specific SDK is required.
Generate
POST /v1/media/alibaba/wan3.0-video-prime/text-to-video
Request
curl -X POST https://api.dev.pikalabs.app/v1/media/alibaba/wan3.0-video-prime/text-to-video \-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \-H "Content-Type: application/json" \-d '{"prompt": "A striking top-down aerial editorial film, 16:9, recreating this exact scene and art direction: a bird's-eye view looking straight down onto a dense crowd of people on pale grey concrete, dressed in an eclectic mix of muted autumnal tones and pops of colour (rust, teal, pink, mustard, burgundy, denim, green). Three chefs in crisp white uniforms and tall white toques each carry an elaborate tiered cake through the crowd — one pink, one pale blue, one cream. Preserve exactly: the overhead top-down perspective, the pale concrete ground, the varied colourful wardrobe of the crowd, the three cake-carrying chefs, soft flat daylight and muted film-grain palette (Andreas Gursky / editorial aerial). The scene comes alive: the crowd walks and mills in different directions casting soft moving shadows; the three chefs weave slowly and carefully through the throng, balancing their cakes level; hair and coats sway. Dynamic but smooth camera in ONE continuous move — the high overhead camera drifts and slowly rotates far above the crowd, easing down a touch, always looking straight down. Photographic, grounded, grainy; NO morphing, NO cuts, keep everyone's clothing and the three cakes consistent. Native sound: the layered murmur and chatter of a large crowd, shuffling footsteps on concrete, a soft open ambience.","resolution": "1080p","ratio": "adaptive","duration": 15,"audio": true,"watermark": false}'
Response
{"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status": "queued"}
Request body
promptstringrequired
Text prompt (max 20000 chars).resolutionenum
Output resolution.ratioenum
Output aspect ratio; 'adaptive' lets the model choose.durationenumdefault: 5
Output length in seconds (2-30), or 'auto' for smart duration.audiobooleandefault: true
Whether to generate audio.seedinteger0 – 2147483647
Deterministic seed.watermarkbooleandefault: false
Also return a watermarked result.Accepted values
- resolution
- ratio
Returns
Returns a job object with status , not the final output. Store the id from the response and poll the job until it completes.
Poll status
GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}
Request
curl https://api.dev.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id} \-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
Response
{"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status": "running"}
Poll the job by id until it reaches a terminal state: completed or failed. A completed job carries its download URL in output, and GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content returns that same URL as { "url" } for clients that only kept the id.
DELETE /v1/media/jobs/{request_id} erases the stored media for a job, and the request captured at submit (the prompt and parameters). The job then reports deleted_at and no output, and the content endpoint answers 410.
The job object
idstring
Unique identifier for the job.statusenum
The status of the job.One of:object
The generation output. Present once the job completes.errorstring
If the job failed, the reason for the failure.deleted_atnumber
When you deleted the job's stored media, in epoch seconds. Null until then, and output is null once it is set.usageobject
Units the provider reported for the job, such as video_output_tokens or image_output_tokens. Present once the job is terminal, carries only the units the job reports, and is null when nothing was reported.object
What the job charged. Present once the job is terminal; null on the submit response and on webhooks.Errors
shared across calls
Errors use conventional HTTP status codes with a JSON body of the shape {"message": "..."}. Validation failures return 422 with a message naming the offending field. Submit rejections after the job row exists (balance, rate limit) return the failed job envelope — branch on error.code.
| Status | When | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 401 Unauthorized | The API key is missing or invalid. | {"message":"Invalid API key"} |
| 403 Forbidden | An inactive key is rejected with a {"message"} body. A submit that the org balance or postpaid cycle limit cannot cover is rejected after the job row exists and returns the failed job envelope. GET /billing/balance separates the two: a 200 means the key is active, so the rejection was the balance or the cycle limit. | {"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"insufficient_balance","message":"Insufficient org balance"}} |
| 404 Not Found | No job with that id exists in your org, or the media path names an unknown vendor/model/function. | {"message":"media job not found"} |
| 409 Conflict | The result was requested before the job completed, or an Idempotency-Key header was reused with a different body. | {"message":"media job is not ready"} |
| 422 Unprocessable Entity | The request body failed validation: an invalid enum value, a missing required field, a wrong type, or malformed JSON. The JSON message names the offending field. A schema-valid parameter combination that cannot be priced instead fails after job creation and returns the failed job envelope with error code invalid_input. | {"message":"duration: Input should be less than or equal to 15"} |
| 429 Too Many Requests | Org limit reached: requests per minute or day, or concurrent jobs. Returned as the failed job envelope; check the Retry-After header and retry with a fresh Idempotency-Key. | {"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"rate_limited","message":"rate limit exceeded: rpm"}} |
| 503 Service Unavailable | The model rail or a backend dependency is temporarily unavailable. Returned as the failed job envelope; retry with backoff and a fresh Idempotency-Key. | {"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"provider_unavailable","message":"media dispatch unavailable"}} |