Benchmarks

Real videos generated by the OpenX Flow pipeline. Every clip below was created autonomously from a text prompt — no human editing, no cherry-picking.

$0.06

Cost per scene

$0.67

Cost per minute

~84s

Generation time

$3.50

Total cost (9 clips)

The Last Library (Short Film)

A 2.5-minute narrated short film about a forgotten library at the edge of the world where ancient books come alive at night. 30 scenes generated autonomously — script, narration, video, and assembly. Total cost: $1.46.

Scenes

30

Duration

2:27

Total cost

$1.46

Model

Wan2.2-TI2V-5B

GPU

A100-40GB

Steps

50

Resolution

832×480

Individual Scenes
Scene 1 · 84.6s

Aerial: rust-orange dunes, lone library

Scene 2 · 84.0s

Push-in: ancient stone library

Scene 3 · 84.0s

Close-up: weathered stone carvings

Scene 6 · 84.0s

Interior: vast towering bookshelves

Scene 10 · 84.0s

Hundreds of books glowing

Scene 13 · 84.1s

Stars burst from open book

Scene 15 · 84.0s

Luminous tree grows from book

Scene 23 · 84.0s

Tree dissolves into golden dust

Scene 30 · 83.9s

Final: library under stars


The Deep Ocean (Narrated)

Full pipeline demo — AI narration over AI-generated deep sea footage. Script → TTS → Video → Assembly. The narration was generated for free with Edge TTS, then overlaid on the video with ffmpeg.

Scenes

3

Duration

15s

Total cost

$0.25

Model

Wan2.2-TI2V-5B

GPU

A100-40GB

Steps

50

Resolution

832×480

Individual Scenes
Scene 1 · 83.8s

Descending into dark ocean, fading sunlight

Scene 2 · 83.0s

Bioluminescent jellyfish pulsing in darkness

Scene 3 · 83.0s

Anglerfish with glowing lure in the abyss


Mars Astronaut

A lone astronaut explores the Martian surface — walking, discovering a rock, storing it, and departing at sunset. 5 connected scenes generated autonomously from text prompts.

Scenes

5

Duration

25s

Total cost

$0.30

Model

Wan2.2-TI2V-5B

GPU

A100-40GB

Steps

50

Resolution

832×480

Individual Scenes
Scene 1 · 82.2s

Astronaut walks across red desert

Scene 2 · 82.5s

Looks up at Earth in the sky

Scene 3 · 82.7s

Picks up iridescent rock

Scene 4 · 82.7s

Stores specimen, camera pulls back

Scene 5 · 82.7s

Wide shot — walks toward lander at sunset


Water

A water droplet falls, hits a surface creating ripples, then the camera pulls back to reveal an ocean at golden hour. Cinematic macro to wide transition.

Scenes

3

Duration

15s

Total cost

$0.26

Model

Wan2.2-TI2V-5B

GPU

A100-40GB

Steps

50

Resolution

832×480

Individual Scenes
Scene 1 · 82.8s

Macro: single droplet falling, black bg

Scene 2 · 82.6s

Droplet impacts water, concentric ripples

Scene 3 · 82.7s

Wide: vast ocean at golden hour sunset


Technical Details
Configuration
ModelWan2.2-TI2V-5B (5B params)
GPUNVIDIA A100-40GB (Modal)
Resolution832×480 (16:9)
Frames per clip81 (5.06s @ 16fps)
Inference steps50
Guidance scale5.0
PrecisionFP16
Steps Comparison
30 steps51.3s/clip — faster, slightly lower quality
50 steps82.8s/clip — best quality
Speedup1.6× for 30 steps

30 steps is viable for drafts. 50 steps for final output.

Gallery — 20 Clips

20 diverse scenes generated in a single batch. Total cost: $1.03. Themes: underwater, space, nature, abstract, urban.

Whale shark
Coral reef
Sea turtle
Octopus
ISS orbit
Rocket launch
Zero gravity
Star timelapse
Wolf in snow
Hummingbird
Supercell storm
Cherry blossoms
Liquid mercury
Candle flame
Ink in water
Vinyl record
Tokyo rain
NYC steam
Subway car
Saxophone player
Run it yourself

All benchmarks are reproducible. Clone the repo and run with your own Modal account.

View Benchmark Code on GitHub