Happy Horse 1.1 Text to Video
alibaba/happy-horse/1.1/text-to-videoHappy Horse 1.1 is Alibaba's text-to-video AI model. Turn written scripts and prompts into professional-quality video clips with realistic motion, lighting, and scene composition.
- Base price
- $0.70USD / run
- Execution
- async
- Model type
- video
- Input fields
- 5
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Examples
Select an example to load its inputs and result into the playground.
Model card
Specifications
Pricing
- Base price
- $0.70 / run
Context & modalities
- Input
- Schema-defined
- Output
- video
Capabilities
- Chat
- Not supported
- Vision
- Not supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Structured output
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Not supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Model ID
- alibaba/happy-horse/1.1/text-to-video
- Execution
- async
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Unified Run API
- Endpoint
- /v1/run
Human preference
Arena
Elo ratings from blind side-by-side votes, compared with other image and video models.
Rankings sourced from Artificial Analysis Arena
- Leaderboard
- Text to Video
- Rank
- #10 of 32
- Elo
- 1041 ±18
- Gap to #1
- −93
Text-to-video arena (silent): people pick the better of two clips from the same prompt, without seeing the model names; audio is not judged.
- #5FLUX 31095±19
- #6Dreamina Seedance 2.01084±19
- #7SkyReels V41083±19
- #8Gemini Omni Flash 1.11072±18
- #9Agnes-Video-2.51053±19
- #10HappyHorse-1.11041±18
- #11HappyHorse-1.01037±19
- #12Grok Imagine Video 1.51036±19
- #13Wan2.7-2606121023±18
- #14MAGI-2 Preview1011±17
API README
Happy Horse 1.1 Text to Video
Happy Horse 1.1 turns a written script into a 3–15 second cinematic clip with realistic motion, lighting, and fine detail. Version 1.1 adds a 480p draft tier and lowers the 1080p rate compared with 1.0.
Fields
| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
prompt | string, required | — | Text instruction. |
aspect_ratio | 21:9 / 16:9 / 3:2 / 4:3 / 5:4 / 1:1 / 4:5 / 3:4 / 2:3 / 9:16 | 16:9 | Output frame shape. |
resolution | 480p / 720p / 1080p | 720p | Sets the per-second rate. |
duration | 3–15 | 5 | Output length in seconds. |
seed | integer | random | Fix it to compare prompt changes. |
Billing
You pay for output seconds: $0.07 at 480p, $0.14 at 720p, and $0.18 at 1080p, Alibaba's list price.
| Output | 480p | 720p | 1080p |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3s | $0.21 | $0.42 | $0.54 |
| 5s (default) | $0.35 | $0.70 | $0.90 |
| 10s | $0.70 | $1.40 | $1.80 |
| 15s | $1.05 | $2.10 | $2.70 |
Failed runs are not charged.
Prompting
- Describe the shot in order: subject, action, setting, camera move, light, and sound.
- Give camera timing explicitly, e.g. “holds for two seconds, then pushes in slowly”.
- Put spoken lines in quotes and say who speaks them.
Limits
- Text only; to start from a picture use
alibaba/happy-horse/1.1/image-to-video.
Also on SandBase
Other Happy Horse endpoints: alibaba/happy-horse/1.1/image-to-video, alibaba/happy-horse/1.1/reference-to-video, alibaba/happy-horse/video-edit (edit an existing clip).
Start building
Send your first request
OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "alibaba/happy-horse/1.1/text-to-video",
"prompt": "A little girl walking on the road at sunset, cinematic lighting, smooth camera movement.",
"duration": 5,
"resolution": "720p",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
sleep 2
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
"https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Type | Default price | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
Happy Horse 1.1 Text to VideoThis model Alibaba | Video | $0.70 / run | Jun 22, 2026 |
Alibaba | Video | $1.40 / run | Oct 4, 2026 |
Alibaba | Video | $2.80 / run | Oct 4, 2026 |
Alibaba | Video | $1.00 / run | Oct 4, 2026 |
Alibaba | Video | $2.00 / run | Oct 4, 2026 |
Alibaba | Video | $0.70 / run | Aug 24, 2026 |
Questions
FAQ
How do I call Alibaba Happy Horse 1.1 Text to Video through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/happy-horse/1.1/text-to-video" to Unified Run API (/v1/run) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
Do I need a separate Alibaba account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Happy Horse 1.1 Text to Video and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.
