HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video

by Alibaba

HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video is the image-conditioned member of Alibaba's HappyHorse family, a cinematic video generator that surfaced in April 2026 after an anonymous run to the top of the Artificial Analysis video arena. The model produces picture and audio together in one pass, so ambient sound, effects, and lip-synced speech land in step with the motion rather than being layered on afterward. Given a first-frame image and a text description of the intended motion, it carries the frame's look and lighting into a moving shot of 3 to 15 seconds. That makes it a fit for animating product stills, bringing key art to life, and turning storyboard frames into finished 720p or 1080p footage.

Call HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video on Opper with the OpenAI SDK. Sign up without a credit card. Get started

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Pricing
from $0.14 / sec
Billing
Per second
  • Zero data retention with abuse monitoring
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Pricing

Usage-based pricing, billed by the second and tiered by variant, not by token.

VariantPrice
1080p$0.24 / sec
720p$0.14 / sec

Available routes

HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingPrice
MultiNofrom $0.14 / sec

Uptime and availability

HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

100%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Alibaba Cloud — Multi-region

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for abuse monitoring only, for a window the provider does not state, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, window not stated.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.

HappyHorse 1.0 Image-to-Video is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "alibaba:global/happyhorse-1.0-i2v",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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