HappyHorse 1.0 Text-to-Video

by Alibaba

HappyHorse 1.0 Text-to-Video is the prompt-only mode of Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.0, the cinematic video model that debuted anonymously in April 2026 and took first place in both text-to-video and image-to-video on the Artificial Analysis arena before its maker was revealed. It generates footage and soundtrack in a single pass, including spoken dialogue with matching lip movement across seven languages. Working from text alone, it composes shots with a strong cinematic sensibility and renders them at 720p or 1080p in clips of 3 to 15 seconds. It suits ads, concept films, and social content where a script exists but no visual assets do.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Pricing
from $0.14 / sec
Billing
Per second
  • 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 Text-to-Video runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingPrice
MultiNot by defaultNofrom $0.14 / sec

Uptime and availability

HappyHorse 1.0 Text-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 Text-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 is not on by default — abuse monitoring. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Not by default — abuse monitoring. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call HappyHorse 1.0 Text-to-Video through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

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-t2v",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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