ComparisonsWhich Happy Horse Alternative Fits What Happy Horse 1.1 Can't Do?
Makernice Team · ·
Prices as of November 12, 2026 (price list v15).
Key takeaways
- Happy Horse 1.1 runs text, image and reference input (up to 9 images) at 720p and 1080p, 3–15 seconds, and has no first + last frame mode.
- Seedance 2.0 keeps the 9-image reference limit and adds first + last frame; Kling 4.0 and Wan 3.0 take 10 references and run to 30 seconds.
- Makernice doesn't list an audio behavior for Happy Horse 1.1; Seedance and Kling models always output audio, and Wan 3.0's can be switched off.
- Platforms that state a US-dollar per-second price for Happy Horse 1.1 are in the table below with the date checked; the amounts are on the Happy Horse 1.1 model page.
Seedance 2.0 is the closest Happy Horse alternative if you rely on reference images, since it takes the same 9 as Happy Horse 1.1. Kling 4.0, Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 suit longer clips, and Kling 3.0 Pro suits fixed-1080p image-to-video. To keep Happy Horse 1.1 and change platform, see the dollar-priced list further down.
Where Happy Horse 1.1 leaves gaps
Alibaba's Happy Horse 1.1 has three modes on Makernice: text-to-video, image-to-video and reference-to-video. It has no first + last frame input, stops at 15 seconds, takes prompts up to 2500 characters, and offers 720p and 1080p only. The upstream documentation doesn't settle whether every clip has audio, so Makernice shows it as not listed. Any of these can be the reason to switch.
Happy Horse 1.1 compared with five video models
Mode coverage and reference count are the two places Happy Horse 1.1 differs most from the other video models on Makernice, so the table leads with them.
| Model | Modes | Reference images | Length | Makernice 720p per second | Makernice 1080p per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Horse 1.1 | text, image, reference | 9 | 3–15 s | $0.168 | $0.216 |
| Seedance 2.0 | text, image, first + last frame, reference | 9 | 4–15 s | $0.1704 | $0.4252 |
| Kling 4.0 | text, image, first + last frame, reference | 10 | 3–30 s | $0.168 | $0.252 |
| Wan 3.0 | text, image, first + last frame, reference | 10 | 2–30 s | $0.0789 | $0.1578 |
| Seedance 2.5 | text, image, first + last frame, reference | 16 | 4–30 s | $0.2592 | $0.6415 |
| Kling 3.0 Pro | text, image, first + last frame | none | 3–15 s | — | $0.1612 |
Makernice price list v15 (November 12, 2026); one price per output second for all modes of a model. Kling 3.0 Pro has a single 1080p tier and no reference mode. First + last frame is available on Seedance 2.0, Kling 4.0, Wan 3.0, Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 Pro.
Which Happy Horse 1.1 alternative fits your input type?
A Happy Horse 1.1 alternative is easiest to pick by what you feed the model: two keyframes, a set of references, one still image, or text alone.
- Two keyframes: Seedance 2.0, Wan 3.0, Seedance 2.5 and Kling 4.0 accept a start and an end image; Happy Horse 1.1 takes only a start image.
- A set of reference images: Seedance 2.0 (9), Kling 4.0 (10), Wan 3.0 (10) and Seedance 2.5 (16).
- One still image to animate at 1080p: Kling 3.0 Pro renders every clip at 1080p with audio always on.
- Text only, longer than 15 seconds: Kling 4.0 and Seedance 2.5 up to 30 seconds, Wan 3.0 from 2 seconds up.
Running Happy Horse 1.1 somewhere else
The platforms below publish a direct US-dollar price per second for Happy Horse 1.1 at 720p, 1080p or both. A platform that sells the model only for credits, or only at a promotional rate, isn't listed.
| Platform | Listed US-dollar tiers | Source checked |
|---|---|---|
| BeatAPI | 720p, 1080p | beatapi.io · 2026-11-11 |
| CometAPI | 720p, 1080p | cometapi.com · 2026-11-11 |
| Crun | 720p, 1080p | crun.ai · 2026-11-11 |
| fal | 720p, 1080p | fal.ai · 2026-11-11 |
| Kie.ai | 720p, 1080p | kie.ai · 2026-11-11 |
| MaxVideoAI | 720p, 1080p | maxvideoai.com · 2026-11-11 |
| PoYo | 720p, 1080p | poyo.ai · 2026-11-11 |
| reAPI | 720p, 1080p | reapi.ai · 2026-11-11 |
| WaveSpeedAI | 720p, 1080p | wavespeed.ai · 2026-11-11 |
Per-second amounts for each tier, side by side with Makernice, are in the Happy Horse 1.1 price table. Each platform's alternative page explains its billing, file retention and failed-run rules.
Is Happy Horse open source, and can you run it locally?
Happy Horse 1.1 has no official open-weights release that we could find (checked November 12, 2026), so it can't be run locally. A Hugging Face search for HappyHorse returns no models, and Alibaba's Wan-AI organization lists no Happy Horse checkpoint. Makernice runs Happy Horse 1.1 as a hosted API only.
From the same vendor, Alibaba's Wan 2.2 is published under Apache 2.0 for local use (checked November 12, 2026). Wan 2.2 is a different model from Happy Horse 1.1, and older than the Wan 3.0 that Makernice hosts.
Situations where Happy Horse 1.1 fits
Happy Horse 1.1 fits clips of 15 seconds or less built from text, one image or up to 9 references, at 720p or 1080p. If your pipeline doesn't depend on a known audio track or on frame-to-frame input, there is no spec reason to move. On Makernice you don't have to pick one for good: the same balance runs every model, and each run is priced before it starts.
