Kandinsky 5.0

MIT-licensed family: Video Pro (19B), Video Lite (2B) and Image Lite (6B)

What Kandinsky 5.0 does

  • MIT-licensed family: Video Pro (19B), Video Lite (2B) and Image Lite (6B)
  • Video Pro ranked top open-source text-to-video on LMArena (Dec 2025)
  • ComfyUI and Diffusers integrations

Kandinsky 5.0 — straight answers

What is Kandinsky 5.0?

Kandinsky 5.0 is listed under AI Video Generation, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. MIT-licensed family: Video Pro (19B), Video Lite (2B) and Image Lite (6B). It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.

Is Kandinsky 5.0 free?

Kandinsky 5.0 is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Kandinsky 5.0 do?

Kandinsky 5.0 does 3 things the catalog singles out: Mit-licensed family: video pro (19b), video lite (2b) and image lite (6b); video pro ranked top open-source text-to-video on lmarena (dec 2025); comfyui and diffusers integrations.

What is the best free alternative to Kandinsky 5.0?

CogVideoX (Zhipu) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Video Generation sub-category and is free. Genmo (Mochi 1), HunyuanVideo (Tencent) and HunyuanVideo 1.5 also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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