Everyone reposts the same five generators that die at 8 seconds. Long-for-free was never one tool โ itโs three layers the English lists donโt index: open models where length is a flag, not a paywall, the Chinese sites handing out fat daily quotas, and the pool/free-GPU layer that runs it all at $0. Every pick carries a ๐ต๏ธ why you haven't seen it โ if youโve read a โfree AI videoโ thread, youโve earned the obscure shelf.
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HF ZeroGPU video Spaces โ free A100/Blackwell; SkyReels-V2 & FramePack are already deployed โ open, type, render long. Duplicate the Space = your own private daily GPU quota.
MAGI-1 web (sand.ai/magi) โ a free web tier that extends any clip forever (constant memory = no length wall).
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No-cap models โ length is a FLAG, not a paywall
The โ8-second capโ is a SaaS meter. These open models simply donโt have one:
LongCat-Video (Meituan) โ 13.6B MIT model pretrained for minutes-long continuation (not clip-stitching); ~15-min demos, runs ~12GB. ๐ต๏ธ shipped by a food-delivery giant โ nobody lists it next to Wan/Hunyuan.
Causal-Forcing / Self-Forcing (Tsinghua) โ autoregressive streaming with a rolling cache = real-time, infinite 480p on a 6GB card. ๐ต๏ธ Feb/May-2026 arXiv repos, no product wrapper โ invisible to tool search.
SkyReels-V2 (Skywork) โ --video_length rolls out infinite T2V/I2V via Diffusion-Forcing; 1.3B fits ~15GB. ๐ต๏ธ buried under the Wan/Hunyuan canon.
MAGI-1 (Sand.ai) โ autoregressive world-model, constant memory at ANY length + a built-in extender; the 4.5B distill runs at home. ๐ต๏ธ press only covered the 24B flagship.
FramePack (lllyasviel) โ VRAM stays flat at ~6GB regardless of length โ 60โ120s on a gaming laptop; one-click Windows app. ๐ต๏ธ bare repo, zero marketing (the one here you might already know).
Wan2GP โ one launcher that runs LongCat / MAGI / SkyReels on as little as 6GB (even a GTX-10). The low-VRAM crowdโs secret entry point.
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Run them on someone elseโs GPU โ free
comfyui-kaggle โ boots ComfyUI on Kaggleโs free 30h/week GPU (2รT4 = 32GB, no card) with a no-account tunnel = a standing render farm for any long workflow.
ModelScope ้ญๆญ โ free video API-Inference (Wan2.2) + free GPU notebooks/Spaces to run any long-video repo on Alibabaโs hardware.
HF ZeroGPU โ (above) the rare long models, one click, no install.
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Hosted generators โ free DAILY quota (the drip beats the meter)
ๅฐไบ้ Xiaoyunque (ByteDance / CapCut team) โ narrative studio on Seedance 2.x: ~90 free credits on daily login (~10+ clips/day), 15โ60s with native audio + multi-shot consistency. ๐ต๏ธ a separate CN-only ByteDance product from Jimeng/Doubao.
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ๅฝฑ Qingying (Zhipu) โ free during open testing, image-to-video + built-in sound; script it with GLM-Free-API to turn a session token into an OpenAI-style video endpoint.
้ไนไธ็ธ Tongyi Wanxiang (Alibaba) โ daily sign-in credits, 10s 1080p, no watermark, free login only.
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The credit-pool layer โ turn a daily cap into a pool
jimeng-free-api-all โ reverse-proxies Jimeng/Dreamina: 66 free video credits/account/day, comma-separated logins auto-rotate โ stack 10 of your own accounts = 660 renders/day, OpenAI /v1. ๐ต๏ธ CN reverse-eng repo, GitHub-only.
Sub2API โ pool your own free-tier accounts into one load-balanced video endpoint (smart scheduling, real /v1/videos).
yangmao.ai โ the wool-pull tracker: which free video tier is live TODAY (quotas move fast โ the map that keeps this list from going stale).
๐ฃ๏ธ Long talking-head / avatar โ infinite presenter, local, no watermark
InfiniteTalk (MeiGen-AI) โ photo/video + your full TTS โ unlimited-length lip-sync, and dubs existing footage; one 4090.
HeyGem.ai / Duix (็ก
ๅบๆบ่ฝ) โ fully offline HeyGen clone: 10s selfie โ unlimited 4K presenter, Docker + desktop, no meter.
SoulX-FlashHead (Soul AI) โ 1.3B, infinite real-time talking head, 96fps on one 4090 (checkpoint may be โcoming soonโ โ check).
Hallo2 (Fudan) โ one photo + audio โ 4K, up-to-an-hour portrait (v2 removed v1โs 15s limit).
MultiTalk (MeiGen-AI) โ two avatars talking from separate audio tracks โ dialogue no SaaS offers.
The map: awesome-free-models โ a non-SEOโd community index where new keyless/free endpoints get logged before any blog covers them.
Two honest notes: CN free quotas move fast (Xiaoyunque ยท Qingying ยท Tongyi ยท ModelScope) โ check the live number on yangmao.ai before a run; and the pool tools are for stacking your own accounts, nothing fancier. FramePack + Hallo2 are the two a jaded reader might already own โ everything else is genuinely off the shelf.
The cap was always just a meter. The open models never had one.
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