Job Lifecycle NotesField notes on the Wan 3.0 video API — sourced, dated, and corrected in public.

Job Lifecycle Notes

Short reference notes on Alibaba's Wan 3.0 video model, written while building a front-end for it. Every number is checked against the vendor's own documentation and dated, including the numbers that are unflattering.

• Job Lifecycle Notes

  Notes on what happens to a generative video job between the moment you submit it and the moment the vendor stops answering questions about it.

• Twenty-four hours on the task ID and twenty-four hours on the file

  Wan 3.0 expires results after 24 hours. Not the file, and separately the record — both. The task ID stops resolving and the returned file URL stops serving, on the same clock.

• Four clips in one request is one prompt, not four attempts

  Wan 3.0 accepts a request for up to four clips. The number is easy to misread, and the two readings lead to completely different products.

• Two model IDs is the entire version surface of a closed video model

  If you came to Wan 3.0 from the open-weights side of this field, the reproducibility story is going to feel thin, and it is worth being precise about exactly how thin rather than v

• About Job Lifecycle Notes

  Short notes on the operational side of generative video: what happens to a job after you submit it, what the platform keeps, and for how long.

The specification table these notes are drawn from lives at wan-3.run/wan-3-0-specs, with each row linked to its source.