Open-Sora: Democratizing Efficient Video Production for All

We design and implement Open-Sora, an initiative dedicated to efficiently producing high-quality video. We hope to make the model, tools and all details accessible to all. By embracing open-source principles, Open-Sora not only democratizes access to advanced video generation techniques, but also offers a streamlined and user-friendly platform that simplifies the complexities of video generation. With Open-Sora, our goal is to foster innovation, creativity, and inclusivity within the field of content creation.

📰 News

• [2025.03.12] 🔥 We released Open-Sora 2.0 (11B). 🎬 11B model achieves on-par performance with 11B HunyuanVideo & 30B Step-Video on 📐VBench & 📊Human Preference. 🛠️ Fully open-source: checkpoints and training codes for training with only $200K. [report]
• [2025.02.20] 🔥 We released Open-Sora 1.3 (1B). With the upgraded VAE and Transformer architecture, the quality of our generated videos has been greatly improved 🚀. [checkpoints] [report] [demo]
• [2024.12.23] The development cost of video generation models has saved by 50%! Open-source solutions are now available with H200 GPU vouchers. [blog] [code] [vouchers]
• [2024.06.17] We released Open-Sora 1.2, which includes 3D-VAE, rectified flow, and score condition. The video quality is greatly improved. [checkpoints] [report] [arxiv]
• [2024.04.25] 🤗 We released the Gradio demo for Open-Sora on Hugging Face Spaces.
• [2024.04.25] We released Open-Sora 1.1, which supports 2s~15s, 144p to 720p, any aspect ratio text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, infinite time generation. In addition, a full video processing pipeline is released. [checkpoints] [report]
• [2024.03.18] We released Open-Sora 1.0, a fully open-source project for video generation. Open-Sora 1.0 supports a full pipeline of video data preprocessing, training with acceleration, inference, and more. Our model can produce 2s 512x512 videos with only 3 days training. [checkpoints] [blog] [report]
• [2024.03.04] Open-Sora provides training with 46% cost reduction. [blog]

📍 Since Open-Sora is under active development, we remain different branchs for different versions. The latest version is main. Old versions include: v1.0, v1.1, v1.2, v1.3.

🎥 Latest Demo

Demos are presented in compressed GIF format for convenience. For original quality samples and their corresponding prompts, please visit our Gallery.

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OpenSora 1.3 Demo

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OpenSora 1.2 Demo

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OpenSora 1.1 Demo

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OpenSora 1.0 Demo

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A serene night scene in a forested area. [...] The video is a time-lapse, capturing the transition from day to night, with the lake and forest serving as a constant backdrop.	A soaring drone footage captures the majestic beauty of a coastal cliff, [...] The water gently laps at the rock base and the greenery that clings to the top of the cliff.	The majestic beauty of a waterfall cascading down a cliff into a serene lake. [...] The camera angle provides a bird's eye view of the waterfall.
A bustling city street at night, filled with the glow of car headlights and the ambient light of streetlights. [...]	The vibrant beauty of a sunflower field. The sunflowers are arranged in neat rows, creating a sense of order and symmetry. [...]	A serene underwater scene featuring a sea turtle swimming through a coral reef. The turtle, with its greenish-brown shell [...]

Videos are downsampled to .gif for display. Click for original videos. Prompts are trimmed for display, see here for full prompts.

🔆 Reports

• Tech Report of Open-Sora 2.0
• Step by step to train or finetune your own model
• Step by step to train and evaluate an video autoencoder
• Visit the high compression video autoencoder
• Reports of previous version (better see in according branch):
  • Open-Sora 1.3: shift-window attention, unified spatial-temporal VAE, etc.
  • Open-Sora 1.2, Tech Report: rectified flow, 3d-VAE, score condition, evaluation, etc.
  • Open-Sora 1.1: multi-resolution/length/aspect-ratio, image/video conditioning/editing, data preprocessing, etc.
  • Open-Sora 1.0: architecture, captioning, etc.

📍 Since Open-Sora is under active development, we remain different branchs for different versions. The latest version is main. Old versions include: v1.0, v1.1, v1.2, v1.3.

Quickstart

Installation

# create a virtual env and activate (conda as an example)
conda create -n opensora python=3.10
conda activate opensora

# download the repo
git clone https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora
cd Open-Sora

# Ensure torch >= 2.4.0
pip install -v . # for development mode, `pip install -v -e .`
pip install xformers==0.0.27.post2 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121 # install xformers according to your cuda version
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation

Optionally, you can install flash attention 3 for faster speed.

git clone https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention # 4f0640d5
cd flash-attention/hopper
python setup.py install

Model Download

Our 11B model supports 256px and 768px resolution. Both T2V and I2V are supported by one model. 🤗 Huggingface 🤖 ModelScope.

Download from huggingface:

pip install "huggingface_hub[cli]"
huggingface-cli download hpcai-tech/Open-Sora-v2 --local-dir ./ckpts

Download from ModelScope:

pip install modelscope
modelscope download hpcai-tech/Open-Sora-v2 --local_dir ./ckpts

Text-to-Video Generation

Our model is optimized for image-to-video generation, but it can also be used for text-to-video generation. To generate high quality videos, with the help of flux text-to-image model, we build a text-to-image-to-video pipeline. For 256x256 resolution:

# Generate one given prompt
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_256px.py --save-dir samples --prompt "raining, sea"

# Generation with csv
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_256px.py --save-dir samples --dataset.data-path assets/texts/example.csv

For 768x768 resolution:

# One GPU
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_768px.py --save-dir samples --prompt "raining, sea"

# Multi-GPU with colossalai sp
torchrun --nproc_per_node 8 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_768px.py --save-dir samples --prompt "raining, sea"

You can adjust the generation aspect ratio by --aspect_ratio and the generation length by --num_frames. Candidate values for aspect_ratio includes 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 2.39:1. Candidate values for num_frames should be 4k+1 and less than 129.

You can also run direct text-to-video by:

# One GPU for 256px
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/256px.py --prompt "raining, sea"
# Multi-GPU for 768px
torchrun --nproc_per_node 8 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/768px.py --prompt "raining, sea"

Image-to-Video Generation

Given a prompt and a reference image, you can generate a video with the following command:

# 256px
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/256px.py --cond_type i2v_head --prompt "A plump pig wallows in a muddy pond on a rustic farm, its pink snout poking out as it snorts contentedly. The camera captures the pig's playful splashes, sending ripples through the water under the midday sun. Wooden fences and a red barn stand in the background, framed by rolling green hills. The pig's muddy coat glistens in the sunlight, showcasing the simple pleasures of its carefree life." --ref assets/texts/i2v.png

# 256px with csv
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/256px.py --cond_type i2v_head --dataset.data-path assets/texts/i2v.csv

# Multi-GPU 768px
torchrun --nproc_per_node 8 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/768px.py --cond_type i2v_head --dataset.data-path assets/texts/i2v.csv

Advanced Usage

Motion Score

During training, we provide motion score into the text prompt. During inference, you can use the following command to generate videos with motion score (the default score is 4):

torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_256px.py --save-dir samples --prompt "raining, sea" --motion-score 4

We also provide a dynamic motion score evaluator. After setting your OpenAI API key, you can use the following command to evaluate the motion score of a video:

torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_256px.py --save-dir samples --prompt "raining, sea" --motion-score dynamic

Score	1	4	7

Prompt Refine

We take advantage of ChatGPT to refine the prompt. You can use the following command to refine the prompt. The function is available for both text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-xxxx
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_256px.py --save-dir samples --prompt "raining, sea" --refine-prompt True

Reproductivity

To make the results reproducible, you can set the random seed by:

torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 --standalone scripts/diffusion/inference.py configs/diffusion/inference/t2i2v_256px.py --save-dir samples --prompt "raining, sea" --sampling_option.seed 42 --seed 42

Use --num-sample k to generate k samples for each prompt.

Computational Efficiency

We test the computational efficiency of text-to-video on H100/H800 GPU. For 256x256, we use colossalai's tensor parallelism. For 768x768, we use colossalai's sequence parallelism. All use number of steps 50. The results are presented in the format: $\text{Total time (s)}/\text{peak GPU memory (GB)}$

Resolution	1x GPU	2x GPUs	4x GPUs	8x GPUs
256x256	$60/52.5$	$40/44.3$	$34/44.3$
768x768	$1656/60.3$	$863/48.3$	$466/44.3$	$276/44.3$

Evaluation

On VBench, Open-Sora 2.0 significantly narrows the gap with OpenAI’s Sora, reducing it from 4.52% → 0.69% compared to Open-Sora 1.2.

Human preference results show our model is on par with HunyuanVideo 11B and Step-Video 30B.

With strong performance, Open-Sora 2.0 is cost-effective.

Contribution

Thanks goes to these wonderful contributors:

If you wish to contribute to this project, please refer to the Contribution Guideline.

Acknowledgement

Here we only list a few of the projects. For other works and datasets, please refer to our report.

• ColossalAI: A powerful large model parallel acceleration and optimization system.
• DiT: Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers.
• OpenDiT: An acceleration for DiT training. We adopt valuable acceleration strategies for training progress from OpenDiT.
• PixArt: An open-source DiT-based text-to-image model.
• Flux: A powerful text-to-image generation model.
• Latte: An attempt to efficiently train DiT for video.
• HunyuanVideo: Open-Source text-to-video model.
• StabilityAI VAE: A powerful image VAE model.
• DC-AE: Deep Compression AutoEncoder for image compression.
• CLIP: A powerful text-image embedding model.
• T5: A powerful text encoder.
• LLaVA: A powerful image captioning model based on Mistral-7B and Yi-34B.
• PLLaVA: A powerful video captioning model.
• MiraData: A large-scale video dataset with long durations and structured caption.

Citation

@article{opensora,
  title={Open-sora: Democratizing efficient video production for all},
  author={Zheng, Zangwei and Peng, Xiangyu and Yang, Tianji and Shen, Chenhui and Li, Shenggui and Liu, Hongxin and Zhou, Yukun and Li, Tianyi and You, Yang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20404},
  year={2024}
}

@software{opensorav2,
  author = {Xiangyu Peng, Zangwei Zheng, Chenhui Shen, Tom Young, Xinying Guo, Binluo Wang, Hang Xu, Hongxin Liu, Mingyan Jiang, Wenjun Li, Yuhui Wang, Anbang Ye, Gang Ren, Qianran Ma, Wanying Liang, Xiang Lian, Xiwen Wu, Yuting Zhong, Zhuangyan Li, Chaoyu Gong, Guojun Lei, Leijun Cheng, Limin Zhang, Minghao Li, Ruijie Zhang, Silan Hu, Shijie Huang, Xiaokang Wang, Yuanheng Zhao, Yuqi Wang, Ziang Wei, Yang You},
  title = {Open-Sora 2.0: Training a Commercial-Level Video Generation Model in $200k},
  month = {March},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora}
}

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