
Wan Prompting Guide & Examples (2026): Role-Play & Reference Video
A practical Wan 2.6 prompting guide — reference-to-video role-play, multi-shot narrative, audio-visual sync and identity retention, with copy-paste API examples.
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A practical Wan 2.6 prompting guide — reference-to-video role-play, multi-shot narrative, audio-visual sync and identity retention, with copy-paste API examples.

A practical Seedream 5.0 Pro prompting guide — structure prompts for legible multilingual text, layer-separated editing and up to 10 references, with copy-paste examples.

A practical Kling V3 prompting guide — structure prompts for camera movement, 4K detail, multi-shot sequences and image-to-video, with copy-paste API examples.

Get an OpenAI API key from the platform dashboard, set up billing, keep it secure, make a test call, and compare a multi-model gateway alternative.

Step-by-step: get a Google Gemini API key via Google AI Studio, understand the free vs paid tier, then call Gemini for up to 30% less through one key with LinkModel.

Step-by-step: create a DeepSeek API key on the platform, top up credits, and understand the China data-residency caveat — plus a zero-retention way to call DeepSeek.

Step-by-step: create an Anthropic API key in the Claude console, add credits, keep it secure — plus a cheaper one-key way to call Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku.

How to get an API key for OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and DeepSeek — where to create each, billing gotchas, key security best practices, and a single key that calls them all.

A practical MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 prompting guide — the Camera-Character-Reaction structure, stylized/anime prompts and e-commerce object motion, with API examples.

Wan 2.6 API guide — Alibaba's video model with role-play reference-to-video, multi-shot narrative, audio-visual sync and up to 15s output. Access, pricing and code.

The best text-to-video APIs in 2026 — Seedance, Kling, HappyHorse, Hailuo and Sora compared on quality, audio and cost, plus code to generate video from a prompt.

Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance's GPT Image 2 rival — 2K output, 14-language text, layer-separated editing, at a fraction of the price. Full API guide, pricing and code.

How prompt caching works and how to use it to cut LLM API costs — cache-hit rates by provider (Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Kimi), the prefix rule, and common mistakes.

Can Nano Banana do text to video? No — Nano Banana is an image model. Here's the honest answer, why the confusion exists, and the best models for free text to video.

A practical Nano Banana API guide — Google's Gemini image models for fast, cheap generation and editing. The original, Nano Banana 2, and Pro compared, with code.

A multimodal AI API gives you text, image, and video generation behind one key and one request shape. Why it beats stitching providers together, and how to build with it.

A practical Kimi K2.6 API guide — Moonshot AI's 1T-param multimodal agent model. Pricing, the 300-sub-agent swarm, cache economics, and how it compares to DeepSeek.

The best image-to-video APIs in 2026 — animate a still with Seedance, Kling, Wan or Hailuo. How image-to-video works, which model to use, and code to get started.