LTX-Video
Hacker ApprovedRanked 7 of 9 AI video generators by recommenders
Free open video model that generates clips quickly on a consumer GPU, with synchronized audio. Critics say it trails closed Chinese models and struggles with camera moves.
Free open video model that generates clips quickly on a consumer GPU, with synchronized audio. Critics say it trails closed Chinese models and struggles with camera moves.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 79%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast generation speed
“What makes it different is the synchronized audio generation and the speed at which it operates.”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 in “LTX2 Video – Open-Access AI Video Generator with Synchronized Audio” “this video took 15s on a 4090”
Comment from 9 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok” Runs locally on a GPU
“Local text-to-vid such as LTX Video 2.3 or even older WAN could easily handle this”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “Cut Off: why access to frontier AI will soon be scarce and selective” “generate the opinionated teen locally on your GPU using LTX or something similar”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Behind state-of-the-art and closed models
“LTX's first model felt two years behind SOTA when it launched, but they viewed it as a success and kept going.”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence” “Wan/LTX/open models are significantly behind Chinese closed source models.”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol”
Other AI video generators people recommend
The four most recommended other AI video generators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 | 68 | 21 | 76% | 10 | — | Approved |
| MiniMax H3 | 29 | 11 | 73% | 3 | — | — |
| Google Veo | 20 | 11 | 65% | 8 | — | — |
| Gemini Omni | 16 | 21 | 43% | 2 | — | — |
| LTX-VideoThis page | 11 | 3 | 79% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
14 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“generate the opinionated teen locally on your GPU using LTX or something similar”
“Those are completely worthless to me now.”
“to see if it fixes the nonsense that LTX introduced”
“H3 results are underwhelming compared to LTX 2.3 so far”
“Wan/LTX/open models are significantly behind Chinese closed source models.”
“LTX 2.3 is faster, better and more capable than the Wan 2.2 model”
“All great for creation pipelines.”
“technically good but when it comes to slightly different camera movements or the subject interacting with objects they struggle”
“Local text-to-vid such as LTX Video 2.3 or even older WAN could easily handle this”
“video diffusion models (like Wan2.2 and LTX-2) often suffer from non-linear semantic evolution”
“Ltx AI is a powerful AI platform that provides innovative tools for AI-driven content creation and automation.”
“this video took 15s on a 4090”
“LTX's first model felt two years behind SOTA when it launched, but they viewed it as a success and kept going.”
“What makes it different is the synchronized audio generation and the speed at which it operates.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.