# Kandinsky 6.0 Video: Sber releases an open-weight video model with audio > On October 6, 2026, Sber released Kandinsky 6.0 Video, which it calls Russia's first video model to generate synchronized sound: lip-synced speech, music and ambience come out together with the picture. Clips are 5 seconds long, up to Full HD via upscaling. The model is free in GigaChat, and the weights are MIT-licensed. Published 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 URL: https://ai2face.com/news/kandinsky-6-0-video On October 6, 2026, Sber and the [Kandinsky](/models/kandinsky) Lab team released **Kandinsky 6.0 Video**, a model that generates video and sound together. Sber calls it Russia's first neural network with synchronized audio — the previous Kandinsky 5.0 produced silent clips. The model is free to use in GigaChat, and the code and weights are open under the MIT license. ## What Kandinsky 6.0 Video can do - **Video with audio.** Sound isn't layered onto a finished clip — the same model generates it alongside the picture: characters' speech with lip-sync, music and ambient noise. The track is 44 kHz, and audio can be turned off. - **Two modes:** text-to-video, or a first frame plus a description. - **Length:** 5 seconds, 121 frames at 24 fps. - **Resolution:** the model renders at 864×480, and a separate Kandinsky 6.0 Video SR model upscales to 1920×1080. GigaChat offers SD, HD and Full HD. - **Unfamiliar objects.** The system pulls in references for objects and characters that appeared after the model was trained. ## Lite vs Pro The family has two models. **Lite** has 3B parameters and is fast. **Pro** has 29B parameters and is the quality flagship. Both support both modes, and each has a distilled version that generates faster. In the developers' blind side-by-side evaluation, Kandinsky 6.0 Video Pro clearly beats Kandinsky 5.0 Video Pro and holds its own against leading audio-video models, especially on speech quality. Sber says the new version wins over the old one in 71% of cases on average. ## Where to run it - **GigaChat:** free, in the browser and the app. - **Hugging Face and GitHub:** weights for Lite, Pro, the distilled versions and the upscaler; the MIT license allows commercial use. - **Locally:** through Diffusers, ComfyUI or vLLM-Omni. Pro runs on a GPU with 16 GB of VRAM. ## Limitations Length is the big one. Five seconds with no extension mode means a 30-second piece takes six generations plus stitching. For comparison, [Veo 3.1](/models/veo-3-1) makes 8 seconds in native 1080p, [Grok Imagine](/models/grok-imagine) goes up to 15 seconds, and [Seedance](/models/seedance) 2.5 does up to 30 seconds in one pass. Kandinsky's Full HD is upscaled from 480p rather than rendered natively. The technical report compares the model with [Seedance 2.0](/models/seedance-2-0), even though [Seedance 2.5](/models/seedance-2-5) was already out at release. The previous Kandinsky 5.0 ranked 37th and 44th out of 48 on the Arena video leaderboard — more in our overview of [Russian AI video generators](/blog/russkie-nejroseti-dlya-video). Kandinsky 6.0 hasn't appeared in independent rankings yet. ## How to try it in AI2Face Kandinsky 6.0 Video is available in the AI2Face generator next to models that make longer clips with audio in native 1080p: [Veo 3.1](/models/veo-3-1), [Kling](/models/kling), [Seedance](/models/seedance) and [Gemini Omni](/models/gemini-omni). You can run one prompt through several models and keep the best take, and the cost is shown before each generation. See all options in our guide to [AI video generators](/blog/nejroseti-dlya-video). ## FAQ ### Where can I try Kandinsky 6.0 Video? For free in GigaChat. The Lite and Pro weights are on Hugging Face and GitHub under the MIT license, and Pro runs locally on a GPU with 16 GB of VRAM. ### How long are Kandinsky 6 videos? 5 seconds: 121 frames at 24 fps. There's no extension mode yet; Sber says longer clips will come in future versions. ### Does Kandinsky 6.0 Video generate audio? Yes. It creates sound together with the video: lip-synced speech, music and ambience at 44 kHz. Audio can be turned off. ### Is Kandinsky 6 better than Veo or Seedance? Not on length or resolution: Veo 3.1 makes 8-second clips in native 1080p, and Seedance 2.5 does up to 30 seconds in one pass. The developers benchmarked Kandinsky 6.0 against Seedance 2.0, not the current 2.5. ## Sources - https://kandinskylab.ai/ - https://github.com/kandinskylab/kandinsky-6 - https://huggingface.co/kandinskylab/Kandinsky-6.0-Pro-5s-Diffusers - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05608 - https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/news/2026/10/06/1234628-kandinsky-dlya-video