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MiniMax H3

MiniMax’s current video generator (successor to Hailuo): text/image/video/audio-conditioned clips with sound, up to 2K. Async task API (create task, then query by task_id).

Model idMiniMax-H3

Price$0.08 per second, 768p

Checked29 September 2026

Where it stands

8newer video generation models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All video generation models

Weights
Weights are public. Licence: minimax-h3-community-license-agreement. See the licence for commercial terms.

How to call it

3 ways to use MiniMax H3, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for MiniMax H3
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
MiniMax API (Video Generation V2) MiniMax-H3 https://api.minimax.io platform.minimax.io
MiniMax API (fast variant) MiniMax-H3-Max https://api.minimax.io platform.minimax.io
Hugging Face huggingface.co

Pricing

Prices for MiniMax H3
Per second, 768p$0.08
Per second, 2K$0.13

As published: “per second of output video (USD). H3-Max (fal.ai post-trained, fast): 480P 0.05/s, 768P 0.08/s. Extra input images 0.04 each after 5 free”.

Source: platform.minimax.io, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Text, images, video and audio
Output
Video and audio
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
Yes
Licence
minimax-h3-community-license-agreement
Released
31 July 2026
Status
Current
Type
Video generation

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Open omni-modal video model with native audio

    Understands mixed text/image/video/audio context and generates video with native stereo audio, up to 2K and 15 s.

    Source: huggingface.co

  • H3-Context-IR prompt pipeline

    Hosted system turns free-form multimodal instructions into a structured intermediate representation before generation (API-only, not open-sourced).

    Source: huggingface.co

  • 768P to 2K regeneration

    H3-Regenerate-2K re-renders a 768P result with the original context into 2K (0.05 USD/s).

    Source: platform.minimax.io

Notes

Replaces Hailuo 2.3 / 2.3-Fast / 02 (now legacy: e.g. MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3 0.28 USD per 768P 6s clip). Modes: T2V, I2V, first/last frame, multimodal reference; 4-15 s, 24 fps. Open release is full-attention only.

Sources: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/models-intro · https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo · https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 · https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models