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# MiniMax H3

MiniMax, MiniMax H (Hailuo successor) family. Status: current. Type: video generation. Released: 2026-07-31.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax API (Video Generation V2) | `MiniMax-H3` | https://api.minimax.io | https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/video-generation-v2-create |
| MiniMax API (fast variant) | `MiniMax-H3-Max` | https://api.minimax.io | https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/video-generation-v2-create |
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 |

## Pricing

- Per second, 768p: $0.08
- Per second, 2K: $0.13
- Unit 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: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, image, video, audio
- Output: video, audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: minimax-h3-community-license-agreement

## Where it stands

- Newer video generation models in the registry since its release: 8. The 5 newest:
  - Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (2026-11-05) https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-omni-1-2-flash/
  - FLUX 3 Max (2026-10-19) https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-3-max/
  - Kling 4.0 (and 4.0 Flash) (2026-10-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/kling-4-0/
  - Tavus Griffin (Human Interaction Model) (2026-10-01) https://postcutoff.com/m/tavus-griffin/
  - HeyGen Video 1 (2026-09-30) https://postcutoff.com/m/heygen-video-1/
- Weights are public. Licence: minimax-h3-community-license-agreement. See the licence for commercial terms.

## What stands out

- 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: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
- 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: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
- 768P to 2K regeneration: H3-Regenerate-2K re-renders a 768P result with the original context into 2K (0.05 USD/s). Source: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo

## 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.

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).

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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/minimax-h3/