MiniMax H3
Highest-ranked open-weight video model — and one of the cheapest.
MiniMax H3 (Hailuo) is MiniMax’s video generation model, released with open weights. At 768p it ranks in the top tier of the text-to-video arena at a fraction of rivals’ price.
- Provider
- MiniMax
- Type
- Video model
- Released
- Jul 30, 2026
- Price
- ≈$4.80 per minute of video (768p)
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- video
- Open weights
- Yes
Best for
- Multimodal
- Local & on-device
Strengths
- Open weights
- ≈$4.80 per minute via API
- Top-5 video arena Elo
More from MiniMax
- MiniMax M3 — MiniMax. Open multimodal model built for long-horizon agentic work.