Generally available (public pay-as-you-go API; open-weight H3-Base checkpoints on Hugging Face)[1]
MiniMax's general-purpose multimodal model: clips of up to 15 s[2] at 2K resolution with native stereo sound[1], billed per second on the MiniMax platform API from $0.08/s[3] at the 768P tier[3]. It ranks first[4] on LMArena's image-to-video leaderboard with a score of 1495[4], and open-weight H3-Base checkpoints are published on Hugging Face[5].
Pricing
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| API price, 720p with audio (per second) | $0.08/s (— 768P)[3] |
| API price, 1080p with audio (per second) | $0.13/s (— 2K)[3] |
| API price, 4K (per second) | No public data |
| API billing basis | Pay-as-you-go per second of output, by resolution: 768P $0.08/s, 2K $0.13/s (H3-Max variant: 480P $0.05/s, 768P $0.08/s). Input audio free; first 5 input images free, then $0.04/image. Prepaid video packages do not support H3.[3] |
| Cheapest paid consumer plan | No public data |
| Consumer plan ladder | No public data |
| In-app cost per second | No public data |
| Free tier | No public data |
Output specs
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Max length, single generation | 15 s (MiniMax H3)[2] |
| Max length with extensions | No public data |
| Max output resolution | No public data |
| Frame rate | 24 fps (MiniMax-H3 (Hugging Face model card))[5] |
| Aspect ratios | 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16 and more (API: common ratios or adaptive; input aspect ratio must be within 2:5–5:2)[5] |
| Max reference inputs per generation | 12 (— reference generation)[2] |
Features
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Native audio | Yes (MiniMax H3)[1] |
| Lip-sync | No public data |
| Text-to-video | Yes (MiniMax H3)[2] |
| Image-to-video | Yes (MiniMax H3)[2] |
| First / last frame control | Yes (MiniMax H3)[2] |
| Multi-shot in one generation | Yes (MiniMax H3)[1] |
| Video editing | Yes (MiniMax H3)[1] |
| Video extension | No public data |
Access
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available (public pay-as-you-go API; open-weight H3-Base checkpoints on Hugging Face)[1] |
| Public API | Yes (MiniMax platform API)[3] |
| Where to use it | MiniMax platform API (platform.minimax.io, pay-as-you-go); open-weight H3-Base checkpoints on Hugging Face (MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3) for self-hosting; H3-Max speed variant also priced on the MiniMax platform[5] |
| Regional limits | No public data |
| Release date | 2026-07-31 (MiniMax H3)[1] |
Public leaderboards
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| LMArena text-to-video score | 1460 ±9 (minimax-h3)[6] |
| LMArena text-to-video rank (of 48) | #8 (minimax-h3)[6] |
| LMArena image-to-video score | 1495 ±5 (minimax-h3)[4] |
| LMArena image-to-video rank (of 48) | #1 (minimax-h3)[4] |
| VGI-Bench overall score | No public data |
Where MiniMax H3 appears on this site
Minimax H3 vs Kling 3.0 · Minimax H3 vs Veo 3.1 · Alternatives guides
All head-to-head comparisons
Kling vs Veo 3 · Veo 3 vs Sora · Sora vs Kling · Seedance 2.5 vs Sora 2 · Kling 3.0 vs Seedance 2.5 · Veo 3.1 vs Seedance 2.5 · Kling 3.0 vs Runway Gen-4.5 · Veo 3.1 vs Runway Gen-4.5 · Luma Ray3.2 vs Kling 3.0 · Minimax H3 vs Kling 3.0 · Minimax H3 vs Veo 3.1 · Wan 3.0 vs Kling 3.0 · Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0 · Veo 3.1 vs Veo 3.1 Lite · PixVerse V6 vs Kling 3.0 · Vidu Q3 vs Kling 3.0
Evidence
Only official sources are cited: vendor pages, and leaderboard publishers for their own rankings. Anything we could not find on such a page is shown as “No public data”.
- MiniMax — 'MiniMax H3' launch announcement — MiniMax. www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3. Checked 2026-10-07
- MiniMax API Docs — Video Generation guide — MiniMax. platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/video-generation. Checked 2026-10-07
- MiniMax API Docs — Product Pricing (overview) — MiniMax. platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview. Checked 2026-10-07
- Arena (arena.ai) — Image-to-Video Leaderboard — arena.ai. arena.ai/leaderboard/image-to-video. Checked 2026-10-07
- Hugging Face — MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 model card (vendor-published) — MiniMax (MiniMaxAI on Hugging Face). huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3. Checked 2026-10-07
- Arena (arena.ai) — Text-to-Video Leaderboard — arena.ai. arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-video. Checked 2026-10-07