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Also called Hailuo 3

MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator

Type a line, upload a photo, or drop in a reference clip. You get back a finished clip with the sound already in it.

0 / 7000

This run spends credits — the free clip is 4s · 768P · 16:9.

Sign up free and your first MiniMax H3 clip renders 4s · 768P · 16:9, with sound. A plan raises the ceiling to 15s, 2K and four at a time — the free clip is a size, not a different model.

No card: watch and hear every MiniMax H3 clip on this page with its full prompt, then sign up free and your first clip runs on MiniMax H3 itself — 4s · 768P · 16:9, with sound, yours to download and unwatermarked. Longer, 2K and the rest of H3 start at a $9.9 credit pack.

Up to 15s12 reference filesNative 2KSmooth motion, consistent characters

SIGN UP FREE · 1 CLIP · WITH SOUND

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Prompt gallery

Real clips from the MiniMax H3 AI video generator, and the full prompt behind each one

What you see is what came out — no upscaling, no grading, no second pass. Clips are cropped to fit the card and nothing else. Turn your sound on before you open one: what you hear came out of the same pass as the picture. Every card hands the MiniMax H3 AI video generator the full prompt text, not a summary, at the length and ratio the clip was made at, so you can change one line and run it again. Writing your own instead? The MiniMax H3 prompt generator builds the three-field structure H3 expects.

See all prompt ideas ↗
An elf princess in a silver battle gown cutting down orcs in daylight ruins — one continuous handheld shot from the MiniMax H3 AI video generator16:9 · 720P · 15s

The full prompt, not a summary

16:9, 30-second photoreal live-action fantasy battle in clear daylight, crisp high-resolution cinema detail, natural textures, clean HDR contrast, one wide lens and one uninterrupted controlled handheld pursuit shot. The elf princess is tall and slender, with fair freckled skin, blue-gray eyes, long wavy platinum-blonde hair, pointed ears, a silver branch circlet, and a flowing silver battle gown with a scale-textured mantle. Keep one identical princess throughout. She holds one silver longsword in…

Sound is in the prompt

No dialogue or subtitles. Daylight battle ambience, sword transients, 36 distinct contact accents, individual orc reactions, dry flash cracks, and accelerating percussion.

15s · 16:9 · 720P

One prompt, one pass — 36 separate contacts, no cut

Every one of these was run before it was published

  • A woman alone at a pavement café table on a sunlit street, generated by the MiniMax H3 AI video generatorText
    One speaker at a pavement café, tagged (S1)…0:06
  • A white sneaker spinning in mid-air as neon green paint bursts across itText
    Sneaker repaint mid-air, written as JSON…0:05
  • A rapper performs across four escalating scenes, from a sports car to a fifty-storey giant — one MiniMax H3 AI video generator runText
    Four-scene street rap, one performer…0:11
  • A vampire noble and the woman he has cornered, close, in a dark castle interiorReference
    Vampire-romance teaser, vertical, one identity held…0:09
  • Two anime rivals trading blows across an abandoned factory floor, made with the MiniMax H3 AI video generatorText
    Anime factory fight, handheld camera shake…0:06
  • An animated noir jazz title card: a spinning record, a fedora silhouette and Japanese typeVideo
    Noir jazz title card — the credits stay legible at 2K…0:15

Click any shot and its prompt drops into the box above · Nothing here was upscaled or graded

Start from a prompt that already worksBrowse all templates

What it does

What the MiniMax H3 AI video generator can do

Four things you can do with the MiniMax H3 AI video generator, and the best each one can give you. Every number below comes straight from MiniMax's API reference, so you can plan the shoot before you spend a credit.

  • Text to video

    Write the shot and the sound in one sentence.

    4-second floor is real

  • Image to video

    One photo anchors a frame. Two photos bracket the shot.

    First, last, or both

  • Reference to video

    Lock a face, a style, a camera move or a voice.

    12 files total, not 15

  • 2K output

    The result goes back through the model with your context.

    Re-generated, not upscaled

Four capabilities, and the four specifications that decide your output.

Run the MiniMax H3 AI video generator

Text to video

MiniMax H3 text to video: one line in, sound included

Write the shot and the sound in the same sentence and you get both back.
Dialogue holds up in 11 languages, spoken in the take.

Turn your words into a video with sound

Your prompt

Blue cyclorama studio, graffiti wall, drum kit, neon tubes — she looks straight into camera,
white graphic tee, oversized bomber hanging off her shoulders,
she lip-syncs the rap and hits the kit on the beat,
handheld circle, studio room tone under the track.

  • Picture
  • Sound — same sentence
258 / 7000

One pass out

A woman in a blue-lit studio rapping and playing drums, bomber jacket off her shoulders — text to video in the MiniMax H3 AI video generator

MiniMax H3 · 16:9 · 720P · 15s · 32 kHz stereo

Dialogue, speaker tags and soundscape lines in detail — MiniMax H3 text to video →

Image to video

MiniMax H3 image to video: first frame, last frame, or both

Upload one photo and it becomes the first frame — or the last one, if that is what you want.
Upload two and H3 fills in everything between them.

Make your photo move

Your photo

The still that went in: a Crimson Carnival perfume bottle among apples, cinnamon and caramel popcorn
1 image · First frame
  • 0 images = text to video
  • 1 image = one anchor
  • 2 images = a full bracket

Generated video

A luxury perfume teaser animated from one still by the MiniMax H3 AI video generator — circus backstage, then the bottle under a single spotlight

MiniMax H3 · Ratio follows your image · 9:16 · 15s

First frame: she walks through a dim circus backstage

H3 fills everything between

Last frame: the perfume bottle alone on dark velvet

First frame

Last frame

The ratio chip switches itself off because the aspect follows your image — MiniMax H3 image to video →

Reference to video

MiniMax H3 reference to video: keep the same character across shots.

Feed in images, clips and audio to lock a face, a style, a camera move or a voice.
Mix up to 12 references in one shot — 9 images, 3 clips and 3 audio.

Put your own character in every shot

Your references

  • Character reference: the same woman — black hat, white pleated skirt, two low buns

    Character

  • Product reference: the oversized golden croissant, isolated from the studio still

    Product

Generated shot

The same woman outside a bakery, hugging a giant croissant and talking to camera — one character held across shots by the MiniMax H3 AI video generator

Same face · Same product · 9:16 · 15s

12 files total — the hard cap
  • Images ≤ 9
  • Clips ≤ 3 · 2–15 s each
  • Audio ≤ 3 · WAV or MP3

Up to 12 references, mixed however you like — MiniMax H3 reference to video →

2K output

MiniMax H3 2K: re-generated, not upscaled.

768P comes straight out of the base model. For 2K, H3 sends that result back through itself with your original context and generates it again. That is why fine detail holds up — an upscaler can only guess at what was never there, and it smears. Scales, crest spines and the cracked-earth iris survive the jump.

Macro of a crested gecko at native 2K from the MiniMax H3 AI video generator — every scale and the cracked-earth iris held sharp
The same gecko frame re-generated at native 2K by the MiniMax H3 AI video generator — pebble scales, crest spines, cracked-earth iris
The same gecko frame, taken down and pushed back up — scales and iris gone soft
Upscaled — guessed at itH3 2K — re-generated

  • Skin and scales

    Upscaled

    Re-generated

  • Crest and spines

    Upscaled

    Re-generated

  • Iris and metal

    Upscaled

    Re-generated

Short edge
1440
16:9 lands at
2560 × 1440
Frame rate
24 fps
Not available
1080P · 4K

The slider and the three pairs are the same frame from the clip above. Left is that frame taken down and pushed back up, the way an upscaler sees it; right is the native 2K re-generate. Sites listing 4K for H3 do not match the published spec.

See your own shot at native 2K

Use cases

What people make with the MiniMax H3 AI video generator: product ads, dialogue scenes, ASMR, series

Six places to start. Each one drops a ready-to-run prompt straight into the MiniMax H3 AI video generator above, at the length and ratio it was made at.

  • A vertical party montage in a white hall, Earth in the window behind the dancers
    9:16 · 7–10s

    Short-form social

    Vertical 9:16, seven to ten seconds, room tone already mixed in. Post it without opening an editor.

  • A red-and-white popcorn box, logo filling the frame
    9:16 · 8s

    Product ads with sound

    One product photo in. A lit turntable shot out, with the click and the whoosh landing on frame.

  • A freckled woman mid-sentence at an outdoor cafe table
    16:9 · 6s

    Dialogue scenes

    Two speakers, tagged (S1) and (S2). Lip movement lands on the syllable, not near it.

  • Macro of an anthropomorphic mouse — every whisker and the wet nose held sharp
    16:9 · 8s

    ASMR and ambience

    No dialogue at all. Fur, whiskers, a room that sounds like a room.

  • Two models in a white studio — black structured look and white cape, same cast
    9:16 · 8s

    Character-consistent series

    Same face, same wardrobe, different shot. Reference images do the locking.

  • Anime-style welder in box-visor armour, sparks off a metal hull
    16:9 · 6s

    Remix an existing clip

    Say what changes — the product, the signage, the look — and H3 re-generates the shot, motion kept. That path is MiniMax H3 video to video

    video to video

Trying to copy a clip you saw somewhere else? MiniMax H3 video to prompt ↗ turns a link into a structured prompt you can edit and run here.

Get one of these in about 90 seconds

How to use

How to use MiniMax H3: three steps to your first clip

  1. A rain-soaked neon alley at night

    A rain-soaked alley, neon reflections on wet asphalt, footsteps and distant traffic

    PictureSound

    Describe the shot and the sound

    One sentence carries both. You never write them separately, and sound is never added afterwards.

    Same sentence · Same pass
    • 21:9 frame21:9
    • 16:9 frame16:9
    • 4:3 frame4:3
    • 1:1 frame1:1
    • 3:4 frame3:4
    • 9:16 frame9:16
    456789101112131415

    4–15s · whole seconds · 24 fps

    Pick a length and a ratio

    Any whole second from 4 to 15, at 24 fps, in six shapes. Four seconds is real — several sites still say the floor is five.

    24 fps · Six ratios
  3. A woman at a podcast desk in headphones, leaning into the microphone
    Audio track · 32 kHzCLIP-01.MP4

    Download the MP4

    The audio is already muxed in, at 32 kHz stereo, and you own what comes out.

    Native audioYours to keepFailed generation = credits returned

That is the browser path: nothing to install, no GPU, no key. The official Hailuo app, the API and the open weights each suit a different setup — the full MiniMax H3 guide compares all four ↗

Get your first MP4 — free

How it compares

MiniMax H3 vs Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0

If you are choosing between these four, this is the table you actually need. H3 is the only one of the four you can run on your own hardware, and the only one whose audio is generated in the same pass as the picture.

  • Length

    MiniMax H3
    4–15 s, any whole second
    Veo 3.1
    4, 6 or 8 s only
    Seedance 2.5
    up to 30 sBest here
    Kling 3.0
    about 10 s
    vs Veo 3.1

  • Resolution

    MiniMax H3
    768P / 2K, re-generated
    Veo 3.1
    720p / 1080p
    Seedance 2.5
    480p / 720p
    Kling 3.0
    native 4KBest here
    All four

  • Audio

    MiniMax H3
    generated in the same pass
    Veo 3.1
    yes
    Seedance 2.5
    yes
    Kling 3.0
    yes

  • Reference inputs

    MiniMax H3
    ≤9 img + ≤3 clip + ≤3 audio, ≤12 total
    Veo 3.1
    —
    Seedance 2.5
    30 img / 10 clip / 10 audio
    Kling 3.0
    —
    vs Seedance 2.5

  • Open weights

    MiniMax H3
    yes, H3-Base
    Veo 3.1
    no
    Seedance 2.5
    no
    Kling 3.0
    no

Where the others beat it: Seedance 2.5 runs to 30 seconds and takes far more reference material, and Kling 3.0 outputs native 4K. What you get instead is the combination — the only model here you can also download and run yourself, with the audio generated rather than attached. What running it here costs is on the pricing page, in credits, with the whole rate table beside it.

vs Veo 3.1
vs Seedance 2.5
vs MiniMax M3
Judge it on your own prompt

Third-party blind tests

Where MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3) places in blind tests

Artificial Analysis runs blind head-to-head preference tests with public vote counts. This is the 2026-08-13 snapshot of the With Audio boards.

  • Video editing

    First place

    #1

    9001500
    Elo
    1,125
    95% CI
    ±6
    Votes
    11,445

  • Text-to-video

    #2

    9001500
    Elo
    1,238
    95% CI
    ±9
    Votes
    7,170

  • Image-to-video

    (statistical tie)

    Top 3

    9001500
    Elo
    1,193
    95% CI
    ±9
    Votes
    5,728
    Gap to the leaders is smaller than the interval

In plain terms: of every model tested with audio, MiniMax H3 came first for video editing and second for text to video — across roughly 24,000 blind votes.

With Audio and Without Audio are separate boards, and most Elo figures quoted online never say which. This is the With Audio board, on the date shown.

Board: With Audio · Snapshot 2026-08-13 · artificialanalysis.ai

Run the #1 editing model on your prompt

Specs, checked line by line

MiniMax H3 specs: 4–15 seconds, 768P or 2K, and no 1080p

Before you plan a shot around a number you read somewhere: several of the sites ranking for the MiniMax H3 AI video generator say clips run 5 to 15 seconds, and one lists 1080p, which H3 does not have. MiniMax's API reference accepts 4 seconds and outputs 768P or 2K.

Official= verified against the primary source

Model type

omni-modal generative system

Official
Duration

4–15 s, whole seconds

Several sites list 5-15. The API reference accepts 4.

Official
Frame rate

24 fps

Official
Resolution

768P or 2K — short edge 1440

Official
Audio

32 kHz stereo, generated with the picture

Official
Dialogue languages

11

Official
Aspect ratios

21:9 · 16:9 · 4:3 · 1:1 · 3:4 · 9:16

Official
Prompt limit

7,000 characters

Official
Reference inputs

≤9 images, ≤3 clips, ≤3 audio — ≤12 files total

Official
Open weights

H3-Base only, community licence

Official

Why the H3 you run yourself looks different

H3 is not one model, it is three stages — and only the middle one is downloadable. Run it locally and you get 768P, and you write the structured prompt yourself.

H3-CONTEXT-IR

Hosted

Rewrites your prompt and references

Hosted only — not published

Open weights

H3-BASE

Downloadable

Generates 768P picture + stereo audio

The only part you can run yourself

H3-REGENERATE-2K

Hosted

Feeds the result back through with your context

Calling MiniMax H3 from your own codeOpen
Model id
MiniMax-H3
Create
POST /v2/video_generation
Poll
GET /v2/query/video_generation/{task_id}
Params
duration 4–15 (int) · resolution 768P | 2K · ratio required for text-to-video, cannot be adaptive
Common error
2013 — content must carry one non-empty text item
Two things tutorials leave out
task records survive 7 days · the returned URL expires, move the file to your own storage
Every route into the model

Got the GPU, the time and the patience for setup and debugging? Running it yourself is a genuinely good route — the MiniMax H3 open weights guide ↗ and local vs online ↗ walk it end to end. Want the output without the build, start above.

Get a clip that matches these numbers

Reviews

What reviewers are saying about the MiniMax H3 AI video generator

Independent benchmarks and the people who ran it against their own prompts in the first week.

#1 video editing · Artificial Analysis
H3 ranks #1 in Video Editing, #2 in Text-to-Video and #3 in Image-to-Video. On release it would become the strongest open weights video model, well ahead of the previous open weights leader LTX-2.3.
Artificial AnalysisArtificial AnalysisIndependent video arena · Aug 2026
See the arena ranking
  • razornerorazornero@Danzeronero · X · Aug 1, 2026
    Been testing MiniMax H3 and I'm impressed with the output quality. Native 2K, smooth motion, consistent characters, and cinematic lighting that holds up across horror, film, anime, vlog, and commercial ads. One of the most versatile AI video models I've used lately.
  • Emerald AppleEmerald Apple@AI_EmeraldApple · X · Aug 3, 2026
    For an open-weight AI video model, MiniMax H3 is pretty nuts. Way better prompt understanding compared to LTX 2.3, and it has audio unlike Wan 2.2. Camera motion, hand motion, and even fisheye in the prompt worked well.
  • Nayeem SheikhNayeem Sheikh@HeyNayeem · X · Aug 3, 2026
    I didn't expect this to be as good as it was. I gave MiniMax H3 a real project — prompt, reference images, video clip, and audio via Omni Reference. Character consistency was much better than expected, UI text stayed clean, and the output looked polished enough for ads.
  • WilzapWilzap@wilzap · X · Jul 29, 2026
    It does a smooth job with video generation. Good prompt adherence, and the audio comes out really nice. Lip sync was on point. I am impressed right off the bat with this model.
  • forvideo.aiforvideo.aiHands-on review · Aug 2026
    Text, images, video and audio go in as one unified context, and a 2K clip with stereo sound comes out in a single pass. It is a structural change rather than a spec bump.

Quotes are trimmed, never rewritten. Each one links to where it was published.

Find out if they're right — free

Pricing · 2K on every paid plan · native audio

What the MiniMax H3 AI video generator costs here,
and what you can get without paying

Is the MiniMax H3 AI video generator free? One clip is — a free account runs a real H3 clip at 4s · 768P with sound, unwatermarked, no card. After that H3 runs on credits, from $9.9. Every prompt on this site is free to copy, account or not. Every free limit, printed line by line.

Same monthly credits either way

  • FreeNo card

    One real MiniMax H3 clip, with sound. Everything past 4s · 768P runs on credits.

    $0forever

    No credit card at any point

    Start free

    Bot check only — no email

    1 clip on MiniMax H3

    MiniMax H3 · 4s · 768P · 16:9 · with sound
    Check in 7 days — 37 credits, one more clip

    Any pack from $9.9 unlocks the MiniMax H3 AI video generator — every mode, 768P and 2K

    • MiniMax H3 at native 2KPaid only
    • Native audio with the picturePaid only
    • One clip, no card
    • 1 clip at a time
    • Failed clips cost nothing
    • Private generation
    • Any pack unlocks the MiniMax H3 AI video generator on every mode

    Free is a different engine. See plans

    Speed & queue

    Queue
    Free lane
    Jobs at once
    1
    Batch
    1
    History kept
    24h · 7 days signed in
    Support
    Community
  • LiteSave 30%

    Unlock the MiniMax H3 AI video generator at native 2K. The smallest paid plan — Pro is the one most people pick.

    $16.9/mo$24.9

    $202.8 billed yearly · Save $96 a year

    7-day refund · cancel anytime

    750 credits / month · ~20 videos

    4s · 768P · text to video

    or ~13 at 4s 2K

    Same credits monthly or yearly

    • MiniMax H3 at native 2K — with native audio
    • Dialogue, effects and music in the same file
    • Up to 15 seconds15s
    • ~20 videos a month at 4s 768P, text to video
    • Failed clips cost nothing
    • 7-day refund if credits are unused
    • 1 job at a time
    • Batch 2 variants of one prompt

    Commercial use included — what that covers

    Speed & queue

    Queue
    Standard
    Jobs at once
    1
    Batch
    2
    History kept
    7 days
    Support
    Email · 48h
  • Recommended for most
    ProSave 30%

    $32 more than Lite. ~47 videos a month, same MiniMax H3 AI video generator, faster queue.

    $39.9/mo$56.9

    $478.8 billed yearly · Save $204 a year

    7-day refund · cancel anytime

    1,775 credits / month · ~47 videos

    4s · 768P · text to video

    or ~31 at 4s 2K

    Same credits monthly or yearly

    • Everything in Lite
    • ~47 videos a month at 4s 768P, text to video
    • 3 jobs at once3×
    • Video-to-prompt
    • Batch 4 variants of one prompt
    • History kept for 7 days
    • 7-day refund if credits are unused

    Commercial use included — what that covers

    Speed & queue

    Queue
    Fast
    Jobs at once
    3
    Batch
    4
    History kept
    7 days
    Support
    Email · 12h
  • StudioSave 30%

    A full month of volume, first in line, and a human who answers in 4 hours.

    $99.9/mo$142.9

    $1,198.8 billed yearly · Save $516 a year

    7-day refund · cancel anytime

    4,425 credits / month · ~119 videos

    4s · 768P · text to video

    or ~77 at 4s 2K

    Same credits monthly or yearly

    • Everything in Pro
    • ~119 videos a month at 4s 768P, text to video
    • 8 jobs at once8×
    • Batch 4 variants of one prompt
    • History kept for 7 days
    • Priority support in 4 hours
    • Lowest credit burn we offer
    • 7-day refund if credits are unused

    Commercial use included — what that covers

    Speed & queue

    Queue
    Priority — first in line
    Jobs at once
    8
    Batch
    4
    History kept
    7 days
    Support
    Priority · 4h

Pay as you go

Or buy credits once

Credits you keep for 12 months. Same MiniMax H3 as a plan: text, image, video, or reference to video, 768P and 2K. Buy as many as you like — the rate does not change.

  • Intro pack

    $9.9one-time

    250 credits

    Text, image, video, or reference to video — 768P and 2K

    ~6 videos (example: 4s 768P)

    $0.040 a credit · valid 12 months

  • Top-up 750

    $29.9one-time

    750 credits

    The same 750 credits Lite gives every month for $24.9

    ~20 videos (example: 4s 768P)

    $0.040 a credit · valid 12 months

  • Top-up 2,500

    $99.9one-time

    2,500 credits

    Text, image, video, or reference to video — 768P and 2K

    ~67 videos (example: 4s 768P)

    $0.040 a credit · valid 12 months

$0.040 a credit bought once. $0.032 on a monthly plan. $0.022 on yearly. Bigger packs do not get cheaper, because volume pricing is what a plan is. The clearest way to see it: 750 credits is $29.9 as a pack, $24.9 a month on Lite, $16.9 a month on Lite yearly.

No unlimited

There is no free unlimited MiniMax H3 AI video generator, here or anywhere. What is free here is real and published: one clip on the model itself, with sound, no card — and a check-in run that pays for one more. Spend them on the shot you actually want to see H3 make. Why no one has one →

  • Credits are printed on each card
  • Yearly gives the same monthly credits at 30% off
  • Failed generations never cost credits

Blog

Latest guides for the MiniMax H3 AI video generator

Prompt craft, sound design and the settings that actually change what the MiniMax H3 AI video generator gives you — written from real generations, not from the model card.

Make your first clip, then read upView all posts

FAQ · Before your first clip

MiniMax H3 AI video generator FAQ: is it free, does it really make sound, can it do 2K?

Everything people ask before their first clip from the MiniMax H3 AI video generator.

What is the MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator?

It is this page: a hosted, browser-only way to run MiniMax H3, the omni-modal video model MiniMax also ships as Hailuo 3. You give the MiniMax H3 AI video generator a line of text, a photo, or up to 12 reference files, and it returns 4 to 15 seconds of 24 fps video at 768P or 2K with the dialogue, sound effects and music generated in the same pass — one MP4, nothing to mix afterwards. It is independently operated rather than run by MiniMax, and that is the reason to read the rate card: MiniMax bills us at the list price published on their own site, and we charge one credit per cent of it — 8 credits a 768P second, 13 at 2K. Nothing to install, no subscription required, and a free account gets one real H3 clip with sound.

Is the MiniMax H3 video generator free to use here?

One clip is, and it is the real model. A free account gets one MiniMax H3 clip — 4 seconds, 768P, 16:9, with sound, unwatermarked and yours to download. No card. Checking in seven days pays 37 credits, which is exactly one more clip that size. Everything past that runs on credits, from $9.9. The full MiniMax H3 free breakdown is here.

Can I use the MiniMax H3 video generator with no sign-up at all?

Not for generating video — a free account is the gate, because the clip is counted per account and the hosted model bills per output second at source. Signing up is Google in one click, no email to confirm and no card. What genuinely needs no account: every clip on this page plays with its full prompt printed beside it, every prompt on the site is free to copy, and the prompt generator runs behind a browser check alone. Once you do sign up the first clip is on MiniMax H3 itself — 4s · 768P, with sound.

Is there a MiniMax H3 video generator online, with nothing to download?

That is what this is. The generator on this page runs entirely on the hosted pipeline in your browser — no install, no GPU, no API key.

Is there a free unlimited MiniMax H3 video generator? The one nobody else answers honestly

No — not here or anywhere. Every clip burns real GPU time, metered by the second: a 15-second 2K clip costs about $1.95 just to produce. Your limits are in the table above and they reset on a clock you can watch. Why unlimited is not real, with the arithmetic.

Does the free result have sound?

Yes. The free clip is MiniMax H3 itself, so the dialogue, effects and music are generated in the same pass as the picture, in 32 kHz stereo — there is no separate silent tier here any more. It is 4 seconds at 768P in 16:9, it never expires, and we do not add a watermark to anything, on any tier.

What happens if a generation fails?

Nothing is charged. Failed tasks return your credits automatically, and a failed anonymous attempt does not count against your daily clip. If you have used other AI video tools, this is the complaint you have probably lived — failed renders that still eat credits. Here they do not.

How long can a clip be?

Any whole number of seconds from 4 to 15, at 24 fps. Several sites list 5 to 15; MiniMax's API reference accepts 4.

Can the MiniMax H3 video generator output 2K?

Yes — 768P and 2K, nothing above. 2K is not an upscale: H3 re-generates from your original context, which is why small on-screen text survives. Short edge is 1440, so a 21:9 clip lands around 2976 × 1248.

Does it really generate sound, or is it dubbed?

Generated. Picture and 32 kHz stereo come out of the same pass — dialogue, effects and music. Dialogue is stable in 11 languages. No on/off switch, no separate charge.

Can I make a video from text alone?

Yes — text to video is the default tab. No image or reference material needed: describe the shot and the sound in one prompt, pick an aspect ratio, and generate.

How many reference files can I add?

Up to 9 images, 3 clips and 3 audio files — but no more than 12 files in total. That last cap is the one most guides leave out. Audio references take WAV or MP3.

Is MiniMax H3 open source?

Partly. The H3-Base FL2VA and Ref2VA checkpoints are open weights, but Context-IR and Regenerate-2K stay hosted, and the licence is not a standard open-source licence.

Can I use the videos commercially? Yes — on every plan

Yes, on every plan including the free one. Clips here are generated through MiniMax's API, and MiniMax claims no rights over the Outputs you generate — this site passes that through: no watermark on any tier, no per-clip royalty, no separate licence to buy. The prompts you write are yours as well, to run anywhere. What this site cannot do is speak for MiniMax — it is an independent third-party interface, so the model licence itself is MiniMax's to state.

Is MiniMax H3 the same as Hailuo 3, and is this the official site?

Same model, two names: H3 in the model card and the API, Hailuo 3 in the product line. Hailuo AI is MiniMax's consumer app and Hailuo 2.3 is an earlier model. This site is a third door onto the same H3 — independently operated, browser-only, and priced per second rather than per subscription, so the model you get is identical and only the way in differs.

How long does one clip take to generate?

Usually about a minute and a half for a 768P clip, longer for 2K and longer again at peak times. We do not quote a number we cannot hold to, so the counter next to the progress bar shows real elapsed time rather than a fake countdown.

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Written and maintained by the MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator editorial teamPublished Last updated Tool version 2026.09.4