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GuidesHow to use MiniMax H3: five routes into the same model
There is no single H3 app. It is one model behind five doors, and they differ by setup time, by price, and by whether the licence lets you walk through at all.
Aug 13, 20268 min readEditorial desk
GuidesMiniMax H3 open weights: what is public, and what the licence actually restricts
Two checkpoints are public and two stages are not. The licence carries a clause most coverage misses — it reaches the finished video, not just the weights.
Aug 12, 20268 min readEditorial desk
GuidesMiniMax H3 in ComfyUI: the version, the files, and the flag that stops the OOM
Native nodes shipped in 0.30.0. The fix that stops it running out of memory shipped in 0.32.0, and most guides still stop at 0.30.0. Here is the current state, with pull request numbers.
Aug 11, 20269 min readEditorial desk
GuidesMiniMax H3 local vs online: the requirement nobody quotes is a number of minutes
Every requirements table answers how much memory it takes to load. The thing that stops people is that the same 480p job runs in 182 seconds on one machine and 90 minutes on another.
Aug 10, 20268 min readEditorial desk