Free · no account · the file is yours

Make a video free —
then hear what MiniMax H3 adds

Q: Is MiniMax H3 free?

Partly — and the free part is the real model. A free account gets one MiniMax H3 clip on sign-up — 4 seconds, 768P, 16:9, with dialogue and sound generated in the same pass — and one more on each of the day-2 and day-7 check-ins. No card, and the clips never expire. Without an account: one clip of your own on a separate free engine, silent, plus every prompt on this site. Paid, from $9.9: the rest of MiniMax H3 — clips up to 15 seconds, 2K, six aspect ratios, batches, and video or reference inputs. The cheapest paid H3 clip is 18 credits, or four seconds at 768P. If another site says H3 itself generates free without limit, check which model is behind the button.

Write one line below and a clip comes back, yours to download and unwatermarked. No email, no card, nothing to install. Dialogue, sound effects and 2K arrive with MiniMax H3 itself, from $9.9 with a seven-day refund.

No card at any point
No watermark on any tier
A failed clip costs nothing
Independent third-party interface

The file is yours
Download it from the result panel. Take it before you close the tab — an anonymous clip is cleared after 24 hours, a signed-in one after 7 days.
Sound arrives with MiniMax H3
Free runs Agnes Video V2.0 at 16:9 and 5 seconds, picture only. Dialogue, effects and music are generated with the frame on H3, from $9.9.
Retries are free
A generation that fails costs nothing and leaves your free clip untouched. Signing in takes you to three a day at up to 10 seconds.

What the paid engine adds

Hear what MiniMax H3 adds: sound from the same pass

Write the shot and the sound in one sentence and both come back together.
Dialogue holds up in 11 languages, spoken in the take rather than dubbed over it.

See what a paid clip costs

One prompt, both channels

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.

The free lane reads this
MiniMax H3 reads this as well

258 / 7000

What MiniMax H3 returned

A woman in a blue-lit studio rapping and playing drums, bomber jacket off her shoulders — text to video in MiniMax H3, with the track generated in the same pass

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

Take the sound away and you are looking at a free clip. Putting MiniMax H3 back adds three things you can point at: 32 kHz stereo generated with the frame, clips up to 15 seconds instead of 5, and 2K in any of six aspect ratios rather than 16:9 alone.

Where free stops

MiniMax H3 free: what costs nothing, and what the rest costs

Make your first clip Or see the full price table

Every figure below has a reset time or a source
Last verified 2026-08-31

A woman alone at a pavement café table on a sunlit street, speaking — generated by MiniMax H3 with dialogue and street tone in the same pass — Open it with your sound on: the line she speaks and the street behind her were generated in the same pass as the picture. This one is a MiniMax H3 render we published — the clip you can keep is the one you make in the panel above.

Free · no card at any point

One clip of your own, yours to download
No account
A browser check is the only gate — no email, no card. It runs on Agnes Video V2.0: 16:9, 5 seconds, picture only, unwatermarked, and the file is yours.
Three a day once you sign in
Free account
Same engine, up to 10 seconds, history kept 7 days, counter resets at 00:00 UTC. Signing up also hands you a real MiniMax H3 clip — 4s at 768P, with sound — and two more for checking in on day 2 and day 7.
Every prompt on this site
No account
Printed complete, free to copy, edit and take anywhere. The prompt generator that writes them in H3's official field order is free too, and writing a prompt never spends a credit.
The open weights, on your own GPU
Self-host
H3-Base is downloadable and the licence charges nothing: 42.47 GB, 768-class output, available outside the US, the EU, the UK and South Korea.

Nothing here carries a watermark, on any tier. Output from this site is licensed for personal and evaluation use; commercial rights come from MiniMax directly, through Hailuo or the official API.

Paid · MiniMax H3 itself

Sound in the same pass as the picture
From $9.9
Dialogue, effects and music at 32 kHz stereo, generated with the frame. Eleven languages hold their lip sync.
4 to 15 seconds, 768P or 2K
2K is re-generated from your original context, which is why small on-screen text survives it. Six aspect ratios, 24 fps.
Text, image, video or reference in
Every input mode on every plan, and up to 12 reference files in one shot. Every plan runs the full H3 — moving up buys more credits, a faster queue and a lower cost per clip.

$9.9 buys 750 credits, valid 12 months, with no subscription first. The cheapest H3 clip is 18 credits — four seconds at 768P — and the first purchase is refundable for seven days.

The numbers

What "MiniMax H3 free" reaches, row by row

Two rows are worth reading together. A free account gets three real MiniMax H3 clips, and three free-engine clips every day. The H3 clips are fixed at four seconds, 768P, 16:9 — the cheapest job the model will take — and they arrive one at a time: one on sign-up, one when you check in on day 2, one on day 7. The daily three are a different engine, silent, and never touch the H3 count.

UTCEvery daily counter resets at 00:00 UTC

Clips with no account

Lifetime, not daily

Clips signed in

3 a day

Resets 00:00 UTC

Clips per network

8 a day

Shared across every account on one IP

What the free lane runs

Agnes Video V2.0 for the daily three

The 3 sign-up and check-in clips run MiniMax H3 itself

Free clip length

5s · 10s signed in

Free clip picture

up to 1152 × 768

Free clip sound

Picture only on the daily three

The 3 MiniMax H3 clips come with sound

Watermark

None, on any tier

Keeping your free clip

Download it

Held 24h anonymous · 7 days signed in

Failed generations

Cost nothing

Free and paid alike

Free MiniMax H3 clips

3 per account

1 on sign-up · 1 on day 2 · 1 on day 7 · 4s · 768P · with sound · never expire

Cheapest MiniMax H3 clip

18 credits

4s · 768P · the model's own floor

Smallest paid step

$9.9 · 750 credits

Valid 12 months, no subscription

Licence on output here

Personal and evaluation

Commercial rights come from MiniMax

The daily free clips run Agnes Video V2.0, silent. The three sign-up and check-in clips run MiniMax H3 itself, with sound, at 4s · 768P · 16:9. Everything past those — longer, 2K, other ratios, batches, video and reference inputs — runs on credits.

See the full price table

Three routes

Three ways to run MiniMax H3 free, and who each one actually suits

There are three routes to H3 that cost no money, and they suit three different people. Pick the row that describes you rather than the column with the lowest number.

Suits you if
The free lane here
You want a clip in the next minuteStart here
MiniMax's own API
You are wiring H3 into your own product
Self-hosted open weights
You own a fast card and generate daily
Cash cost
The free lane here
$0No card
MiniMax's own API
$0.08–$0.13 per output second
Self-hosted open weights
$0 in licence fees
What actually runs
The free lane here
Agnes Video V2.0
MiniMax's own API
MiniMax H3, all three stages
Self-hosted open weights
H3-Base only
Sound with the picture
The free lane here
Arrives with H3
MiniMax's own API
Yes
Self-hosted open weights
Yes
2K output
The free lane here
Arrives with H3
MiniMax's own API
Yes
Self-hosted open weights
Not at any hardware budget
Why
Clip length
The free lane here
5s · 10s signed in
MiniMax's own API
4–15s
Self-hosted open weights
4–15s
What it asks of you
The free lane here
A browser checkNothing to install
MiniMax's own API
An API key and a billing profile
Self-hosted open weights
42.47 GB, drivers and a canvas
Time per clip
The free lane here
Under a minute
MiniMax's own API
30–90 seconds
Self-hosted open weights
182 seconds to 90 minutes
Measured
Where you may use it
The free lane here
Personal and evaluation
MiniMax's own API
Under MiniMax's own terms
Self-hosted open weights
Outside the US, EU, UK and South Korea
The clause

The three free routes to MiniMax H3 compared
What is being compared	The free lane here	MiniMax's own API	Self-hosted open weights	Read more
Suits you if	You want a clip in the next minuteStart here	You are wiring H3 into your own product	You own a fast card and generate daily
Cash cost	$0No card	$0.08–$0.13 per output second	$0 in licence fees
What actually runs	Agnes Video V2.0	MiniMax H3, all three stages	H3-Base only
Sound with the picture	Arrives with H3	Yes	Yes
2K output	Arrives with H3	Yes	Not at any hardware budget	Why
Clip length	5s · 10s signed in	4–15s	4–15s
What it asks of you	A browser checkNothing to install	An API key and a billing profile	42.47 GB, drivers and a canvas
Time per clip	Under a minute	30–90 seconds	182 seconds to 90 minutes	Measured
Where you may use it	Personal and evaluation	Under MiniMax's own terms	Outside the US, EU, UK and South Korea	The clause

Self-hosting is genuinely the right call for a particular person: your material cannot leave your network, you want to fine-tune, or you own a fast card and generate every day — and you live outside the US, the EU, the UK and South Korea, which the community licence excludes for the finished videos as well as the weights. If that is you, the weights are free and they are good. If it is not, the price you would pay is 42.47 GB, a driver stack, and three minutes to ninety per clip for a 768-class picture: only H3-Base was published, so Context-IR and Regenerate-2K stay hosted and 2K is not a problem more hardware solves. A summary, not legal advice.

The licence, clause by clause

Local vs hosted, in minutes per clip

Rates are MiniMax's published pay-as-you-go figures · last verified 2026-08-31

The unlimited question

Is there a free unlimited MiniMax H3 video generator?

No — and the arithmetic behind that is worth two minutes, because it is also what to check on any site that says otherwise.

Every MiniMax H3 second is bought from a GPU before it reaches you. MiniMax's published pay-as-you-go rate is $0.08 per output second at 768P and $0.13 at 2K, so a fifteen-second 2K clip costs about $1.95 to produce — before bandwidth, before storage, and before the three or four attempts creators commonly report per clip they keep. A site offering unlimited free H3 is doing one of three things, and it is worth knowing which: throttling somewhere it has not told you, serving a cheaper model behind the H3 name, or running out of runway.

Our free lane is a different engine and costs us nothing per second, so GPU price is not what caps it. One shared quota serves everyone who walks in: three clips per account per day, eight per network per day, one job at a time, and a sitewide ceiling a busy afternoon can reach. Those are the four numbers, they all reset at 00:00 UTC, and the interface names which one you hit rather than showing a generic error.

One route genuinely has no ceiling, and it is the third column above: download the open weights and generate until your electricity bill objects. The ceiling has moved onto you — 42.47 GB, a 768-class picture at any hardware budget, three minutes to ninety per clip, and a licence that covers you only outside the US, the EU, the UK and South Korea. Unlimited exists. It is bought with time and hardware instead of money.

For everyone else the useful version is this: a ceiling with a clock on it is one you can plan around. Every figure in this section is in the table above with its reset time attached, and the page changes when the figure does.

MiniMax API rate, 768P
per output second
$0.08
MiniMax API rate, 2K
per output second
$0.13
A 15-second 2K clip, at cost
before bandwidth, storage or retries
$1.95
Free clips per account
resets 00:00 UTC
3 / day
Free clips per network
shared across accounts on one IP
8 / day
Attempts per keeper
commonly reported by creators
3–4

Before you type anything

Your prompt, your uploads, your clip:
where each one goes

A free tier is a fair place to ask what is being taken instead of money. Here is what happens to each of the three things you hand over — on the free lane specifically, not only on paid.

What happens to what you make

Private by default, free or paid.
Your clips stay yours unless you publish them. The free lane is not a public gallery.
Your prompts train nothing.
They stay here and go nowhere else. There is no model on this site to train them on.
Reference uploads live as long as the job.
Then they are dropped.
Downloading is what keeps a clip.
Free clips are held 24 hours anonymous, 7 days signed in. Take the file before you close the tab.
One click deletes a clip, or the account.
Gone in the interface. Cleared from backups within 7 days.

What the free lane asks of you

A browser check, and that is the gate.
No email and no card for the first clip. The check exists because the shared pool is finite.
Your network counts as one visitor.
Free clips are capped per IP per day, which is why a busy office or campus can run out before you do.
Signing in asks for an email and stops there.
A free account stores no card, because there is nothing on it to charge.
Prompts pass the same content policy as paid.
One rule across both lanes, published in full.
Straight to the clip.
No newsletter opt-out to hunt for, and no upsell screen between you and the result.

Full privacy policy · content policy · terms

If free is not enough

Moving up is reversible:
seven days, and failed clips never cost credits

Two promises that make the first paid clip a smaller decision than it looks: seven days to change your mind, and a clip that fails never spends anything.

How a refund works

First plan or first pack. Once per account.

You pay
Your first MiniMax H3 plan or pack — the smallest is $9.9.
7 days, unused
Those credits are still sitting there.
Full refund
No reason needed. We process in one business day.

If a clip fails

Every plan, including free. No form.

The job fails
Error, timeout, or blocked.
Credits come back
You will see no credits were used on the job.

The one condition

The credits from that purchase must still be unused.

Who
First plan or first pack, once per account
When
Within 7 days of the charge
Condition
Those credits are untouched
How
Request refund in your account, or email us
You get
The full amount. Banks take 5 to 10 days

The whole policy in plain words: refund policy.

FAQ · MiniMax H3 free

MiniMax H3 free: the questions people ask first

What to check before your first clip.

Is MiniMax H3 free?

Partly — and the free part is the real model. A free account gets one MiniMax H3 clip on sign-up — 4 seconds, 768P, 16:9, with dialogue and sound generated in the same pass — and one more on each of the day-2 and day-7 check-ins. No card, and the clips never expire. Without an account: one clip of your own on a separate free engine, silent, plus every prompt on this site. Paid, from $9.9: the rest of MiniMax H3 — clips up to 15 seconds, 2K, six aspect ratios, batches, and video or reference inputs. The cheapest paid H3 clip is 18 credits, or four seconds at 768P. If another site says H3 itself generates free without limit, check which model is behind the button.

Can I use MiniMax H3 free with no sign-up at all?

Yes, for one clip. A browser check is the only gate — no email, no card — and the file is yours to download. That clip runs on Agnes Video V2.0 at 16:9 and 5 seconds. A new MiniMax H3 clip always needs an account somewhere, on any site, because the hosted model bills per output second at source. The generator is at the top of this page if you would rather test that than read it.

Is there a free unlimited MiniMax H3 video generator? Worth two minutes

No. A fifteen-second 2K H3 clip costs about $1.95 in GPU time at MiniMax's published rate, so unlimited free H3 is a countdown rather than a business model. The free lane here is capped too, on shared capacity rather than cost: three clips per account per day, eight per network per day, one job at a time, all resetting at 00:00 UTC. The one route with no ceiling is self-hosting the open weights, which buys it with 42.47 GB, a 768-class picture and a licence covering four fewer territories.

Does the free clip have sound?

The free MiniMax H3 clips do — a free account gets three, each 4 seconds at 768P with dialogue, effects and music at 32 kHz stereo generated in the same pass as the frame, which is what makes lip sync hold in eleven languages. The daily free-engine clips are picture only: Agnes Video V2.0 renders the frame and nothing else. The band above lets you take the audio off a real H3 clip so you can judge the difference rather than take a description of it.

Is there a MiniMax H3 free trial?

Yes, in clips rather than days: a free account gets one MiniMax H3 clip the moment it is verified — 4 seconds, 768P, with sound — and two more for checking in on day 2 and day 7. That is the trial, and it is the same model the paid plans run, capped at the smallest job it takes. After that the smallest step is a $9.9 credit pack — 750 credits, valid twelve months, no subscription, and refundable for seven days while the credits are untouched.

What does a free sign-up actually get me? Three real H3 clips, not credits

Three MiniMax H3 clips and a saved history. Each H3 clip is four seconds at 768P in 16:9, with the audio rendered in the same pass — the cheapest job the model will take, and the same model the paid plans run. They arrive one at a time: one the moment the account is verified, one when you check in on day 2, one on day 7. On top of that a free account gets three clips a day on the free engine, which is a different, silent model and spends none of the H3 clips.

Can I download what I make for free, and is there a watermark?

Yes to the download, and nothing this site produces is branded, on any tier. The download button is on the result panel and it is the first action there. Timing is the thing to know: an anonymous clip is cleared after 24 hours and a signed-in one after 7 days, so downloading is what keeps it.

Is MiniMax H3 free to download and run locally?

The weights are downloadable and the licence charges nothing, which makes it a real option for the right setup. Two things decide whether it is yours: H3-Base is the only stage published, so you get a 768-class picture and write your own prompt structure in place of Context-IR; and the community licence covers you outside the US, the EU, the UK and South Korea, with the same clause reaching the videos you make. The smallest download is 42.47 GB. The clause-by-clause read is here.

Can I use free clips commercially?

Output from this site is licensed for personal and evaluation use, on every tier. Commercial rights come from MiniMax directly, through Hailuo or the official API, where they are granted by the party that owns them. The prompts are the exception — those are free to copy, edit and use anywhere, including commercially.

What happens when I hit the free limit?

The interface names the limit you reached and when it clears. There are four: your own three a day, your network's eight a day, a slice of the shared pool reserved for visitors who cleared a browser check, and the sitewide pool. All four reset at 00:00 UTC. A paid plan draws on none of them, which is why paid clips never queue behind free ones.

Is Hailuo 3 free? Is it the same as MiniMax H3?

Same model, two names: H3 in the model card and the API, Hailuo 3 in MiniMax's product line — so the answer is the same one above. The model is paid wherever it runs, because it bills per output second at source. Worth keeping straight: Hailuo AI is MiniMax's consumer app and Hailuo 2.3 is the previous generation. Free allowances on MiniMax's own products move often, so read them there rather than trusting a figure cached on a page like this one.

What is the cheapest way to actually run MiniMax H3?

A $9.9 credit pack: 750 credits, valid twelve months, no subscription, with every input mode and both resolutions unlocked. At the pack rate a four-second 768P clip is 18 credits, so that is three clips to begin with. Generating regularly gets more credits per dollar from a yearly plan — the arithmetic is on the pricing page. Failed clips return their credits on every plan, and a first purchase is refundable for seven days while the credits are untouched.

Last verified 2026-08-31

Start

One sentence, no account, and the file is yours

Make a clip on the free engine and keep it. MiniMax H3 is there when you want the sound — from $9.9, refundable for seven days.

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Written and maintained by the MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator editorial teamPublished 31 August 2026Last updated 2 September 2026

Make a video free — then hear what MiniMax H3 adds