MiniMax H3 — AI Video Generation with Native Audio
Turn text, images, video and audio references into up to 15 seconds of 2K footage with synchronized stereo sound. MiniMax H3 follows complex instructions and keeps your product, logo and typography consistent — built for ads, e-commerce and brand work.
What is MiniMax H3?
MiniMax H3 is the omni-modal video generation model released by MiniMax on July 31, 2026, with open weights following on August 3. It is the third generation in the Hailuo line after Hailuo 01 and Hailuo 02 — the community also calls it Hailuo 3.0. Instead of treating text, images, video and audio as separate inputs, H3 reads them in one multimodal context and generates up to 15 seconds of video at up to 2K, with native stereo sound produced in the same pass.
H3 does not try to out-render cinematic models frame by frame. Its bet is different: understand complex instructions, keep every element of your source material under control, and deliver picture and sound together. That makes it a natural fit for commercial packaging work — ads, e-commerce videos, brand assets, UI and game promos. Creators consistently highlight its text and logo stability: turning a poster into a motion ad or animating typography at a level competing models struggle to match.
On the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, MiniMax H3 ranks #1 in video editing, #2 in text-to-video and #3 in image-to-video — the first openly downloadable model to top a category there. The 768p H3-Base checkpoint is open source with Day-0 support across Hugging Face, ComfyUI, vLLM and major hardware vendors, while 2K output runs through the hosted H3-Regenerate-2K pipeline.
How to Create Videos with MiniMax H3
From a blank prompt or a folder of brand assets to a finished clip with sound — in four steps.
Add your references (or start from text)
Upload up to 9 images, 3 video clips and 3 audio tracks — 12 files max. Product shots, brand color cards, reference footage and background music can all steer the result. No references? Plain text-to-video works too.
Write the prompt
Describe the scene, camera moves and dialogue. MiniMax H3 reliably handles dialogue in 11 languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic.
Pick duration and frame
Choose 4 to 15 seconds at 24 FPS, in aspect ratios from 21:9 cinematic to 9:16 vertical — 16:9, 4:3, 1:1 and 3:4 included.
Generate, then upscale to 2K
Preview at 768p, then let H3 regenerate the result at 2K using the full original context — real regeneration that recovers small text and fine detail, not a blur-and-sharpen upscale.
Why Creators Choose MiniMax H3
Four capabilities that set MiniMax H3 apart from other AI video generators.
Omni-modal references
Mix images, video clips and audio in one request. Real-world tests show multi-reference runs — product photo plus color card plus reference footage plus soundtrack — hold consistency noticeably better than single-reference generations.
Native stereo audio
Sound is not an afterthought: 32kHz stereo audio is generated in the same pass as the video, synchronized from the start. No separate dubbing or alignment step.
Text & logo stability
H3's standout strength. Poster-to-motion ads, animated logos and on-screen typography stay legible and on-brand — the kind of visual packaging work reviewers say competing models can't yet match.
True 2K regeneration
Instead of a super-resolution filter, H3 feeds the 768p result back through the model with the original context and regenerates at 2K — recovering details that upscalers can only guess at.
Subscription Plans
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Free
- 3.5 credits
- Up to 1 image at 1K resolution
- 1 parallel task
- All-in-one multi-model support
- Text & Image to Image
Pro
Billed annually
- 800 credits/month
- Up to 266 images/month at 1K
- 3 parallel tasks
- All-in-one multi-model support
- Text & Image to Image
- Priority generation queue
- No watermark
- Commercial license
- Early access to new models
Lite
Billed annually
- 300 credits/month
- Up to 100 images/month at 1K
- 2 parallel tasks
- All-in-one multi-model support
- Text & Image to Image
- Priority generation queue
- No watermark
- Commercial license
- Early access to new models
One-time Credit Packs
Top up when you need extra generations, without starting a subscription.
Small Pack
- 300 credits included
- Valid for 365 days
- Includes all Lite subscription features except credits
Medium Pack
- 800 credits included
- Valid for 365 days
- Includes all Lite subscription features except credits
Large Pack
- 1800 credits included
- Valid for 365 days
- Includes all Lite subscription features except credits
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MiniMax H3 — Frequently Asked Questions
Specs, licensing, pricing and honest limitations — everything you need to know before you build with MiniMax H3.