Cheapest at your usage
$3/mo
fal · Pay as you go
For 10 videos a month, 5 s each
Channels that sell it
9
Subscriptions: 6 · APIs: 3
Official specs
2K · 4–15 seconds
Last confirmed
Sep 17, 2026
Next review Oct 17, 2026
A video model from MiniMax (the company behind Hailuo), listed in Luma's official rate table. Audio is included by default, up to 1440p (2K). It is the default model in the generator on Hailuo's own homepage, and PixVerse's site has a page for it too.
Cheapest place to buy it at your volume
50 seconds of generation a month: 10 videos × 5 seconds each × 1 (average attempts per video). At least 720p, no audio needed. Change usage ↗
| Where to buy | Setting | How to buy | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| fal API | 768p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go $0.06 per second | $3 |
| MiniMax API CN API | 768p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go ¥0.50 per second | ¥25 |
| MiniMax API API | 768p Not specified · Per second | Pay as you go $0.08 per second | $4 |
| Luma Subscription | 768p With audio · Per second | Plus plan uses 14% of the plan's credits | $30 |
Does the cheapest way to pay change with volume?
One line per channel: an API is a straight line; a subscription is the cheapest plan that covers the month, so it climbs in steps and stops past the largest plan (extra credit packs are not counted).
At 10 videos a month, each channel costs:
- fal · API$3/moCheapest
- MiniMax API CN$3.75/mo
- MiniMax API$4/mo
- Luma · Subscription$30/mo
- 1–1,000 videos a month: fal · API is cheapest
- 1,001–1,071 videos a month: Luma · Subscription is cheapest
- 1,072–1,250 videos a month: fal · API is cheapest
Official specs
| Clip length | 4–15 seconds |
|---|---|
| What it can do | Text to video, Image to video, First/last frame, Reference to video |
| Highest resolution | 2K |
The official API docs state: 768P or 2K, 4 to 15 seconds, with text-to-video, image-to-video (first frame, last frame or both) and multimodal reference-to-video (reference image, video or audio); image-to-video and reference-to-video cannot be combined. The docs do not say whether the output carries audio.
From MiniMax's own page, confirmed on Sep 20, 2026. This is what the model can do; whether a given channel sells it, and at which settings, is in the prices below. Official spec page
Third-party blind-vote ranking
| Name on the leaderboard | Category | Rank | Elo score |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax H3 | With audio | #4 | 1220 |
| MiniMax H3 | No audio | #3 | 1302 |
The text-to-video board of the Artificial Analysis Video Arena: people watch two clips, pick the better one without knowing which model made it, and the votes give an Elo score. The rank is the model's place in the board's default view (current models), and names are written as the board writes them; checked Sep 26, 2026. Scores move every week and are a guide to quality only. See the leaderboard ↗
Where it is available
| Tool | Type | Lowest monthly price | Price status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luma | Creative agent and video generation | $30 | Price verified |
| Hailuo AI | Creative shorts | — | Current price not published |
| PixVerse | Creative shorts | $10 | Manually recorded price |
| Krea | Multi-model platform | $9 | Manually recorded price |
"Lowest monthly price" is the cheapest confirmed monthly plan for that tool. It does not mean that plan includes this model — premium models are often limited to pricier plans. Each tool's official pricing page is the authority.
Pay-as-you-go API prices
| API provider | API model name | Resolution | Audio | Official price | Per second | Minimum per generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fal | minimax/h3/text-to-video | 480p | Not specified | $0.05/s | $0.050 | — |
| fal | minimax/h3/text-to-video | 768p | Not specified | $0.06/s | $0.060 | — |
| MiniMax API CN | MiniMax-H3 | 768p | Not specified | ¥0.50/s | $0.075 | — |
| MiniMax API | MiniMax-H3 | 768p | Not specified | $0.08/s | $0.080 | — |
| MiniMax API CN | MiniMax-H3 | 1440p (2K) | Not specified | ¥0.80/s | $0.120 | — |
| fal | minimax/h3/text-to-video | 1440p (2K) | Not specified | $0.13/s | $0.130 | — |
| MiniMax API | MiniMax-H3 | 1440p (2K) | Not specified | $0.13/s | $0.130 | — |
| fal | minimax/h3/text-to-video | 4K | Not specified | $0.16/s | $0.160 | — |
Prices as each provider's official pricing page states them, confirmed Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026. No subscription: you pay for the seconds generated. Prices exclude tax.
Mainland China subscriptions (yuan)
| Subscription | Resolution | Audio | Per second | Lowest monthly price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hailuo CN | 768p | Not specified | 7 shells/s | ¥65 |
| Hailuo CN | 1440p (2K) | Not specified | 12 shells/s | ¥65 |
| Jimeng CN | 768p | Not specified | 13 Credits/s | ¥69 |
| Jimeng CN | 1440p (2K) | Not specified | 25 Credits/s | ¥69 |
Copied from the official subscription pages, confirmed on Sep 19, 2026. Each month's credits last until used up, and bigger plans cost less per second; the calculator works out which plan covers your usage.
How much MiniMax H3 video the credits buy
On Luma
| Resolution | Audio | Billing | Credits per second | Plus 10,000 credits | Pro 40,000 credits | Ultra 150,000 credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 768p | With audio | Per second 28 credits | 28 | 357 s ≈35 clips of 10s | 1429 s ≈142 clips of 10s | 5357 s ≈535 clips of 10s |
| 1440p (2K) | With audio | Per second 46 credits | 46 | 217 s ≈21 clips of 10s | 870 s ≈86 clips of 10s | 3261 s ≈326 clips of 10s |
Rates come from Luma's official pricing page; seconds are the plan's credits divided by the rate. That is the ceiling if you do nothing else — credits also go to images, voice, upscaling and more, so the real total is lower. Where a model has several rows, the vendor prices clip lengths separately — the per-second rates really differ; it is not a typo. Models without an exact official rate we could find are left out; we don't estimate for them.
This model is included in plans on Hailuo AI, PixVerse, Krea, but we found no exact official rate for it there, so no durations are listed — we don't estimate on a vendor's behalf.
How the status is checked
Whether a model still runs is checked separately from prices: prices change monthly, but a model can disappear between two price syncs, quietly making every page that mentions it wrong. So each model record has its own confirmation date and review deadline; overdue records are flagged, never assumed to still be running.
Last confirmed on Sep 17, 2026; due to be rechecked by Oct 17, 2026.
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