MiniMax Hailuo

Overview

Hailuo is MiniMax's video model line. On the official pricing overview fetched on 2026-10-16, the current per-second video models are MiniMax-H3 and MiniMax-H3-Max. The same page still lists clip prices for MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3, Hailuo-2.3-Fast, and Hailuo-02. This selection page uses H3 as the current meter and keeps the legacy clip prices because they are on the official page, not because they are the model you should default to. The older name Hailuo and the newer name H3 refer to one family. Say which id you are billing.

This is not a MiniMax app review. The 2026-10-16 pass for this page did not open the consumer subscribe page. The Hailuo app is /tools/hailuo, verified 2026-10-17. Yearly cards and the MiniMax API rates from that later check live on the tool page. Hosts and the official API remain the doors for the rates in the tables below.

Filter tags: text-to-video and image-to-video are true for H3 because Higgsfield's saved API catalog documents POST /minimax/h3/text-to-video and POST /minimax/h3/image-to-video, and fal documents text-to-video for Hailuo 2.3 standard and Hailuo-02 standard. The official price table itself does not label H3 rows as text versus image. The host schemas do. Native audio is false. The official page lists Audio as an input material, and that input is Free. Free input audio is not a description of generated speech or generated sound effects. Luma's pricing table prints Yes in an Audio column for Minimax H3. That column is not defined on the extract as "the model synthesizes a soundtrack." This page does not flip native_audio to true on the strength of that Yes. multi_shot is false. No multi-shot field was in the H3 schema extract. open_source is false. A weight release was not on the official price page. Third-party claims about open weights were not opened and are not adopted.

Status: the pay-as-you-go prices are public on https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview, which is where https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo redirected, HTTP 200, on 2026-10-16. That is general availability of the priced API, subject to whatever account MiniMax requires. A waitlist and a region block were not on the extracted price sections. A page last-updated line was not confirmed in the saved HTML. The verification date is the fetch date, 2026-10-16. Do not invent a September publish date from an earlier search snippet.

Specs

Version line. Prefer MiniMax-H3 or H3-Max for new spend. Keep Hailuo 2.3 and 02 in mind when a host still routes those ids. fal's fal-ai/minimax/video-01-live card is an older model at $0.50 per video. It was downloaded by mistake while looking for an H3 path. It is not H3. fal-ai/minimax-h3/text-to-video/llms.txt returned HTTP 404. The live fal cards used here are Hailuo 2.3 and Hailuo-02.

Official output list prices:

Model	Resolution	List price
MiniMax-H3	768P	$0.08 per second
MiniMax-H3	2K	$0.13 per second
MiniMax-H3-Max	480P	$0.05 per second
MiniMax-H3-Max	768P	$0.08 per second

Official input materials:

Model	Material	Rule
MiniMax-H3	Audio	Free
MiniMax-H3	Image	First 5 images free, then $0.04 each
MiniMax-H3	Video	Billed by input duration and output resolution: 2K $0.13/s, 768P $0.08/s
MiniMax-H3-Max	Audio	Free
MiniMax-H3-Max	Image	First 2 images free, then $0.074 each
MiniMax-H3-Max	Video	480P $0.0553/s, 768P $0.143/s

Regeneration: MiniMax-H3-Regeneration from 768P to 2K is $0.05 per second of regenerated output. Regeneration inputs are billed again. Audio is free. The first 5 images are free, then $0.025 each. Input video from the original 768P task is $0.05 per second. H3-Context-IR is $0.90 per million input tokens and $3.60 per million output tokens. That row is tokens, not video seconds. Do not add it to a per-second quote.

Duration, frame rate, aspect ratio, and a native output-audio switch were not on the official price table. Not observed there.

Higgsfield's H3 text-to-video schema, from the llms-full.txt snapshot saved 2026-10-16, fills some of those holes for that host only. Duration is an integer from 5 to 15, default 5. Resolution is fixed to the case-sensitive value 2K. Aspect values are auto, adaptive, 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, and 9:16. For text-only requests, auto or adaptive resolves to 16:9. The prompt must contain non-whitespace text, and the note says the provider serializer uses the first 7,000 characters. A boolean on the schema is the AIGC watermark, default false, not a generate-audio flag. Image-to-video uses the same 5 to 15 second range and the same fixed 2K resolution. The prompt is required. end_image_url is an optional last frame. The output aspect follows the input keyframe even if aspect_ratio is sent. Reference-to-video is a third endpoint in the catalog. Its full field list was not copied here.

fal Hailuo 2.3 standard text-to-video, https://fal.run/fal-ai/minimax/hailuo-2.3/standard/text-to-video: "Standard, 768p." Duration options "6" and "10", default "6". Price $0.28 per 6 second video and $0.56 per 10 second video, which matches the official legacy 768P rows. prompt_optimizer default true. No resolution enum and no aspect enum were in the portion that defines those durations. The vendor example prompt is a storm over a city. It was not run here.

fal Hailuo-02 standard text-to-video: "$0.045/sec. A single 6 second video will cost $0.27/video." Duration options include 6 and 10, default 6, and "10 seconds videos are not supported for 1080p resolution." The official Hailuo-02 768P 6-second price is $0.28, not $0.27. Both numbers are published. They are not averaged.

Legacy official clip prices, same page: Hailuo-2.3-Fast is $0.19 per 768P 6s, $0.32 per 768P 10s, and $0.33 per 1080P 6s. Hailuo-2.3 and Hailuo-02 share $0.28 per 768P 6s, $0.56 per 768P 10s, and $0.49 per 1080P 6s. Hailuo-02 also lists $0.10 per 512P 6s and $0.15 per 512P 10s. A 1080P 10-second official row was not in that list. The fal note that 10 seconds is unavailable at 1080p on Hailuo-02 is consistent with the missing official 1080P 10s price, and it is still a fal sentence rather than an official duration policy for H3.

Speech prices on the same official page, such as speech-2.6-turbo, are not video rates. Image-01 at $0.0035 per image is not a video frame price. A music-API note dated from August 20, 2026 is not a Hailuo video term.

Prompt notes

Use the host's example only as a shape. fal's Hailuo 2.3 example describes an electrical storm, camera position, and atmosphere in one paragraph. Higgsfield's H3 example is a one-line ocean wide shot. Neither was generated here. The operational limits that were printed: stay inside 7,000 characters on the Higgsfield H3 note, expect the optimizer to rewrite a 2.3 prompt when prompt_optimizer is left at its default, and do not assume a 9:16 request survives on image-to-video, because that schema says the keyframe wins.

Arena scores were not opened. Not observed.

Where to run

1. Official price overview: platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview. This is the H3 per-second list and the legacy clip list.
2. fal Hailuo 2.3 standard text-to-video: the fal model card. Legacy 768p clip prices that match the official 2.3 rows.
3. fal Hailuo-02 standard text-to-video: the fal model card. The $0.27 versus $0.28 disagreement lives here.
4. Higgsfield's catalog: POST https://api.higgsfield.ai/minimax/h3/text-to-video and the image-to-video sibling, documented in the docs snapshot. The studio product is /tools/higgsfield.
5. Hailuo app: /tools/hailuo. That page holds the subscribe cards and the MiniMax API rates from the 2026-10-17 check. This model page's prices stay the 2026-10-16 official table.

Runway's API guide, read 2026-10-16, prices hailuo3 at 10 credits per second at 768P and 15 credits per second at 2K, and h3_max at 5 credits per second at 480p and 8 credits per second at 768p. Both hailuo3 rows add 2 credits per reference image or keyframe, and they bill reference video at the same per-second rate as output, capped at 15 seconds. At $0.01 per credit the base rates derive to $0.10, $0.15, $0.05, and $0.08 per second. The $0.05 and $0.08 derived figures match official H3-Max 480P and the $0.08 H3 or H3-Max 768P rows. The derived $0.10 for hailuo3 768P does not match official H3 768P at $0.08, and the derived $0.15 for hailuo3 2K does not match official H3 2K at $0.13. Treat Runway's id as Runway's id. The guide is Runway API pricing, and the product is /tools/runway.

Luma lists Minimax H3 at 28 credits per second at 768p and 46 credits per second at 1440p (2K), audio column Yes, on lumalabs.ai/pricing. Those are Luma credits, not MiniMax dollars.

Multi-channel pricing

Official MiniMax, 2026-10-16 fetch. The per-second and per-clip tables in Specs. A 10-second H3 clip at 768P is 10 times $0.08 = $0.80 derived. A 10-second H3 clip at 2K is $1.30 derived. A 6-second legacy Hailuo-2.3 at 768P is the printed $0.28, not a per-second invention. Input images beyond the free allowance add the printed per-image fees. Input audio adds $0 on the rows that say Free.

fal legacy cards, same day. Hailuo 2.3 standard matches official $0.28 and $0.56. Hailuo-02 standard prints $0.045 per second and $0.27 per 6 seconds, which is 6 times 0.045. Official Hailuo-02 at 768P for 6 seconds is $0.28. Report the conflict. Do not "correct" fal to $0.28 or the official page to $0.27.

Runway credits. See the derived figures above. They are a third channel only after you accept they are Runway's model ids times $0.01.

Higgsfield. The H3 schema extract contains no credit or dollar field. Higgsfield's billing page says successful generations spend account credits, failed and nsfw requests are not charged, and outputs are kept at least seven days. An estimate example on that page uses Soul, an image model, and the page says the sample numbers illustrate the response format. They are not an H3 price. H3's Higgsfield dollar price is not observed.

Consumer app plans were not opened on this 2026-10-16 pass. The yearly cards, and a 2026-10-17 read of the MiniMax API rates, are on /tools/hailuo. Do not paste those app cards onto the per-second rows above.

Workflow and platform fit

Site labels only.

Faceless. H3 on Higgsfield can be asked for 9:16, 5 to 15 seconds, at a fixed 2K on that schema. Official billing can be 768P at $0.08 per second or 2K at $0.13. The Higgsfield route's fixed 2K means you may not get the cheaper 768P official tier through that schema. Native audio is not established, so a faceless voice still comes from /tools/elevenlabs, and captions from /tools/capcut.

UGC ads. Image-to-video with an optional end frame is on the Higgsfield H3 schema. Five free input images on official H3, then $0.04, is enough for a small product board before the meter starts. A talking customer is still an avatar workflow. See /models/heygen-video and /tools/creatify.

AI avatar. Not this model. Nothing in the price table describes a locked presenter.

Long-to-short. Input video is billed per second of input at the output resolution. That is a restyle or continuation meter, not a highlight cutter. Cut first, then send a short input if you use the video-input price.

Captions and cover. Not in the video schema. A cover is a separate image generation. MiniMax image-01 is priced, and it is a different model.

Voice and publish. Because output audio was not described, the publish path is silent video plus a voice track. 9:16 exists on the Higgsfield text schema and is overridden by the keyframe on image-to-video. Shorts vertical fit is real for text-to-video on that host. Confirm the official API's own aspect list before you promise 9:16 on a direct MiniMax call. That official aspect list was not on the price page. Not observed there.

Shorts vertical fit. The price is the friendly part. Eight cents per second at 768P is a low list price next to Veo standard and next to fal's Seedance 1080p figure. The missing pieces for a one-request Short are generated audio, an official duration cap, and an official aspect enum. You can still build a vertical Short by generating 5 to 15 seconds on the Higgsfield schema, adding voice and captions outside, and staying off 2K if the official 768P route is available to you.

Pros

• The official page prints a per-second H3 price, so a 10-second estimate is multiplication rather than a bundled credit guess.
• Legacy 2.3 prices on that page match fal's 2.3 standard card exactly, which is a useful cross-check.
• Image inputs include a free allowance, so a few reference frames do not automatically become a second invoice line.
• Failed-generation rules were not on the MiniMax extract. Higgsfield does state that failed and nsfw are not charged, for generations on that platform.
• 9:16 is an explicit Higgsfield H3 text-to-video value, which many price pages omit.
• Regeneration to 2K has its own lower per-second output price, so upscaling is not secretly billed as a full new 2K generation. Inputs are billed again. Read both lines.

Cons

• Official duration and aspect are not on the price page. Anyone who quotes "H3 makes 10 second 1080p clips" is importing a legacy Hailuo number or a host schema. H3's official resolutions on the price page are 768P and 2K, not a row named 1080P. H3-Max adds 480P. Higgsfield's H3 schema is 2K only.
• Native output audio was not documented. Luma's Audio Yes mark is not a substitute for that sentence.
• fal Hailuo-02 at $0.27 for 6 seconds disagrees with the official $0.28. Pick the invoice you will actually receive.
• Runway's hailuo3 derives to $0.10 per second at 768P and $0.15 at 2K. Official H3 is $0.08 and $0.13 on those rows. Host tables drift.
• The H3 fal path 404'd. You cannot cite a fal H3 schema from this pass.
• Open weights were not verified. Do not brief Hailuo as a local model from this page.
• Consumer plan allowances were not opened on this 2026-10-16 pass. The app cards are on /tools/hailuo, verified 2026-10-17. A subscriber's "unlimited" claim is not a row in the tables above.

Alternatives

• Kling costs more per second on the official 1080p audio rows and includes a documented audio price. Choose Kling when speech in the same request is required.
• Seedance reaches 30 seconds with audio included in the fal US price. H3's Higgsfield cap in the schema read here is 15 seconds, and official duration is not observed.
• Veo is the short, expensive, sound-on Google option with a GA region line.
• Luma Ray is the keyframe and EXR option, with no native audio either, and with a clearer modify story.
• Runway Gen is Runway's own model at a derived $0.12 per second base, separate from Runway's Hailuo credit rows.

Related tools

• /tools/hailuo is the Hailuo app. MiniMax API rates from the 2026-10-17 check live on that tool page. App yearly cards are not this model's per-second table.
• /tools/higgsfield hosts the H3 text, image, and reference endpoints documented in this pass.
• /tools/runway prices hailuo3 and h3_max in credits. Match the id before you compare to MiniMax's $0.08.
• /tools/capcut is the caption and cover step.
• /tools/elevenlabs is the voice step while native audio stays not observed.
• /tools/creatify and /tools/heygen cover structured ads and presenters.
• /tools/kling and /tools/seedance are the neighboring model apps when you leave the Hailuo price list.

FAQ

Is Hailuo 3 the same thing as MiniMax-H3?

On this page, yes. The official price rows use the id MiniMax-H3. Hosts sometimes say Hailuo 3 or hailuo3. Confirm the id on the invoice. Hailuo 2.3 and Hailuo-02 are older clip-priced models that remain on the same official page.

Does a second of video include sound?

Not observed as generated audio. Input audio is free on the official H3 and H3-Max rows. That is a materials rule. Plan a separate voice track if you need speech you can direct.

Why does fal say $0.27 when MiniMax says $0.28?

fal's Hailuo-02 standard card prints $0.045 per second and $0.27 for 6 seconds. The official Hailuo-02 768P 6-second row prints $0.28. Both were visible on 2026-10-16. Use the price of the host that will charge you. Hailuo 2.3 on fal matches the official $0.28 and $0.56.

Can I make a vertical clip?

On Higgsfield's H3 text-to-video schema, 9:16 is an allowed aspect. On that host's image-to-video schema, the keyframe's aspect wins. The official MiniMax price page does not list aspects. A direct-API vertical guarantee is not observed.

Is there a fal price for H3 itself?

Not from this pass. The H3 fal llms.txt path returned 404. fal prices quoted here are Hailuo 2.3 and Hailuo-02. An older video-01-live card at $0.50 per video is not H3.