minimax
MiniMax: H3
minimax/hailuo-3
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
According to the OpenRouter catalog, MiniMax: H3 (minimax/hailuo-3) is a lightweight, open-weights MiniMax model that accepts text, image, audio, or video input and produces video. The catalog presents it as designed for precise multimodal editing and controlled generation, including instruction-guided edits and text or brand rendering. These are source-reported capabilities, not measured results; this source pack supplies neither an independent model card nor comparative evaluation data.[1]
Strengths
Limitations
Where to use it
- Potentially useful for prototype pipelines that turn multimodal prompts into video; validate quality on target workloads.[1]
- Potentially relevant for instruction-guided video edits and controlled text or brand rendering, subject to practical testing.[1]
- Potentially relevant for teams seeking an open-weights video model, after independently confirming licensing and deployment needs.[1]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · MiniMax: H3Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
MiniMax H3 is a lightweight, open-weights video generation model from MiniMax. It is designed for precise multimodal editing and controlled content generation, including instruction-guided edits, text and brand rendering, and...
Specifications
- Model ID
- minimax/hailuo-3
- Canonical ID
- minimax/hailuo-03-20260730
- Creator
- minimax
- Added to OpenRouter
- 29.07.2026
- Context length
- 0
- Modality
- text+image+audio+video->video
- Input modalities
- text, image, video, audio
- Output modalities
- video
- Token pricing
- No per-token price in the source snapshot — see OpenRouter for the billing unit
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | — |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | — |
| Writing | No measurement | — |
| Reasoning | No measurement | — |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | input: image |
| Image generation | No measurement | — |
| Audio | No measurement | input: audio |
| Video | No measurement | input: video · output: video |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
No evaluations are supplied for this model.
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimax | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026