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 video-to-video motion transfer.
The model is suited for commercial creative workflows across advertising, e-commerce, gaming, and interface design, with native audiovisual output for reference-driven generation.
Modalities
Price
from $0.13/second
Released
Jul 29, 2026
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
| $0.13 | 287.4s |
End-to-end latency
287.40s
P50, best provider
100.00%
92.87%
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.
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 video-to-video motion transfer.
H3 costs $0.13/second for Video Output and $0.04/image for Reference Image (first 5 free).
H3 generates video at 2K, supports 5–15 second clips, covers the 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4 and 9:16 aspect ratios, can be steered with a first frame and last frame image and produces a matching audio track.
H3 accepts text, images, video and audio as input and returns video.
H3 Max and Hailuo 2.3 are other video models from MiniMax.
H3 was released on July 29, 2026.