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MiniMax H3

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Description

MiniMax H3 is an open multimodal model from MiniMax that creates video with native stereo sound (32 kHz). Clips run from 4 to 15 seconds, the base resolution is 768p, and 2K is produced by a separate H3-Regenerate-2K module. Modes include text-to-video, image-to-video (including first and last frame) and omni-reference mode with up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips. The model voices dialogue in 11 languages, including Russian. Inside are a 33-billion-parameter transformer and an encoder based on Qwen3-VL-32B. The prompt-preparation module H3-Context-IR is not part of the open release. The weights are published on Hugging Face under the MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement. Per the license text, there are territorial restrictions, check the license, and products with yearly revenue above 20 million US dollars need written permission from MiniMax; other terms are in the license file in the model repository. The author does not state hardware requirements; the deployment example uses 4 GPUs. You can try it without installation in the Hailuo AI app from the same developer, which is in our catalog: Hailuo AI.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Video with stereo sound in one model
  • Text-to-video, image-to-video and omni-reference modes
  • Dialogue in 11 languages, including Russian
  • Up to 2K through a separate module
  • Hailuo AI app from the same developer for trying it without installation

Cons

  • Per the license text, there are territorial restrictions, check the license
  • Per the license text, products with yearly revenue above 20 million US dollars need permission from MiniMax
  • The H3-Context-IR module is not part of the open release
  • The author does not state hardware requirements; the example uses 4 GPUs

Key facts

License
MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement
Commercial use
Allowed with restrictions
Developer
MiniMax
Interface languages
English
Checked on
Oct 17, 2026

Editorial score

How strongly the AI Expertise editors recommend this open model for each of its tasks right now, on a 0–10 scale. The score combines output quality, capabilities, ease of launch, license openness and freshness.

Video

7.5 / 10
Output quality 9.7
Low High
Features 9.5
Basic Rich
Ease of launch 4.5
Hard Easy
License openness 4.0
Restricted Open
Freshness 10.0
Outdated Fresh