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@heyshrutimishra claims MiniMax H3 is “the first real editor” because it edits an…

2026-07-31 · 08:55 UTC ·@heyshrutimishra ·2 min read

Brief

MiniMax H3 is framed as a category shift from generation to instruction-based editing: it accepts multimodal inputs to edit existing clips in one API call, produces 5–15s 24fps outputs with native audio, and was evaluated at 2K for $0.13/sec. Artificial Analysis ranks it top in Video Editing and notes planned open weights under a community license.

Why it matters

@heyshrutimishra claims MiniMax H3 is “the first real editor” because it edits an existing clip on instruction in one call, unlike other top models that generate from a blank slate.

Key details

  • MiniMax H3 (successor to the Hailuo family) accepts text, images, video, and audio, generates 5–15s clips at 24fps with native audio, and is available via the Hailuo AI app and MiniMax API at $0.13/sec for 2K ($7.80/min; 768p tier $0.09/sec coming).
  • Artificial Analysis ranks H3 #1 for Video Editing (#2 Text-to-Video, #3 Image-to-Video); MiniMax plans to release weights under the MiniMax Community License permitting commercial use for orgs under $20M with attribution, which would make it the leading open-weights video model.
Source evidence

H3 is the first real editor

Every other top model i know generates from a blank slate but this one i realised takes an existing clip and edits on instruction in one call.

That's a different product category tbh.

The tools doing this work right now are After Effects and DaVinci Resolve but they take technical operators & hours of iteration. H3 compresses that to a prompt, at $0.13 per second of 2K video. 👏

Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys)

MiniMax H3 is #1 in Video Editing and ranks top 3 in both Text to Video and Image to Video on Artificial Analysis. MiniMax plans to release its weights under the MiniMax Community License, which would make it the leading open weights model by far

MiniMax H3 is the latest video model from MiniMax and the successor to their Hailuo family. The model has a multimodal architecture, accepting text, images, videos, and audio clips as input to generate 5-15s clips at 24fps with native audio generation. Video input support also makes MiniMax H3 one of the few models capable of instruction-based video editing, where it takes the #1 spot in our Video Editing Leaderboard. The model is also #2 in Text to Video, and #3 in Image to Video.

MiniMax H3 is available now in the Hailuo AI app and via the MiniMax API. MiniMax lists MiniMax H3 at $0.13 per second of 2K video ($7.80 per minute), with a 768p tier at $0.09 per second ($5.40 per minute) marked as coming soon in their documentation. The first five reference images are free, with each additional image at $0.04 and reference audio free. Our evaluation was conducted on the 2K tier.

At $7.80 per minute with audio, MiniMax H3 at 2K ($7.80/min) undercuts Dreamina Seedance 2.0 1080p ($22.45/min), HappyHorse-1.1 ($9.90/min), and Kling 3.0 1080p ($20.16/min), but is still at a premium over Google’s Gemini Omni Flash at $6.00/min.

MiniMax plans to release the weights under the MiniMax Community License, which permits commercial use for organizations under $20M in revenue, subject to prominent attribution requirements. If released, MiniMax H3 would become the strongest open weights video model, well ahead of the previous open weights leader LTX-2.3.

We’ll be sharing more insights into our evaluation soon - congratulations to @Hailuo_AI on the release!

See below for comparisons between MiniMax H3 and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Video Editing Arena 🧵

— https://nitter.net/ArtificialAnlys/status/2083042088338538594#m