MiniMax H3
Vendor-sourced facts
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | MiniMax [1] |
| Licence | Open weights (MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement; weights published at huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3) [1] |
| Modes | Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Video edit [1] |
| Release | 2026-07-31 [1] |
| Max resolution | 2K [1] |
| Max clip duration | 15 s [1] |
| Native audio | Yes [1] |
| Access | API, web app, open weights [1] |
| Vendor page | https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 [1] |
Arena rating: no votes yet. Nothing on this page is a score, a rank or a measurement by us — every value is what MiniMax publishes, with the page it came from listed under Sources.
On Design Arena's video board MiniMax H3 appears as “MiniMax H3”: Elo 1280 · #9 of 48 · win rate 63.7% ± 1.2% · 5,850 votes (3,725W 2,125L) · avg 219.0s.[2] These are their voters' numbers, not this arena's — our own arena has no votes yet.
Source: Design Arena (designarena.ai/leaderboard/video), checked 2026-10-21.
About MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 is one of three open-weights models in this catalogue: the weights are published on Hugging Face under MiniMax's own community licence, so you can run it yourself as well as calling the hosted API. For anyone comparing self-hosting against an API bill, that single fact outranks most of the rest of the table.
MiniMax states a 2K ceiling, fifteen-second clips, all three modes and native stereo sound — a combination no other open-weights entry here matches. [1] Open weights also change what a leaderboard means: a community licence lets people fine-tune and quantise the model, so a vote on a hosted H3 clip is a vote on one particular deployment of it.
“H3 understands unified context across text, images, video, and audio, generating video with native stereo sound, up to 15 seconds at 2K resolution.”
MiniMax on MiniMax H3 [1]
Want hands-on context before trusting anyone's ranking? Generate your own clips with a multi-model workflow on AIContentDrop: see our notes on MiniMax's earlier model · cost out a credit-based run.
Sources
- MiniMax — MiniMax H3, vendor documentation https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 — checked 2026-10-06
- Design Arena — video leaderboard https://www.designarena.ai/leaderboard/video — checked 2026-10-21
Each [n] above is the vendor page the fact beside the marker was read from, on the date shown. Where a vendor states nothing, the table says “Not stated” and no value is inferred from anywhere else.