MiniMax H3 Max Generates 15-Second Videos in 13 Seconds, Per ASCII.jp
fal's MiniMax H3 Max undercuts the official Hailuo.ai generation time by a factor of roughly 36 and beats Seedance 2.0 on price per second, making high-speed video AI far more accessible.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
The video generation AI MiniMax H3, released as an open-weight model on August 3, has spawned rapid community updates. The AI cloud service fal developed MiniMax H3 Max, which generates 15-second videos in about 13 seconds while maintaining quality. It offers 5-second videos free up to five times daily, with Japanese prompt support, and costs $0.08 per second at 768p, a 50% off sale until September 1.
The open-weight release of MiniMax H3 on August 3 triggered a wave of community and official updates. The most striking is MiniMax H3 Max from fal, which turns out 15-second clips in about 13 seconds. On fal's service, typing a Japanese prompt yields a 5-second video in roughly 3.3 seconds. The same generation on Hailuo.ai, MiniMax's official service, takes about two minutes.
fal achieved the speedup by post-training H3 specifically for H3 Max, reducing inference steps while avoiding quality loss. The service lists 768p at $0.08 per second, with 15 seconds at $1.20, half off until September 1. That compares with Seedance 2.0's $0.30 per second for audio-included generation. According to an AI performance comparison site, H3 Max even surpassed Seedance 2.0 in the image-to-video with audio category.
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