From the source
Replicate is telling users which of
MiniMax's three H3 video models to pick, matching each to a job rather than ranking them.
- A 10-second clip at 768P costs $0.60 on minimax/h3-highspeed, $0.40 on minimax/h3-lite and $0.80 on minimax/h3, with prices taken from the model pages on October 31, 2026.
- Replicate suggests starting with Highspeed, dropping to Lite when generating lots of options, and moving up to H3 when 2K is needed or the shot is hard.
- All three take the same inputs, making clips of 4 to 15 seconds and supporting text-to-video, image-to-video from a first and optional last frame, and generation guided by image, video or audio references.
- Highspeed is pitched by MiniMax as a balance of quality and speed and keeps the full set of reference inputs, but only outputs 768P.
- Lite is the cheapest, at $0.04 per second at 768P and $0.025 at 480P, and Replicate says to pick it to save money rather than time, since a 5-second Lite clip and a 5-second Highspeed clip both took about 21 seconds on the model-page examples.
- H3 is the only one that outputs 2K and the only one whose resolution defaults to 2K, which Replicate says matters when watching costs; a 10-second 2K clip is $1.30, and a 5-second 2K clip is $0.65.
