# Replicate — Which MiniMax H3 model should you use?

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2026-11-03
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- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/which-minimax-h3-model
- Record: https://forck.live/items/31120-which-minimax-h3-model-should-you-use
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: minimax/h3-highspeed, minimax/h3-lite, minimax/h3
- Pricing: A 10-second clip at 768P costs $0.60, $0.40, or $0.80 depending on which one you pick; At 2K, a 10-second H3 clip is $1.30; Lite is the cheapest of the three, at $0.04 per second at 768P and $0.025 at 480P; A hundred 10-second clips at 768P come to $40 on Lite, $60 on Highspeed, and $80 on H3; Every clip below is 5 seconds at 2K, which costs $0.65

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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replicate.com/blog/which-minimax-h3-model:

> MiniMax’s H3 family has three video models on Replicate: minimax/h3-highspeed , minimax/h3-lite , and minimax/h3 . A 10-second clip at 768P costs $0.60, $0.40, or $0.80 depending on which one you pick. Our suggestion is to start with Highspeed, drop to Lite when you’re generating lots of options, and move up to H3 when you need 2K or the shot is hard.
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> Prices are from the model pages on October 31, 2026. At 2K, a 10-second H3 clip is $1.30.
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> The three share the same inputs otherwise. They all make clips from 4 to 15 seconds, and they all do text-to-video, image-to-video from a first and optional last frame, and generation guided by image, video, or audio references.
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> The example videos below come from the model pages. They use different prompts, and one of them starts from an image, so you can’t line them up as a fair comparison.
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> Start with Highspeed
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> Highspeed is the one to iterate with. MiniMax pitches it as a balance between quality and speed, and it keeps the full set of reference inputs. It only outputs 768P.
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> A hummingbird hovers beside a bright orange hibiscus flower in a sunlit garden, wings a soft blur, shallow depth of field, slow push in

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