# Hailuo AI > MiniMax's video and image generator, running its H3 model Hailuo AI is MiniMax's web and Android app for turning text, images and reference clips into short videos and images. It runs MiniMax's own H3 model, which makes video with sound at up to 2K and edits or restyles clips from a written instruction, and it offers ready-made effect templates for social posts. Generations are paid in credits from a subscription. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** MiniMax - **Website:** https://hailuoai.video - **Runs on:** Web, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Hailuo AI's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **MiniMax H3 video model:** Generates video with native stereo sound, up to 15 seconds long at 2K, from text, images or a mix of references, including multi-shot clips. - **Omni Reference:** Combine reference images, video and audio in one prompt, for example borrowing a camera move from one clip and a character from an image. - **Editing by instruction:** H3 edits and restyles existing clips and transfers motion from one video to another, with the change described in plain language. - **Image generation:** A separate Create Image mode turns prompts into still images, alongside text-to-video and image-to-video. - **Effect templates:** The home page offers trending preset templates such as PetPal, Style Switch, CineScope and ASMR for quick themed creations. ## Good for - Short social clips with sound from a prompt or a photo - Mixing several reference images and clips into one video - People who want to try MiniMax's H3 model in a ready-made app ## Worth knowing - Plan prices could not be read: the plan list did not load for our reader. The site header shows plans from $9.99 a month, and third-party guides disagree on the tiers. - The site links to an iOS app, but its US App Store page returned not found on October 17, 2026; the Android app is on Google Play. - MiniMax also sells H3 in its separate MiniMax Design app, which a site banner promotes with 3,000 free credits for downloading it. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Hailuo AI is MiniMax's app for its H3 video model: clips with sound up to 15 seconds at 2K, from text, photos or a mix of references. It's quick for social posts, with templates to start from. We couldn't read its plan prices, though, and its iPhone app wasn't on the US App Store. - **Value for money: C.** No plan prices could be read: the plan list didn't load for our reader, and third-party guides disagree. The site's header says plans start at $9.99 a month, but with nothing to check that against, it stays a C. - **Free plan and trial: C.** New accounts get free credits on sign-up, but the amount isn't shown until you're signed in. MiniMax's separate Design app offers 3,000 free credits for downloading it. - **Features: C.** H3 makes clips with sound up to 15 seconds at 2K, mixes image, video and audio references, edits clips by instruction and makes images. But it runs MiniMax's own model only, with no partner models, API or plugins on record. - **Ease of use: C.** No app-store rating on record. Effect templates make quick clips easy, but mixing several references into one scene takes practice. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and an Android app on Google Play. The site links an iPhone app, but its US App Store page came back not found, and no integrations are listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hailuo AI's and MiniMax's own pages on 17 October 2026. Its plan list would not load for our reader when we went back to check it. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Hailuo AI's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 6 of the 21 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 6 of 21) and worst on features (C, above 1). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Hailuo AI you would be making a video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 14 of the 21 other AI image and video generators grade higher. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: A real app for Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** AI features, Video generation, Image generation, Templates ## Alternatives - [PixVerse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pixverse): AI video app built on PixVerse V6, with templates and an agent. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hailuo-vs-pixverse) - [Pika](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pika): Video, image and sound apps built on Pika and partner models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hailuo-vs-pika) - [Runway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/runway): AI video, image and audio studio with its own Gen-4.5 model. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hailuo-vs-runway) - [Luma](https://toolgpa.com/tools/luma-dream-machine): Creative agents for video and images, built on Luma's Ray models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hailuo-vs-luma-dream-machine) - [Higgsfield](https://toolgpa.com/tools/higgsfield): AI video and image suite with its own studios and many models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hailuo-vs-higgsfield) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://hailuoai.video/subscribe - https://hailuoai.video - https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 - https://www.minimax.io - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.hailuo.video&gl=US&hl=en - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hailuo-video/id6741675037 Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/hailuo Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).