MiniMaxMiniMax H3 Fast API Pricing Per Second
MiniMax H3 Fast costs $0.0369–$0.0546 per second of generated video, by resolution. That's up to 32% below the official MiniMax H3 API price. Billed by the second, with nothing added per request.
- Per second from
- $0.0369
- 480P
- At 480p
- $0.0369/s
- official MiniMax H3 API $0.05/s
- Per minute from
- $2.22
- 480P
- Below official
- up to 32%
- vs. official MiniMax H3 API
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Per second
MiniMax H3 Fast price per second by resolution
Our price with the official MiniMax H3 API price struck through, and what a minute of output costs.
| Resolution | Per second | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
480p | $0.0369 With a monthly plan: Pro $0.0352Max $0.0335 | $2.22 |
768p | $0.0546 With a monthly plan: Pro $0.0518Max $0.049 | $3.28 |
Monthly plans lower prices on most models (shown under each price); you can still pay as you go. Pro $499/month · Max $4,999/month.
- Official MiniMax H3 API: MiniMax's official H3 API price at the same resolution, platform.minimax.io (MiniMax sells no H3 Fast, so this is the reference: MiniMax H3 768P $0.08 / s; at 480P, MiniMax H3 Max 480P $0.05 / s, MiniMax's only official 480P H3 tier). Verified October 18, 2026; our prices are live.
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What MiniMax H3 Fast costs for your volume
Pick a resolution and clip length and a monthly volume. Every figure is a live quote, so per-clip billing is exact.
Per month · 100 generations
18.45
$25.00 at the official minimax h3 api price
- Per clip
- 0.19
- Per kept clip
- 0.19
- Saved per month
- $6.56
- Saved per year
- $78.68
Live prices · failed generations are free
Per clip
From per second to per clip
Every common clip length at 480p and 768p.
| Clip length | 480p | 768p |
|---|---|---|
| 4 s | $0.15 | $0.22 |
| 5 s | $0.19 | $0.28 |
| 8 s | $0.30 | $0.44 |
| 10 s | $0.37 | $0.55 |
| 12 s | $0.45 | $0.66 |
| 15 s | $0.56 | $0.82 |
With reference video
Per billed second with a reference video
Reference video seconds are billed together with the output, at this rate. Example: 5 seconds of output with a 5-second reference is 10 billed seconds.
| Resolution | Official MiniMax H3 API | CheaperGen | 5 s + 5 s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 480P | $0.05/s | $0.0369/s | $0.37 |
| 768P | $0.08/s | $0.0546/s | $0.55 |
- Unit. One second of generated video. A request for 4–15 s is billed for exactly that many seconds at its resolution's rate.
- Reference videos. Their seconds are billed together with the output, at the reference rate (from $0.0369/s at 480P).
- Tasks. Text to video, image to video and reference to video share the same per-second rates.
- No request fee. Nothing is added per request: a clip costs its seconds times the rate.
- Failed = free. Failed generations, and jobs cancelled while queued, are refunded in full.
- Price first. POST /v1/quote/minimax/h3-fast/text-to-video returns the exact price of any request, free.
Compare
MiniMax H3 Fast per second vs other video APIs
Every video model we offer at 480p, cheapest first — each at its lowest silent price for that resolution. MiniMax H3 Fast is number 2 of 9.
| # | Model | Tier | Audio | Per second | Official MiniMax H3 API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance | 480p | Audio included | $0.0292/s | |
| 2 | MiniMax H3 Fast MiniMax | 480P | — | $0.0369/s | |
| 3 | Wan 3.0 Alibaba | 480p | Audio included | $0.0379/s | |
| 4 | MiniMax H3 Max MiniMax | 480P | — | $0.0396/s | |
| 5 | Seedance 2.0 Fast ByteDance | 480p | Audio included | $0.0501/s | |
| 6 | Wan 3.0 Prime Alibaba | 480p | Audio included | $0.0582/s | |
| 7 | Seedance 2.0 ByteDance | 480p | Audio included | $0.0631/s | |
| 8 | Grok Imagine Video 1.5 xAI | 480p | Audio included | $0.0736/s | |
| 9 | Seedance 2.5 ByteDance | 480p | Audio included | $0.0935/s |
Price per second is one input; quality, speed and features differ. Models that include audio are compared with it.
MiniMax H3 Fast is an accelerated build of MiniMax H3, which is developed by MiniMax; the acceleration is not a MiniMax release. CheaperGen does not own the model. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.