MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 at 56 cents vs H3 at 80 cents, 10 seconds of 768P

On MiniMax's pay-as-you-go page, a 10-second 768P clip costs $0.56 on MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3, $0.32 on Hailuo 2.3 Fast and $0.80 on the newer MiniMax-H3. H3 is 1.43 times the price of Hailuo 2.3 and 2.5 times the price of Fast. The Hailuo models sit under a Legacy Models heading on the page, with fixed prices per clip rather than per second.

Per second, the same data

Dividing the legacy prices gives $0.0467 per second for 2.3 at 6 seconds (0.28 / 6) and $0.056 for 10 seconds (0.56 / 10); Fast is $0.0317 and $0.032. A 10-second Hailuo 2.3 clip is therefore dearer per second than a 6-second one, while still cheaper in total. H3 is flat at $0.08 per second at 768P and $0.13 at 2K, and H3 Max is $0.05 at 480P and $0.08 at 768P. By that measure H3 Max at 768P also costs $0.80 for 10 seconds.

H3 is not a drop-in cheaper replacement. The page prices H3 inputs separately (first 5 images free, then $0.04 each) and bills reference video by duration, which the legacy rows do not mention.

What Sume lists

Sume's video catalog lists minimax-h3 and minimax-h3-max, not Hailuo 2.3. For 10 seconds at 768p, minimax-h3 is 10 x $0.075 = $0.75 and minimax-h3-max is 10 x $0.10 = $1.00. So the cheapest MiniMax-family option on Sume for 10 seconds is $0.75; if you want Hailuo 2.3 pricing, you need MiniMax directly.

When the older model is enough

The pages do not measure quality, so the price gap alone cannot say whether H3 is worth 24 cents more per 10 seconds. A fair test is to run the same five prompts on both and compare outputs by eye. Five 10-second clips cost 5 x $0.56 = $2.80 on Hailuo 2.3 and 5 x $0.80 = $4.00 on H3, so the whole test costs $6.80.

Runway's view of the same family

Runway's model page lists hailuo3 with prices starting at $0.10 per second and h3_max from $0.05 per second, and its pricing guide bills hailuo3 at 768P at 10 credits per second plus 2 credits per reference image or keyframe. That is $0.10 per second against MiniMax's $0.08, so a 10-second 768P clip is $1.00 on Runway before any image fee, and $1.02 with a start frame. Hailuo 2.3 is MiniMax-direct pricing on the page above; this post does not claim a Runway price for it.

Cost of the gap at volume

The 24 cent gap between Hailuo 2.3 ($0.56) and H3 ($0.80) on a 10-second 768P clip becomes $24.00 over 100 clips, and $2,400 over 10,000. Against Hailuo 2.3 Fast ($0.32) the gap is 48 cents a clip. Because the legacy rows may be retired, check the page again before you commit a long project to them.