US company and open video weights: H3 is out, three others differ

A company in the United States cannot take the MiniMax H3 open weights under MiniMax's Community License, because that license currently excludes the EU, UK, US and South Korea. HunyuanVideo, Wan 2.2 and LTX-2.5 do not exclude the US by name, but each carries its own conditions. The table below reads each vendor's own license text as of 2026-10-08. It is a reading aid, not legal advice.

The question usually arrives as 'which open video model can we run in our own cloud account'. The territory line decides that before VRAM does, so check it first.

Territory and threshold by model

Each row quotes the vendor's own page or license file. The Wan 2.2 row rests on its README, which states Apache 2.0, and on the standard Apache License text in its LICENSE.txt.

What the H3 exclusion means in practice

MiniMax's own FAQ says the exclusion is 'not yet' rather than 'not ever', and that the hosted API is available globally. It also says organizations in excluded regions can apply for a formal license for reviewed deployments. So a US team has two documented routes: apply for that license, or call H3 as a hosted service.

Sume lists two H3 ids in its video catalog, minimax-h3 and minimax-h3-max. They are hosted jobs on Sume's API, so no weights are downloaded or run by you. Sume does not list HunyuanVideo or LTX-2.5 in its video catalog, and it lists Wan 3.0 (wan-3.0), not Wan 2.2.

Hosted prices for the two H3 ids and Wan 3.0

Sume's docs say it bills the provider list price times 1.25 on each model. At those rates a five-second clip costs the amounts below, which is the number to weigh against GPU rental and engineering time.

For a five-second clip that is $0.375 on minimax-h3 at 768p, $1.00 on minimax-h3-max at 1080p, and $0.625 on wan-3.0 at 720p. Sume reserves the Sume price at submit and returns a job to poll, as the video docs describe.

Checks before you pick a route

Short list for a US engineering lead:

• Confirm with counsel whether your entity falls under each size threshold, counting affiliates where the license says so (the LTX text aggregates subsidiaries and affiliates).
• If you choose H3 weights anyway, treat the US exclusion as a blocker until MiniMax grants a formal license.
• If you only need clips, not a model you operate, compare the table above against your monthly clip count.
• Record which license version you downloaded under. LTX changed its license on August 11, 2026.