MiniMax H3 Open Weights Text to Video generates coherent videos from text prompts, with 480P / 768P output, native stereo audio, 5-15 second duration, flexible aspect ratios, and per-second billing. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Idle
$0.2per run·~50 / $10
A young woman in her early 20s sits in the front seat of a moving roller coaster car, calm and slightly bored, hair whipping in the wind. Beside her sits a middle-aged man wearing what looks like a normal full head of hair. Behind them, another car with a woman is visible. The coaster drops and banks hard.
A tired restaurant chef standing inside a dark kitchen after closing, staring at a tiny medieval kingdom built across his preparation table, miniature castles made from bread, tiny knights riding across vegetables, glowing fires inside small houses, whimsical cinematic fantasy, realistic food textures, warm lighting.
Run the open-weights edition of MiniMax H3 on WaveSpeedAI's own GPU infrastructure. This endpoint is separate from the official minimax/h3 API: same model family, independently hosted, with its own 480p/768p resolutions and per-second pricing.
MiniMax H3 is an omni-modal video model that generates picture and native stereo audio in a single pass — dialogue, sound effects, and music are produced together during generation, never added as a separate dubbing step. Describe both the visuals and the sound in one prompt and the model delivers a finished MP4 with a matching soundtrack.
H3 responds to prompts written as a timeline with a schedule, not a one-line description. The strongest prompts layer these blocks:
Audio: line with entrance cues: "Audio: soft piano from 0s, a cello joins at 4s, gentle room tone throughout." Omit this and the model picks a soundtrack for you.Tips
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| prompt | Yes | Scene, action, camera movement, and an Audio: line for the soundtrack. |
| aspect_ratio | No | 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9, or 9:21. Default: 16:9. |
| resolution | No | 480p (faster, lower cost) or 768p (native canvas). Default: 480p. |
| duration | No | Output length in seconds, 3–15. Default: 5. |
| seed | No | Fixed seed for reproducible output. |
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Output | MP4 with native stereo audio |
| Frame rate | 24 fps |
| Resolution | 480p or 768p |
| Duration | 3–15 seconds (snaps to the model's frame grid, so a 5s request lands at ~5.2s) |
| Seed | Supported |
Billed per generated second:
| Resolution | Price per second | 5s | 15s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 480p | $0.04 | $0.20 | $0.60 |
| 768p | $0.10 | $0.50 | $1.50 |
Grab a WaveSpeedAI API key, then call POST https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/wavespeed-ai/minimax-h3/text-to-video with your input as JSON. The endpoint returns a prediction id. Start polling the result endpoint around every 2 seconds, increase the interval for long-running tasks, and stop on any terminal status. On completed, read output values from data.outputs. Examples for Minimax H3 Text To Video below.
set -euo pipefail
: "${WAVESPEED_API_KEY:?Set WAVESPEED_API_KEY}"
REQUEST_BODY=$(cat <<'JSON'
{
"prompt": "A cinematic shot of a city at sunset, soft golden light",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution": "480p",
"duration": 5,
"seed": -1
}
JSON
)
# 1. Submit the prediction.
SUBMIT_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
-X POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/wavespeed-ai/minimax-h3/text-to-video" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY" \
-d "$REQUEST_BODY")
TASK=$(printf '%s' "$SUBMIT_RESPONSE" | jq 'if has("data") then .data else . end')
PREDICTION_ID=$(printf '%s' "$TASK" | jq -r '.id')
if [ -z "$PREDICTION_ID" ] || [ "$PREDICTION_ID" = "null" ]; then
printf 'Submission response did not contain a prediction id
' >&2
exit 1
fi
RESULT_URL=$(printf '%s' "$TASK" | jq -r '.urls.get // empty')
if [ -z "$RESULT_URL" ]; then
RESULT_URL="https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/$PREDICTION_ID/result"
fi
# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while true; do
RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body "$RESULT_URL" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY")
RESULT=$(printf '%s' "$RESPONSE" | jq 'if has("data") then .data else . end')
STATUS=$(printf '%s' "$RESULT" | jq -r '.status')
case "$STATUS" in
completed) printf '%s\n' "$RESULT" | jq '.outputs'; break ;;
failed|cancelled|timeout) printf '%s\n' "$RESULT" | jq . >&2; exit 1 ;;
created|processing) sleep 2 ;;
*) printf 'Unexpected status: %s
' "$STATUS" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
doneconst submitUrl = "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/wavespeed-ai/minimax-h3/text-to-video";
const apiKey = process.env.WAVESPEED_API_KEY;
if (!apiKey) throw new Error('Set WAVESPEED_API_KEY');
async function requestJson(url, options = {}) {
const response = await fetch(url, options);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text());
return response.json();
}
// 1. Submit the prediction.
const body = await requestJson(submitUrl, {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"prompt": "A cinematic shot of a city at sunset, soft golden light",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution": "480p",
"duration": 5,
"seed": -1
}),
});
const task = body.data ?? body;
if (!task.id) throw new Error("Submission response did not contain a prediction id");
const resultUrl = task.urls?.get ||
`https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${task.id}/result`;
// 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while (true) {
const resultBody = await requestJson(resultUrl, {
headers: { "Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}` },
});
const result = resultBody.data ?? resultBody;
if (result.status === "completed") {
console.log(result.outputs);
break;
}
if (["failed", "cancelled", "timeout"].includes(result.status)) throw new Error(JSON.stringify(result));
if (!["created", "processing"].includes(result.status)) throw new Error("Unexpected status: " + result.status);
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000));
}import json
import os
import time
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
api_key = os.environ["WAVESPEED_API_KEY"]
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
payload = {
"prompt": "A cinematic shot of a city at sunset, soft golden light",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution": "480p",
"duration": 5,
"seed": -1
}
def request_json(url, data=None):
request = Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method="POST" if data else "GET")
with urlopen(request) as response:
return json.load(response)
# 1. Submit the prediction.
body = request_json("https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/wavespeed-ai/minimax-h3/text-to-video", json.dumps(payload).encode())
task = body.get("data", body)
if not task.get("id"):
raise RuntimeError("Submission response did not contain a prediction id")
result_url = task.get("urls", {}).get("get") or f"https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{task['id']}/result"
# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while True:
result_body = request_json(result_url)
result = result_body.get("data", result_body)
status = result.get("status")
if status == "completed":
print(result.get("outputs", []))
break
if status in {"failed", "cancelled", "timeout"}:
raise RuntimeError(result)
if status not in {"created", "processing"}:
raise RuntimeError(f"Unexpected status: {status}")
time.sleep(2)Minimax H3 Text To Video is a WaveSpeedAI model for video generation, exposed as a REST API on WaveSpeedAI. MiniMax H3 Open Weights Text to Video generates coherent videos from text prompts, with 480P / 768P output, native stereo audio, 5-15 second duration, flexible aspect ratios, and per-second billing. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing. You can call it programmatically or try it from the playground above.
POST your input parameters to the model's REST endpoint (shown in the API tab of this playground) with your WaveSpeedAI API key in the Authorization header. Submission returns a prediction ID. Poll the result endpoint starting around every 2 seconds, increase the interval for long-running tasks, and stop on any terminal status. The playground generates production-oriented Python, JavaScript, and cURL examples with timeouts, transient-error handling, and safe GET retries. Full request/response shape is documented at https://wavespeed.ai/docs/docs-api/wavespeed-ai/minimax-h3-text-to-video.
Minimax H3 Text To Video starts at $0.20 per run. That figure is the base price — the final charge scales with the parameters you set in the form (output size, length, count, references, or whatever knobs this model exposes), so a higher-quality or larger output costs more than a minimal one. The exact cost for your current input is shown live next to the Generate button before you submit, and the actual per-call charge is recorded on the prediction afterwards.
Key inputs: `prompt`, `aspect_ratio`, `resolution`, `duration`, `seed`. The full JSON schema (types, defaults, allowed values) is rendered above the Generate button and mirrored in the API reference at https://wavespeed.ai/docs/docs-api/wavespeed-ai/minimax-h3-text-to-video.
Median end-to-end generation time on WaveSpeedAI is around 249 seconds per request, based on recent successful runs. Queue time varies with global demand; live status is visible in the prediction record.
Commercial usage rights depend on the model's license, set by its provider (WaveSpeedAI). The license summary appears on the model card above; see WaveSpeedAI's Terms of Service for platform-level conditions.