MiniMax H3 is silent 2K video
MiniMax H3 is 104 credits to start, silent 2K, 5–15s. Arena Elo is third-party; the Versely card has no soundtrack.
Minimax H3 Text to Video starts at 104 credits of silent 2K video, 5 through 15 seconds. Catalog audio is unset — not a native-audio promise. Artificial Analysis’s August 2026 text-to-video-with-audio Elo (Gemini Omni Flash 1245, MiniMax-H3 1242, cited in invideo’s 7 August 2026 roundup) is a third-party board. On Versely the published H3 card is still silent. Do not pick this row because a leaderboard scored a talking exam.
This page is the catalog-row pick: 104 credits to start, 2K, T2V, 5–15s, audio null. It is not an arena tie-break.
The Versely card is silent 2K
The published row: MiniMax H3 is a frontier video model — generates 2K video from a text prompt alone, in durations from 5 to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios. Content type: video. Category: text-to-video only. Image not required. audio: null. res: 2K. credits: 104. Not discounted. Durations every second from 5s through 15s.
Read the audio field last, because it is the one a frontier headline will hide. Null is unset. Unset is not true. Native audio on this catalog is a boolean other slugs set explicitly: Veo 3.1, Flux 3 T2V, LTX 2.3 Fast, Seedance 1.5 Pro T2V. H3 does not. Plan a mix, or plan captions, or pick a talking row.
2K is the reason the sticker exists next to cheaper silent T2V. Kling 3 Turbo Text to Video is 22 credits (was 27), silent, 1080p, 3–15s. H3 is 104 for a 2K listing and a 5–15s T2V generate with no still required. If the master is 2K and the shot is a sentence, 104 is in range. If the master is a 1080p feed cut, Turbo is the quieter bill.
T2V only. No I2V category on this slug. No published image requirement, and no published image slot. MiniMax’s broader H3 stack — vendor pages that mention reference stills or audio refs — is not this card. Do not brief nine reference images on a row that asks for a prompt. If you have a still that must hold, you wanted an I2V slug: Hailuo Fast at 12, Hailuo Pro at 40, Midjourney V7 I2V at 88, Runway Gen-4.5 at 200.
Aspect is listed in the description as six ratios, including the usual wide and tall. Set the ratio you will ship. A 2K 16:9 file you later crop to 9:16 is a strip. Generate 9:16 when the destination is a phone.
Do not read 104 as a flat price for 5–15s. H3 bills per second, 21 credits a second, so the card is the 5-second minimum and a 15-second job runs to 312. It is a T2V generate at 2K, audio unset.
From 104 credits, 5–15 seconds
Every integer from 5 through 15 is a chip. That is the length advantage versus Hailuo’s 6s / 10s staircase and Runway’s 5s / 10s. A 12-second silent 2K sentence is an H3-shaped job. A 7-second Hailuo idea is a 10-second purchase. A 7-second H3 idea is 7 seconds.
Use the chip you need. Fifteen seconds of a move that finished at six is nine seconds of invention you will cut. Start short. Promote when the camera has somewhere to go.
104 credits versus neighbours:
- Kling 3 Turbo: 22 credits (was 27), silent, 1080p, 3–15s. Cheaper, longer at the bottom end (3s), not 2K.
- Hailuo Fast: 12 credits (was 23), I2V, 6s / 10s, discounted, audio unset. Still required. Far cheaper, different input.
- Hailuo Pro: 40 credits, 1080p, 6s / 10s, audio false, still required. Cheaper, still silent, not 2K, not 15s.
- Runway Gen-4.5: 200 credits, T2V + I2V, 5s / 10s, audio false. Control, shorter, silent.
- Midjourney V7 I2V: 88 credits, 720p, audio false, still required. Style lock, not 2K T2V.
- Veo 3.1: 64 credits, native audio, 4K, 4 / 6 / 8s. Talking, shorter, 4K.
- Flux 3 T2V: 34 credits, native audio, 5–20s. Talking, cheaper, longer.
- LTX 2.3 Fast: 20 credits, optional native audio, 6–20s, 4K listing.
- Seedance 1.5 Pro T2V: 4 credits, native audio, 1080p, 4–12s.
- Gemini Omni Video: 29 credits, T2V + I2V + R2V, 4K, 4 / 6 / 8 / 10s, catalog audio unset. Different length ceiling, 4K listing, still not a native-audio true on this catalog.
H3’s hole: prompt-only, 2K, 5–15s, 104 credits to start, silent. If any of those five is wrong, leave.
The AI video generator is the run door. Prompt the shot, set duration and aspect, confirm the quote (104 at 5s). Do not attach a still and expect I2V behaviour this slug does not list.
Caption the keeper. Silent 2K on a muted feed without type is an expensive painting. Add captions to a video. Place the line in the safe area. 2K does not move TikTok chrome.
TTS under H3 is a legal finishing path: Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS at 12 credits per 1,000 characters, then burn-in. That is still a silent generate plus a voice. It is not native audio. If the mouth has to match the line, you needed a talking generate or a lipsync row on a face. H3 T2V will not become a presenter because you laid a bed.
Arena Elo is not a soundtrack
invideo’s August 2026 roundup (Best AI Video Model in August 2026, updated 7 August 2026) cites an Artificial Analysis blind-arena snapshot for text-to-video with audio:
| Rank | Model | Elo (Aug 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini Omni Flash | 1245 |
| 2 | MiniMax-H3 | 1242 |
| 3 | Seedance 2.0 | 1225 |
Three points is a tie on a beauty contest, not a routing rule. The exam asked voters to watch short talking clips. The Versely H3 card does not publish audio true. Treating 1242 as proof that H3 will return a mix on confirm is a category error: third-party arena versus published catalog.
Cite the board when you need a dated public number. Then ignore it for the confirm button. On Versely you pick H3 because you want 2K T2V from 104 credits for 5–15s and you will mix or caption yourself. You do not pick H3 because it sat one tick behind Omni Flash on a T2V+audio table.
Omni Flash in that table is a family voters saw. The Versely Omni generate is Gemini Omni Video: 29 credits, 4K, 4 / 6 / 8 / 10s, T2V + I2V + R2V, catalog audio also unset. Versely has no separate Omni 1.1 Flash card. Google’s 27 August 2026 Omni 1.1 Flash post is a Google-surface update, not a third Versely card. Versely’s Gemini Omni Flash Text to Video and Image to Video rows (40 credits, audio true) are listed as variants on the Gemini Omni Flash Edit page; Omni Video and H3 are not native-audio toggles.
Do not fight over 1245 versus 1242. Do not write “H3 has native audio on Versely because Elo included audio.” The published field is null. Ship as silent.
Other snapshots the same month called the same pair a dead heat. Standings move. Job flags do not. 2K, 5–15s, T2V, 104 credits to start, audio unset: those survive a board refresh.
When to leave H3 for a talking row
Leave when any of these is true:
- The generate must speak. Audio null. Veo 3.1, Flux 3 T2V, LTX 2.3 Fast, Seedance 1.5 Pro T2V. Those cards set audio true (or optional true, on LTX Fast). H3 plus TTS is a workaround, not a mix.
- You have a still that must hold. T2V only. Hailuo Fast / Pro, Runway Gen-4.5 I2V, Midjourney V7 I2V.
- You need 4K. H3 lists 2K. Veo and Omni Video and LTX Fast list 4K.
- You need longer than 15s. Flux 3 goes to 20s with native audio from 34 credits. LTX Fast to 20s. Seedance 2.5 is 34 credits (was 67), 4–30s, 720p, native audio, if you need a thirty-second pass. This page is H3.
- You need cheaper silent T2V and 1080p is enough. Kling 3 Turbo, 22 credits.
- You need 4 / 6 / 8s talking cinematic. Veo 3.1, 64 credits.
Stay when the brief is a prompt, 2K, 5–15s, no in-generate voice, 104 credits approved. That sentence is the whole product.
Sora API sunset (OpenAI Help Centre, updated September 2026: shutdown 24 September 2026) does not make H3 a Sora 2 replacement. Sora 2 T2V on this catalog was native audio at 720p. H3 is silent 2K. Replacing a talking leftover with H3 is a mix change. Put talking leftovers on a native-audio row. Put silent 2K sentences here.
If the next shot is a 5–15s 2K prompt and you will add sound later, run Minimax H3 Text to Video from Versely. If the next shot talks in the file, do not use the Elo table as a soundtrack.
FAQ
Does MiniMax H3 include native audio on Versely?
No. The published card is text-to-video, 2K, 5–15s, 104 credits to start, audio unset. Third-party arenas that scored T2V+audio are not this flag.
Is 104 credits the price of 2K with a still?
Not on this slug. Category is text-to-video. Image not required, and I2V is not listed. A still-led job belongs on an image-to-video row.
Why is H3 104 credits if Omni Flash led the August Elo board?
Elo was a short talking-clip vote (Omni Flash 1245, MiniMax-H3 1242, Artificial Analysis via invideo, August 2026). Versely H3 is 104 credits to start, silent 2K T2V. Versely Omni Video is 29 credits, 4K, 4–10s, audio unset. Pick the card that matches length, resolution, and mix. Do not pick by the third digit of an arena score.