High-fidelity photorealistic AI image generation with natural prompting
2K video with native stereo audio in one pass
Stage
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Startup
Founded
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2026
Based in
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Pricing model
Open source
Freemium
Pricing
Free and open source
On the Hailuo AI App: free tier and paid monthly plans (rates listed in app). On MiniMax Open Platform: billed per output second, with 2K tier priced above 768p tier. On this site: 18 credits per second at 768p and 29 credits per second at 2K, with annual plans showing 50% discount and various month
Key features
High-fidelity skin and eye rendering with fine pores and light reflections
Robust composition coherence for multi-subject scenes and action shots
Baked-in VAE with optimized color tuning
Simple natural language prompting without complex templates
Compatible with ComfyUI, Automatic1111, and Forge
Works with popular SDXL ControlNets and IP-Adapters
Thousands of compatible LoRAs available
Optimized CFG sensitivity for high quality at lower scales
Natural light scattering and structural accuracy
Experimental Catalyst branch for continuous model evolution
Multimodal reference input: images, video, and audio
Context-IR token-based pricing variant
Downloadable weights for local deployment
H3-Contextual Omni Representation for modality bridging
Up to 12 reference files with caption compression
What makes it different
Minimal prompting complexity with natural language descriptions instead of complex embeddings
Eliminates artificial AI textures and generic rendering artifacts
Open-source with commercial use permissions
Seamless integration into existing AI image generation workflows
Continuously refined through community feedback and experimental development
Only model generating video and audio together natively
2K output at lower per-second rate than competitors
Downloadable open weights available
Accepts richer multimodal reference input than competitors
CyberRealistic XL
MiniMax H3