AI music generator that turns one sentence into a complete song
2K video with native stereo audio in one pass
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Startup
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2026
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Pricing model
Freemium
Freemium
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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
End-to-end whole-song generation from natural language
Smart Lyrics: AI writes lyrics in Chinese or English matched to mood and theme
Instrumental mode for generating arrangements without vocals
Multiple versions per generation to compare directions
Professional music vocabulary support: genre, BPM, key, instrumentation
Reference audio for style and timbre matching
Music recipes: published songs expose the prompt behind them
Community plaza with likes, comments and hit-music feed
Supports prompts up to 5,000 characters with situation, genre, vocal character and arrangement details
Free daily draft attempts with charged music generation
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
Independent guide and studio explaining Happy Shrimp with guided prompts and example songs
Whole-song generation that maintains coherence from intro to outro unlike staged pipelines
Understands both natural language and professional producer terminology
Six example songs across genres with briefs that can be customized and regenerated
Educational resources explaining prompt structure and workflow for better results
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
Happy Shrimp Online
MiniMax H3