MiniMax H3 vs Ikat

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MiniMax H3 compared with Ikat
Detail	MiniMax H3	Ikat
What it does	2K video with native stereo audio in one pass	Turn a photo or a prompt into an AI video in one studio
Stage	Startup	Not given
Founded	2026	Not given
Based in	Not given	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	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	Free credits for new accounts with no card required. GPT Image 2.5: 5 Credits per image. GPT Image 2.6: 8 Credits per image. Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast: from 10 Credits (480p, 2 Credits/s, minimum 10 Credits for 5s video). Seedance 2.5: from 90 Credits (720p, 33 Credits/s, minimum 90 Credits for 5s video
Key features	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	Text to Video: describe a scene and get a video from your prompt Image to Video: upload a photo and describe how it should move Multiple AI video models: Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast, Seedance 2.5, and Wan 3.0 Video length up to 30 seconds with Wan 3.0 Resolution options from 480p to 1080p AI Image Generation with GPT Image models Image to Image editing with AI Transparent credit cost shown before generation Video effects including Hop Hop Hop AI, Smalltown Boy Dance AI, One Man Army AI Audio generation with select models
What makes it different	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	Free credits for new accounts with no card required No watermark on creations after any credit purchase with commercial use license Credit cost shown transparently before generation with automatic restoration if generation fails All creations automatically saved to account for future access and download Runs in browser with nothing to install
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	15 −1 (down) since last check	18 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	12	3
Citation Flow (Majestic)	21	26
Referring domains (Majestic)	43	21

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