AI platform that transforms text and photos into animated videos using multiple frontier models
Stage
Startup
MVP
Founded
2026
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Based in
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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: $0 with 50 credits; Lite: $10/month with 500 credits/month; Pro: 1,250 credits (annual pricing offers 30% discount)
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 generation with semantic understanding
Image-to-video with optional end frame control
Consistent character maintenance using reference images
Lock start and end frames for controlled motion animation
AI cartoon and anime style generation
Video enhancement tools including upscale, interpolate, and stabilize
AI video effects including background replacement and character effects
Access to multiple AI models from one dashboard
Veo 3 native sound generation for video
No-watermark exports on paid plans
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
Single unified platform accessing all major AI video models without switching tools
One price model with unified credits across all engines instead of per-model subscriptions
Always access to newest models the week they ship without migrations or retraining
Creator-first pricing that scales by seconds rendered with watermark-free exports
Backed by AI Secret, a 1.7 million reader newsletter with early access to frontier models
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