MiniMax H3 vs sync.

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MiniMax H3 compared with sync.
Detail	MiniMax H3	sync.
What it does	2K video with native stereo audio in one pass	AI lip sync, dubbing and talking video for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents
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 tier: 3 free video generations per month (up to 15 seconds each), 10 monthly audio generations. Paid plans on legacy usage billing: Hobbyist ($6 invoice threshold, $0.04-$0.05/sec lipsync-2), Creator ($20 threshold, $0.067-$0.083/sec lipsync-2-pro), Growth ($50 threshold), Scale ($250 threshold
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	Lip-sync videos to new audio or typed scripts Make photos, portraits and characters talk Add dialogue to AI-generated video clips from Veo, Kling, Sora Dub videos into other languages with matching lips Edit or remove spoken words in original voice Localize campaigns across multiple markets Batch lip-sync CSV rows or folders resumably Build sync. into apps with REST API and SDKs Integration with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents Cost estimation and approval before paid work
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	Agent-first approach: works natively with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other AI agents Plain language commands: describe what you want and the agent picks the matching skill Always-approved billing: costs quoted before paid work with user approval required Complete end-to-end workflow: from lip-sync to dubbing to localization to API integration
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	67 +1 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	12	12
Citation Flow (Majestic)	21	42
Referring domains (Majestic)	43	1145

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