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MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

good motion, impossible pricing

opaque — sold in 'video points', from $1,000 per package#teams-already-committed-

a genuinely capable model behind the least transparent pricing in the category — $1,000 minimum packages that expire monthly are hard to recommend to anyone small.

hailuo has a strong reputation for motion quality and a large consumer following, and the model itself is competitive.

the pricing is the problem and it is worth being blunt about it. minimax sells 'video points' in packages starting at $1,000 for 3,760 points, rising to $6,000 — and the points expire after a month. the documentation gives deduction examples rather than rates, so working out what a project costs means reverse-engineering it from worked examples.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

pricing
opaque — sold in 'video points', from $1,000 per package
our verdict

a genuinely capable model behind the least transparent pricing in the category — $1,000 minimum packages that expire monthly are hard to recommend to anyone small.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.

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