MiniMax H3
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: The licence excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea entirely, and commercial products must show "MiniMax H3".
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 33B dense model that generates 4 to 15-second video with native stereo audio at 24fps (shorter side 768px by default, 2K with a regenerate step) from text, image, video and audio references. Released 28 Jul 2026. |
| Modality | video, audio, image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | MiniMax H3 Community License |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use MiniMax H3
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: MiniMax H3 Community License.
Quickstart
pip install -U diffusers # then ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3"), as in the model cardPaste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "MiniMax H3" (MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- The licence excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea entirely, and commercial products must show "MiniMax H3".
- MiniMax H3 Community License (LICENSE in the HF repo): licence only in the Applicable Territory, which excludes the European Union, the United Kingdom, South Korea and the United States. Commercial products must…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is MiniMax H3 free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · MiniMax H3 Community License. No credit card is needed.
Can I use MiniMax H3 commercially?
Yes, under MiniMax H3 Community License. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with MiniMax H3?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: MiniMax H3 Community License.
Source: huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3, checked 8 Oct 2026.