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MiniMax H3

An open-weight video model with synchronized native audio. ComfyUI provides a local single-GPU template with dynamic offload; the publisher also documents a separate SGLang multi-GPU route.

Verified sourceReleased Aug 3, 2026Source checked 9/25/2026
LOCALRENTED GPUOPEN WEIGHTS
Freshness 69 out of 100. Release age: 97 days old, Aug 3, 2026. Measures age, not quality.
Popularity 93 out of 100. 6,428,102 downloads in 30 days; 6,643 lifetime likes. Checked Nov 7, 2026. Measures adoption, not quality.
Arena Open Source Text to video: rank 1 of 7. Ranked model: MiniMax H3. Export dated Nov 6, 2026. Source checked Nov 7, 2026. Human preference ranking, not hardware suitability.
Category rankings & sources

Each position belongs to a separate Arena category. These are human preference rankings—not hardware recommendations. We do not combine the categories into one score.

Text to video#1of 7 open models
MiniMax H3minimaxLicense: minimax-h3-community-license-agreement
Export dated Nov 6, 2026Checked: Nov 7, 2026Overall board: #11
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Image to video#1of 4 open models
MiniMax H3minimaxLicense: minimax-h3-community-license-agreement
Export dated Nov 6, 2026Checked: Nov 7, 2026Overall board: #2
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Video editing#1of 1 open models
MiniMax H3minimaxLicense: minimax-h3-community-license-agreement
Export dated Nov 6, 2026Checked: Nov 7, 2026Overall board: #4
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Rankings reflect the dated export; live Arena boards can change. Open-source positions use Arena’s open-model filter. The overall position also includes the other models on that category board. Availability of weights and license terms still need to be checked separately.

What do these scores mean?

Two ways to compare models. Neither score measures answer quality, benchmark performance, or whether a model fits your machine.

Freshness · release age

A new release starts at 100. The score halves every 180 days: 100 × 2^(−age in days / 180). When the release date is unavailable, a repository date is a fallback—not proof of when the model was released. Missing dates stay unscored.

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Popularity · adoption

Downloads over the past 30 days carry 80% of the score; lifetime likes carry 20%. Both use a logarithmic scale, capped at 10 million downloads and 100,000 likes. If likes are unavailable, downloads carry all the weight. Missing download statistics stay unscored.

round(80 × min(1, log10(1 + downloads) / 7) + 20 × min(1, log10(1 + likes) / 5))

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Scores as of Nov 8, 2026. Statistics checked Nov 7, 2026. Statistics are marked for refresh after 72 hours.Full scoring method
WORKFLOWS FOR THIS MODEL 3

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Video generation

Generate MiniMax H3 video with audio in ComfyUI

Generate a short local MiniMax H3 video with synchronized sound in ComfyUI using the supported NVIDIA or Apple Silicon package for your machine.

Freshness 69 out of 100. Release age: 97 days old, Aug 3, 2026. Measures age, not quality.
Popularity 93 out of 100. 6,428,102 downloads in 30 days; 6,643 lifetime likes. Checked Nov 7, 2026. Measures adoption, not quality.
ComfyUI
2 packagesmacOS / Windows / Linux
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Video generation

Generate MiniMax H3 videos with FreeVideo

Install FreeVideo’s managed ComfyUI workspace on Windows, Linux, an experimental Apple Silicon Mac, or a rented RunPod GPU. Generate and save a MiniMax H3 video with audio, then try image-to-video, previews, and optional automation.

Freshness 69 out of 100. Release age: 97 days old, Aug 3, 2026. Measures age, not quality.
Popularity 93 out of 100. 6,428,102 downloads in 30 days; 6,643 lifetime likes. Checked Nov 7, 2026. Measures adoption, not quality.
ComfyUIFreeVideo Desktop
1 packagemacOS / Windows / Linux
Open video guide
Video generation

Create MiniMax H3 video on a rented GPU

Use one rented NVIDIA GPU and ComfyUI’s official MiniMax H3 text-to-video graph to make and download a short clip with synchronized audio.

Freshness 69 out of 100. Release age: 97 days old, Aug 3, 2026. Measures age, not quality.
Popularity 93 out of 100. 6,428,102 downloads in 30 days; 6,643 lifetime likes. Checked Nov 7, 2026. Measures adoption, not quality.
ComfyUIRunpod
1 packageLinux
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At a glance

Parameters
33B
Architecture
Dense omni-modal transformer
License
MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement
Software
ComfyUI, SGLang
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Best for

  • Generate local text-to-video with synchronized audio using the official ComfyUI template.
  • First/last-frame guided video generation.

Tradeoffs

  • The separate SGLang publisher deployment is multi-GPU.
  • Review the community and commercial-use license before deploying.

Ways to run it

ComfyUI · Windows, Linux

Official ComfyUI text-to-video template uses optimized H3 weights and dynamic offload; total model footprint is about 42.5 GB.

Official instructions

SGLang · Linux

The documented FL2VA base checkpoint can run locally on rented GPUs.

sglang serve --model-path MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 --num-gpus 4 --ulysses-degree 4 --performance-mode speed --host 0.0.0.0 --port 30010 --model-variant fl2va
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