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Hailuo AI video: MiniMax's clip tool, priced only if we can cite it

Published 16 Oct 2026. Updated 16 Oct 2026. Researched 16 Oct 2026.

Hailuo is MiniMax’s video generator. The text model MiniMax M3 is a different SKU with a token price. Search pages mash them together because the company is the same. Your invoice will not.

What we know

The product lives at hailuoai.video. It takes a prompt or a still and returns a clip. Free credits exist in the way every video app has a teaser, and the pack prices move. We did not archive the grid on 16 Oct 2026. Printing a credit count from memory would be a made-up number. Open the site.

A fair test against Kling1Write one prompt and keep it fixed2Generate the shortest clip on Hailuo3Generate the same prompt on Kling4Compare motion and faces, not the marketing reel5Only then look at the credit cost of the settings you actually used

The text model, so you can see it is a different chart

MiniMax M3 on OpenRouter, a text priceminimax-m3$0.525/Mclaude-opus-5.5$8.00/Mgpt-6.1-sol$4.00/M
MiniMax M3 on OpenRouter, a text price. OpenRouter list price, blended 75% input / 25% output. Snapshot 2026-10-16 06:10 UTC. Comparators resolve to Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol.
ModelBlendedvs Opusvs Sol
minimax-m3$0.52593% cheaper87% cheaper

If you came here to call an API for chat or code, you want the M3 guide. If you came here for video, ignore that bar.

Privacy

Video prompts plus reference images identify people. MiniMax is a PRC company. Do not upload a face you do not have a reason to upload. There is no video Elo chart in this build. The text LMArena file is not a Hailuo score.

Related: Kling, free apps.

Questions

Is Hailuo the same price as MiniMax M3?

No. M3 is a text model billed per token. Hailuo is a video product billed in credits. The M3 chart on this site is not a video price.

Hailuo or Kling?

We cannot rank them on a video leaderboard we did not ingest. Try one clip on each official site and keep the one that matches the shot.

Sources

  1. Hailuo, accessed 2026-10-16
  2. MiniMax, accessed 2026-10-16
  3. OpenRouter models API, accessed 2026-10-16