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Model Pareto

MiniMax H3 vs HiDream-O1-Video

In video generation, MiniMax H3 scores 90.8 and HiDream-O1-Video 88.7 on the 0–100 quality scale. MiniMax H3 costs 1.3× as much as HiDream-O1-Video ($0.13 vs $0.097 per second of 1080p video).
MiniMax H3HiDream-O1-Video
Focus

Video generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 36 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Boreal, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite, Agnes-Video-2.5, HiDream-O1-Video, Gemini Omni Flash. 4 models are not plotted: Vidu Q4 Preview, Muse Video, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step, MAGI-2 Preview.

4 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Vidu Q4 Preview, Muse Video, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step, MAGI-2 Preview

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • MiniMax H3
    Quality
    90.8
    Rank
    #3/38
    Price
    $0.13/s
    Speed
    121s

    vs HiDream-O1-Video: +2.1 quality · 1.3× price

  • HiDream-O1-Video
    Quality
    88.7
    Rank
    #5/38
    Price
    $0.097/s
    Speed
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    vs MiniMax H3: −2.1 quality · 0.74× price

Overview

Metric
MiniMax H3
HiDream-O1-Video
Lab
MiniMax
HiDream.ai
Released
Jul 30, 2026
Sep 17, 2026
Weights
Open
Proprietary
Price per second
1080p
$0.13
$0.097Best
Render time
per clip
121s
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Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
MiniMax H3
HiDream-O1-Video
Video generation
90.8±3.0Best
#3/38Verified
88.7±7.0
#5/38Verifiedbest value

Video generation benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
MiniMax H3
HiDream-O1-Video
AA Text-to-Video Arena
third-party
#2/261121Verified
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1128
  2. #2MiniMax H31121
  3. #3Seedance 2.5Few votes1104
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
~#4/27~1103Estimated
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1128
  2. #3Seedance 2.5Few votes1104
  3. ~#4HiDream-O1-VideoEstimated1103
  4. #4FLUX 3 Video1090
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Image-to-Video Arena
third-party
#4/271357Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #3Wan 3.0Few votes1361
  3. #4MiniMax H31357
  4. #5Seedance 2.01340
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
~#5/28~1350Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #4MiniMax H31357
  3. ~#5HiDream-O1-VideoEstimated1350
  4. #5Seedance 2.01340
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Text-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#4/241139Verified
  1. #1Seedance 2.5Few votes1160
  2. #3FLUX 3 Video1155
  3. #4MiniMax H31139
  4. #5Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash1132
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
~#5/25~1137Estimated
  1. #1Seedance 2.5Few votes1160
  2. #4MiniMax H31139
  3. ~#5HiDream-O1-VideoEstimated1137
  4. #5Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash1132
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Image-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#6/281131Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1177
  2. #5Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash1134
  3. #6MiniMax H31131
  4. #7Vidu Q4 PreviewFew votes1130
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#2/281176BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1177
  2. #2HiDream-O1-VideoFew votes1176
  3. #3Seedance 2.5Few votes1139
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
LMArena Text-to-Video
third-party
#7/171460Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #6Seedance 2.51474
  3. #7MiniMax H31460
  4. #8Muse VideoFew votes1456
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
~#5/18~1479Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #4Seedance 2.01479
  3. ~#5HiDream-O1-VideoEstimated1479
  4. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Image-to-Video
third-party
#1/191495BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #2Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1488
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
#7/191456Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #7Grok Imagine Video 1.51456
  3. #7HiDream-O1-Video1456
  4. #9FLUX 3 Video1449
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
VBench
day 0
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