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Model Pareto

MiniMax H3 vs Seedance 2.5

In video generation, MiniMax H3 scores 91.1 and Seedance 2.5 86.1 on the 0–100 quality scale. Seedance 2.5 costs 1.8× as much as MiniMax H3 ($0.23 vs $0.13 per second of 1080p video).
MiniMax H3Seedance 2.5
Focus

Video generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 32 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Hailuo 2.3, Grok Imagine Video, HiDream-O1-Video, Gemini Omni Flash. 4 models are not plotted: Muse Video, MAGI-2 Preview, Bach-1.0 Preview, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step.

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

Muse Video, MAGI-2 Preview, Bach-1.0 Preview, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • MiniMax H3
    Quality
    91.1
    Rank
    #4/34
    Price
    $0.13/s
    Speed
    121s

    vs Seedance 2.5: +5.0 quality · 0.56× price

  • Seedance 2.5
    Quality
    86.1
    Rank
    #5/34
    Price
    $0.23/s
    Speed
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    vs MiniMax H3: −5.0 quality · 1.8× price

Overview

Metric
MiniMax H3
Seedance 2.5
Lab
MiniMax
ByteDance Seed
Released
Jul 30, 2026
Jul 31, 2026
Weights
Open
Proprietary
Price per second
1080p
$0.13Best
$0.23
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
Seedance 2.5
Video generation
91.1±3.0Best
#4/34Verified
86.1±6.0
#5/34Verified

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
Seedance 2.5
AA Text-to-Video Arena
third-party
#3/251302Verified
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1332
  3. #3MiniMax H31302
  4. #4HappyHorse-1.01286
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#4/26~1294Estimated
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #3MiniMax H31302
  3. ~#4Seedance 2.5Estimated1294
  4. #4HappyHorse-1.01286
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Image-to-Video Arena
third-party
#3/261357Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #2Wan 3.0Few votes1361
  3. #3MiniMax H31357
  4. #4Seedance 2.01340
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#4/27~1341Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #3MiniMax H31357
  3. ~#4Seedance 2.5Estimated1341
  4. #4Seedance 2.01340
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Text-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#3/221220Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #2Wan 3.01230
  3. #3MiniMax H31220
  4. #4Seedance 2.01210
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#5/23~1202Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #4Seedance 2.01210
  3. ~#5Seedance 2.5Estimated1202
  4. #5MAGI-2 Preview1156
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Image-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#1/231181Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1177
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#6/24~1158Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #5Wan 3.01164
  3. ~#6Seedance 2.5Estimated1158
  4. #6HappyHorse-1.11106
estimated from related benchmarks
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 · 2026-09-21
#6/171474BestVerified
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
  3. #6Seedance 2.51474
  4. #7MiniMax H31460
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image-to-Video
third-party
#1/191495BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #2Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1488
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#4/191477Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #3Wan 3.0Few votes1480
  3. #4Seedance 2.51477
  4. #5Seedance 2.01475
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
VBench
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