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Model Pareto

Wan 3.0 vs MiniMax H3

In video generation, Wan 3.0 scores 93.8 and MiniMax H3 91.1 on the 0–100 quality scale. Wan 3.0 costs 1.5× as much as MiniMax H3 ($0.20 vs $0.13 per second of 1080p video).
Wan 3.0MiniMax H3
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
  • Wan 3.0
    Quality
    93.8
    Rank
    #3/34
    Price
    $0.20/s
    Speed
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    vs MiniMax H3: +2.7 quality · 1.5× price

  • MiniMax H3
    Quality
    91.1
    Rank
    #4/34
    Price
    $0.13/s
    Speed
    121s

    vs Wan 3.0: −2.7 quality · 0.65× price

Overview

Metric
Wan 3.0
MiniMax H3
Lab
Alibaba Qwen
MiniMax
Released
Aug 19, 2026
Jul 30, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Open
Price per second
1080p
$0.20
$0.13Best
Render time
per clip
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121s

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
Wan 3.0
MiniMax H3
Video generation
93.8±4.1Best
#3/34Verified
91.1±3.0
#4/34Verified

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
Wan 3.0
MiniMax H3
AA Text-to-Video Arena
third-party
#1/251335BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1332
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#3/251302Verified
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1332
  3. #3MiniMax H31302
  4. #4HappyHorse-1.01286
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image-to-Video Arena
third-party
#2/261361BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #2Wan 3.0Few votes1361
  3. #3MiniMax H31357
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#3/261357Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #2Wan 3.0Few votes1361
  3. #3MiniMax H31357
  4. #4Seedance 2.01340
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Text-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#2/221230BestVerified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #2Wan 3.01230
  3. #3MiniMax H31220
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#3/221220Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #2Wan 3.01230
  3. #3MiniMax H31220
  4. #4Seedance 2.01210
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#5/231164Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #4Seedance 2.01174
  3. #5Wan 3.01164
  4. #6HappyHorse-1.11106
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#1/231181BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #2Gemini Omni Flash1177
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Video
third-party
#5/171476BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #4Seedance 2.01479
  3. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
  4. #6Seedance 2.51474
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#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
LMArena Image-to-Video
third-party
#3/191480VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #2Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1488
  3. #3Wan 3.0Few votes1480
  4. #4Seedance 2.51477
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#1/191495BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #2Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1488
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
VBench
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