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MiniMax Pricing 2026: Hailuo Video, API, and Coding Plans Explained

MiniMax pricing spans three separate products under one brand, and that is exactly why it confuses people. The Hailuo AI video generator runs from a free tier up to $199.99/month, the MiniMax API charges per token from as little as $0.15 per million on M2.5, and the developer Token Plan starts at $10/month. Whichever one you came for, the numbers below are current as of June 2026. The naming is the first hurdle. Hailuo AI is MiniMax’s consumer video app, MiniMax is the company and its API brand, and searches like “hailuo minimax pricing” mix the two together. This guide separates all three so you can find your exact plan, […]

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MiniMax M3 Is Here With Frontier Coding, 1M Context, and Native Multimodality

On June 1, 2026, MiniMax officially released M3, the Shanghai lab’s next flagship language model, and it shipped exactly as promised. The model that spent weeks as an architecture teaser is now live, and the pitch turned out to be real: frontier-level coding, a 1-million-token context window, and native multimodality, all in one open-weight model. MiniMax calls it the first and only open-weight model to bring all three together. The architecture story we covered before launch held up. M3 is built on the new MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) design, the same sparse attention the company had killed in its M2 generation and brought back for M3. You can use it […]

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Best AI February 2026 Rankings: GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro

Choosing the right AI tool in 2026 feels like trying to hit a moving target. New models arrive every few weeks, and what worked best in January might already be outdated today. This guide cuts through the hype to show you exactly which tools are winning right now based on a combination of public preference leaderboards, published benchmarks, and hands-on workflow testing prompts. These picks combine human-preference leaderboards lmarena.ai, vendor-published benchmark highlights, and practical workflow prompts. “#1” varies by task; use the use-case row that matches your job. You can Try Fello AI to compare these models side-by-side in a single app. In this update, we address the following questions: […]

グーグルVeo 3をあらゆる面で凌駕する中国製AI動画モデル - 月額わずか$8ドル

中国の小さな新興企業が、ほぼすべての主要ベンチマークでグーグルの大注目製品Veo 3を凌ぐテキストからビデオへの変換モデルをリリースした。MiniMaxのHailuo 02です。物理シミュレーションからプロンプトの正確さまで、Hailuo 02はクリエイター、開発者、そしてインターネット全体を虜にしている。そしておそらく最も注目すべき点は?Veoの最上位プランが$250以上かかるのに比べ、Hailuo 02は月額わずか$8で誰でも利用できるのだ。このプラットフォームが広く知られるようになったのは、ユーザーが作成した、オリンピックスタイルのダイブをする猫の動画がTikTok、Reddit、Instagramで広まったことがきっかけだ。その動画は、中国のスタートアップMiniMaxの第2世代AIモデルであるHailuo 02を使って作られた。それ以来、このプラットフォームは37億以上の動画を生成している。TechRadarが報じたように、「Hailuo 02 [...]...