StepFun 阶跃星辰 vs MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
StepFun 阶跃星辰
Chinese multimodal frontier-model lab founded by Microsoft Research ve...
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MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI
MiniMax's consumer AI suite — chat, voice, video, now a public company
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.6 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | — | Free tier (a few short watermarked clips/day, no card) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Android app 13M+ installs, ~70K ratings (~4.06/5 on Google Play) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | StepFun (阶跃星辰) is a well-funded Chinese AI lab building capable multimodal Step models, with an OpenAI-compatible API, realtime voice tooling and recent open-source releases such as Step 3.7 Flash aimed at agentic us... |
MiniMax is a public company now — listed in Hong Kong in January 2026 — and Hailuo is its consumer face: chat, voice, and the video generator that keeps topping physics benchmarks. Hailuo 2.3 produces motion quality West... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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