MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI
MiniMax's consumer AI suite — chat, voice, video, now a public company
Overview
Hailuo AI (海螺AI) is MiniMax's consumer-facing product family, including chat, video generation (Hailuo Video) and voice. The company's underlying models have moved well past the original abab series through MiniMax-01 (Jan 2025), MiniMax-M1 (Jun 2025), M2, M2.5/M2.5-Lightning (Feb 2026), M2.7 (Mar 2026, open-sourced, ranked #1 of 136 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at release) and M3 (Jun 2026, a frontier open-weight model with a 1M-token context window and native multimodal plus computer-use support).
MiniMax listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 9, 2026 at a $6.5B valuation, raising roughly $620M — it is now a public company rather than a private startup.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Trial credits only
- Watermarked output
- 720p cap
- 1,000 credits/mo
- No watermark
- Commercial use
- No credit rollover
- 4,500 credits/mo
- No watermark
- Commercial use
- 10,000 credits/mo
- No watermark
- Commercial use
- 20,000 credits/mo
- No watermark
- Commercial use
Use cases
What you can produce with MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI
- A 6-10-second social media clip (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts) generated from a text prompt in under 90 seconds, watermark-free on paid tiers
- An anime or ink-wash stylized short video from a character description, leveraging Hailuo's leading performance in stylized CG and anime rendering
- A physics-accurate action clip (water splashing, paper folding, a ball trajectory) using Hailuo 2.3, which reportedly ranked #1 for physics on WorldModelBench
- A cinematic shot with custom camera movement — pan, zoom, dolly — using Director Mode, suitable as a B-roll segment for a YouTube video or product ad
- A character-consistent dialogue or narrative clip by uploading a subject reference image, maintaining face/body continuity across a generated scene
- A faceless explainer video segment combining a text prompt with multiple aspect ratios (16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for TikTok, 1:1 for Instagram) in one session
- A rapid creative iteration batch of draft clips on the Standard plan to test visual concepts before committing to higher-cost production tools
ASEAN Perspective
MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI in Southeast Asia
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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 Western rivals charge multiples more for, and the model line behind it (M3, June 2026, with a 1M-token context) moves fast. The score reflects a split reality: the generator is genuinely good and cheap; the billing operation isn't. Trustpilot sits at 1.4/5 on post-cancellation charges and slow refunds, credits expire monthly with no rollover, and support is email-and-Discord only. Chinese-first documentation and shifting regional availability remain live caveats for ASEAN users. A strong pick for affordable AI video if you watch your subscription settings; teams that need dependable billing and support should price in that friction.
What people say
Two numbers frame Hailuo in mid-2026. Parent MiniMax listed in Hong Kong on January 9, 2026, raising about US$618M — the stock jumped 21% on debut, pushing the market cap near US$9 billion, and a mainland dual listing is now in the works. Meanwhile the Trustpilot score for hailuoai.video sits at 1.4/5. The product is winning; the billing operation is not.
On the product side, Hailuo 2.3 remains the flagship video model and took the Physics Champion title on WorldModelBench for mass conservation and fluid dynamics, while a 2.3 Fast variant cuts batch-generation costs by up to half. July 2026 trade reviews keep landing on the same pair of words: speed and value. The language-model line moves just as quickly — M3, released June 2026, is an open-weight frontier model with a 1M-token context window.
The complaints are almost all commercial. Trustpilot reviewers report cards charged after cancellation (one with written confirmation the plan wouldn't renew), refunds quoted at 7–10 business days that stretch past a month, charges appearing under the billing entity Nanonoble Ltd., and no self-service billing portal — support is email and Discord only. The credit mechanics deserve reading too: the free tier's 200 trial credits expire three days after registration, paid credits reset monthly with no rollover, and a 1080p render burns 50–80 credits, so the US$14.99 Standard plan's 1,000 credits go faster than the marketing suggests.
Net: the best-value physics-accurate video going, backed by a now-public company shipping models at a sprint — but manage the subscription with a virtual card and a calendar reminder.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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