InVideo AI vs MiniMax Hailuo
A side-by-side look at InVideo AI and MiniMax Hailuo for filmmakers: what each one can do, what it costs, and where they actually differ.
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AI assistant editor on a real multitrack timeline, with a free manual editor
- Price
- Free plan; paid plans per seat from €20/mo (€10/mo billed annually)
- Learning
- Moderate
- Best for
- Short social, ad and explainer videos built from generated clips, stock and talking-head footage
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Chinese AI lab behind the H3 video model: cheap per-second 2K clips with native audio, open weights
- Price
- API: H3 from $0.08/s (768P) or $0.13/s (2K); see the vendor's pricing page for consumer plans.
- Learning
- Easy
- Best for
- Retry-heavy B-roll: generate several 768P variants, then regenerate the best one at 2K
The short version
Where they differ
- Only InVideo AI offers third-party models.
- Only MiniMax Hailuo offers public API.
- Only MiniMax Hailuo offers desktop / local.
All 2 offer: AI agent, text to image, text to video, image to video, voice / TTS, character consistency, MCP server.
Feature by feature
InVideo AI vs MiniMax Hailuo: capabilities
| InVideo AI | MiniMax Hailuo | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan; paid plans per seat from €20/mo (€10/mo billed annually) | API: H3 from $0.08/s (768P) or $0.13/s (2K); see the vendor's pricing page for consumer plans. |
| AI agent | Yes | Yes |
| Chat assistant | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Team collaboration | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Text to image | Yes | Yes |
| Image editing | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Text to video | Yes | Yes |
| Image to video | Yes | Yes |
| Video to video | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Native audio in video | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Lip-sync | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Voice / TTS | Yes | Yes |
| Music & SFX | Yes | Partial |
| Upscaling | Yes | Partial |
| Character consistency | Yes | Yes |
| Camera control | Partial | Partial |
| Third-party models | Yes | No |
| Public API | No | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Desktop / local | No | Yes |
| Open source | No | Partial |
| Free tier | Yes | Partial |
Each column comes from that tool's own researched page. "Not confirmed" means the vendor doesn't say.
Plans
Pricing compared
InVideo AI
| Free | €0weekly quota |
|---|---|
| Starter | €20monthly (€10/mo billed annually) |
| Plus | €60monthly (€30/mo billed annually) |
| Max | €150monthly (€75/mo billed annually) |
MiniMax Hailuo
| H3 768P (API) | $0.08per second of output |
|---|---|
| H3 2K (API) | $0.13per second of output |
| H3-Max 480P (API) | $0.05per second of output |
| H3-Regeneration (API) | $0.05per second of regenerated output |
| Hailuo-2.3 768P 6s (API, legacy) | $0.28per video |
The verdict
Which one should you pick?
InVideo AI
Pick it for
- Short social, ad and explainer videos built from generated clips, stock and talking-head footage
- Cutting talking-head, podcast and multicam recordings: silences, filler, angle switching and chapters
- Editors who want an AI first pass and then finish in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve
Stands out
- The AI works on a real multitrack timeline, and every edit it makes can be adjusted by hand afterwards.
- Exports an editable project to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve with cuts and layers intact, so the AI cut can move into a finishing workflow.
Watch out
- Credits are per seat and do not roll over to the next month
- Seedance 2.0 at 4K and Seedance 2.5 are only on Plus and Max; Starter gets Seedance 2.0 Fast and Mini
MiniMax Hailuo
Pick it for
- Retry-heavy B-roll: generate several 768P variants, then regenerate the best one at 2K
- Image-to-video shots that need a locked first frame from a still or storyboard panel
- Keeping one character, product or voice consistent across shots with reference inputs
Stands out
- Published per-second API pricing you can budget against: $0.08/s at 768P, $0.13/s at 2K, $0.05/s for 480P H3-Max.
- H3-Regeneration takes a 768P render to 2K at $0.05/s, so you can generate cheap variants and only upscale the picks.
Watch out
- Hard 15 second cap per clip, and durations are whole seconds only
- Local open weights top out at 768P; 2K needs the hosted API
Each column comes from that tool's own researched page, checked against vendor pricing and changelog pages (oldest check: ). Sources are listed on each tool's page.
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