MiniMax-H3 vs wan3.0-video
Parameters, independent leaderboard coverage, real-task reports and open-weight availability are shown side by side; missing coverage is not a zero.
Parameters
| Comparison item | MiniMax-H3 | wan3.0-video |
|---|---|---|
| Model Type | Video | Video |
| Context window | — | — |
| Maximum output | — | — |
| Input/output modalities | — | — |
| Endpoint | openai-video | openai-video |
| Open weights | Available | Unavailable |
| License | MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement (excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea) | Proprietary hosted model |
Leaderboard coverage
Every independent board covering either model is retained; an em dash means that board has not published a figure for that model.
| Evaluation | MiniMax-H3 | wan3.0-video |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text-to-Video Arena — Arena score (Elo) | 1462 ±10 | 1494 ±19 |
| LMArena Image-to-Video Arena — Arena score (Elo) | 1497 ±6 | 1481 ±16 |
| Artificial Analysis Text To Video · With Audio — Elo | 1225 -7/7 | 1242 -9/9 |
| Artificial Analysis Image To Video · With Audio — Elo | 1190 -8/8 | 1178 -8/8 |
Real-task reports
MiniMax-H3
- WAN 3.0 and MiniMax H3 compared clip by clip on scenes from an AI horror short — Scenes from the author's own AI survival-horror short, Wrong Turn: Blood Money: fast chases and action, and slower acting and dialogue scenes. Finding: MiniMax H3 won the acting and dialogue scenes, with more realistic facial micro-expressions, consistent emotional delivery and reliable lip sync, and it kept voice identity, dialects and accents across prompts; WAN 3.0 was a clear step ahead on high-speed action, physics and cinematic camera movement, handling rapid motion with fewer artifacts. Limitation: One creator's qualitative verdict on scenes from their own film: there are no scores, and the description does not say how many generations were made, which platform or settings were used, or which Wan 3.0 tier was tested.
wan3.0-video
- WAN 3.0 and MiniMax H3 compared clip by clip on scenes from an AI horror short — Scenes from the author's own AI survival-horror short, Wrong Turn: Blood Money: fast chases and action, and slower acting and dialogue scenes. Finding: WAN 3.0 was a clear step ahead on high-speed action, kinetic physics, chase choreography and cinematic camera movement, handling rapid motion with fewer artifacts; MiniMax H3 won the acting and dialogue scenes on micro-expressions, emotional delivery, lip sync and keeping voice identity and accents, an area where WAN 3.0 still struggles. Limitation: One creator's qualitative verdict on scenes from their own film: there are no scores, and the description does not say how many generations were made, which platform or settings were used, or which Wan 3.0 tier was tested.