AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — MiniMax
MiniMax H3 is an open-weight general-purpose video model that understands text, image, video and audio context and generates video with native stereo audio at up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds. A faster post-trained variant, MiniMax-H3-Max, is offered on the API. Its licence excludes use in the European Union, the United Kingdom, South Korea and the United States, and commercial use above US$20 million in revenue needs MiniMax’s written authorisation.
Model B — ByteDance Seed
Seedance 2.5 (Dreamina Seedance 2.5) is ByteDance Seed's audio-video joint generation model, built for 30-second storytelling with reference control and editing. It outputs 480p to 1080p video at 24 fps, 4 to 30 seconds per generation.
| Property | MiniMax H3 | Seedance 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Jul 31, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 |
| Developer | MiniMax | ByteDance Seed |
| Type | video | video |
| License | open-weight | proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Parameters | 33B-parameter dense H3-Omni-Transformer (about 13B of it in AdaLN branches); text encoder uses Qwen3-VL-32B weights | — |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | — | — |
| Output $/M tokens | — | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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