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MiniMax H3 Highspeed vs Qwen3.8-Max

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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MiniMax H3 Highspeed
minimax/h3-highspeed
Qwen3.8-Max
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
Provider
MiniMax
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Modality
video
text
Context window
—
1,000,000 tok
Max output
—
131,072 tok
Released
2026-10-30
2026-08-02
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
—
$2.00 /1M
Output price
—
$6.00 /1M
Per output second
$0.060 /sec
—
Tools
—
yes
Streaming
—
yes
Vision
—
yes
JSON mode
—
yes
Reasoning
—
yes
Prompt caching
—
—
Batch API
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—
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MiniMax H3 Highspeed
minimax/h3-highspeed
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A multimodal video generation model that balances quality and speed, supporting text-to-video, first and last frame image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation at 768P.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Use cases
PromosDemosStoryboards
Qwen3.8-Max
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
Full spec →

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship built for professional-grade coding and long-horizon autonomous work, capable of delivering complete, production-grade projects spanning 10+ days across legal, financial, design, and other specialized domains. Native visual understanding of images and extended video runs through the full plan-execute-verify cycle, served via DashScope's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# MiniMax H3 Highspeed
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/h3-highspeed",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Qwen3.8-Max
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3.8-max",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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