A lightweight multimodal video generation model supporting text-to-video, first and last frame image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation at 480P and 768P.
MiniMax H3 Lite (minimax/h3-lite) is a video model from MiniMax, released 2026-10-30. Pricing via AIgateway: $0.025–$0.040 per second by resolution. Call it via https://api.aigateway.sh/v1/videos/generations — set model="minimax/h3-lite".
curl https://api.aigateway.sh/v1/videos/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AIGATEWAY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"minimax/h3-lite","prompt":"a slow drone shot over a mountain lake","duration":5,"resolution":"480p"}'{
"model": "minimax/h3-lite",
"prompt": "A drone shot of a mountain lake at golden hour",
"duration": 5, // seconds
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution": "480p" // 480p $0.03/s, 768p $0.04/s
}
// optional "image_url" to animate a seed image
// Response is an async job — poll /v1/jobs/<id> until status === "completed".{
"id": "job_abc123",
"status": "queued", // queued | processing | completed | failed
"model": "minimax/h3-lite",
"created": 1776947082
}
// After completion:
{
"id": "job_abc123",
"status": "completed",
"result": {
"url": "https://media.aigateway.sh/video/abc123.mp4",
"duration": 5,
"resolution": "1920x1080"
}
}import os, requests
r = requests.post(
"https://api.aigateway.sh/v1/videos/generations",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AIGATEWAY_API_KEY']}"},
json={
"model": "minimax/h3-lite",
"prompt": "A drone shot of a mountain lake",
"duration": 5,
"aspect_ratio": "16:9"
},
)
print(r.json())