What the resolution step costs on MiniMax

MiniMax publishes two models with different steps. One charges eight cents a second at 768P and thirteen at 2K, a rise of about sixty per cent. The other starts lower, at five cents for 480P, and reaches eight at 768P. As of 2026-09-22.

Inclusion rule. Tiers with a published per-second figure on the pay-as-you-go page. A tier reachable only through a plan is not priced per second and gets no row. Order. By model, then ascending by resolution.

1Where MiniMax sits in this column

Inclusion rule. Channels publishing a rate at more than one resolution on the same page. A channel with a single figure has no step to price. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.

2The two models meet at one tier, which makes the step readable

Both models price 768P and both price it at eight cents. That overlap is the useful part of this page: it fixes a reference point, so the cheaper model's 480P tier and the dearer model's 2K tier can be read as steps down and up from the same figure.

Very little else in the register lines up that neatly. Two model families usually price different resolutions entirely, which leaves a buyer comparing 720p against 768P and pretending the difference is nothing.

3Sixty per cent for a resolution step is at the gentle end here

Across the register the same increment costs anything from nothing to nearly three times. Rising from eight cents to thirteen sits well below the median, which means a production that has to deliver at the higher tier is not penalised for it as heavily as on most channels.

That changes which figure to quote. Where the step is steep, the advertised rate is close to marketing; where it is gentle, the advertised rate is close to the truth even for a buyer who ends up one tier higher.

4One model is restricted in what it accepts, and that is part of the price

The cheaper model is published as text and image to video only. A production that needs to hand the model a reference clip cannot use the five-cent tier at all, so the step from 480P to 768P is sometimes not a choice about pixels.

Reading a resolution curve without the input restrictions beside it is how a shortlist ends up containing a tier the work cannot use. The cheapest row on a page is only a candidate if the job fits inside its accepted inputs.

• MiniMax H3
  $0.08 per second at 768P and $0.13 per second at 2KMiniMax, pay-as-you-go / recorded 2026-09-12
• H3-Max
  $0.05 per second at 480P and $0.08 per second at 768Ptext and image to video onlyMiniMax, pay-as-you-go / recorded 2026-09-12

5Inside a generated second

Price aside, what goes into the seconds behind “MiniMax resolution step” is described in SceneMixer's guides:

Sixty to a hundred and twenty seconds is the working range for short drama, and that is what the outline paces for. A 90-second episode is typically seven segments of about fourteen seconds stacked together.

SceneMixer, Vertical AI Video Generator — “How long should a vertical episode be?” (read 2026-10-13)

In the editor this tier is greyed out for such a segment; pick a Seedance 2.5 or Wan tier.

SceneMixer, Seedance 2.0 (standard tier) — “Can a segment longer than 15 seconds use this tier?” (read 2026-10-13)

6Sources

Read from the pay-as-you-go page published at platform.minimax.io on 2026-09-22. The rate this column sits beside is on MiniMax; what the register accepts as published is on the method page. The same column on other channels: Vidu, Veo. Every column: what each channel publishes.