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How Hailuo rates on seven criteria

Hailuo (MiniMax) rates 3.3 across the criteria that could be rated, a spread of four points: strongest where generation happens, silent on everything around it. Its strongest columns are picture quality and sound, and its weakest are script handling and assembly. Every number describes what the vendor publishes, read on 2026-09-12. As of 2026-09-12.

Hailuo (MiniMax), criterion by criterionOne bar per criterion in the table below, drawn to the rating out of five. A criterion left unrated has no bar.Hailuo (MiniMax), criterion by criterionPicture quality5 of 55 of 5Sound5 of 55 of 5Cast consistency4 of 54 of 5Cost transparency4 of 54 of 5Shot control3 of 53 of 5Script handling1 of 51 of 5Assembly1 of 51 of 5
Fig. 1 One bar per criterion in the table below, drawn to the rating out of five. A criterion left unrated has no bar.
Hailuo (MiniMax) on the seven criteria, with what each rating rests on. Recorded 2026-09-12.
CriterionRatingWhat the vendor publishes
Script handling1 of 5Nothing published
Cast consistency4 of 5Documented
Shot control3 of 5Partly documented
Picture quality5 of 5Documented
Sound5 of 5Documented
Assembly1 of 5Nothing published
Cost transparency4 of 5Documented

Inclusion rule. The same seven criteria are applied to every tool rated here. A criterion the vendor does not address is left unrated rather than scored low. Order. Fixed criterion order, identical on every tool page.

1Where this tool sits on its own strongest and weakest columns

Picture quality, tool by toolOne criterion across every rated tool, Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. The rule behind this column is on its own page; the wording each rating rests on is in the table above. Recorded 2026-09-12.Picture quality, tool by toolHailuo (MiniMax)5 of 55 of 5Kling AI5 of 55 of 5Luma Dream Machine5 of 55 of 5Runway5 of 55 of 5Sora (OpenAI)5 of 55 of 5Veo / Flow (Google)5 of 55 of 5Dreamina4 of 54 of 5LTX Studio4 of 54 of 5Morph Studio4 of 54 of 5PixVerse4 of 54 of 5SceneMixer4 of 54 of 5Vidu4 of 54 of 5Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang)4 of 54 of 5CapCut3 of 53 of 5invideo AI3 of 53 of 5Pika3 of 53 of 5
Fig. 2 One criterion across every rated tool, Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. The rule behind this column is on its own page; the wording each rating rests on is in the table above. Recorded 2026-09-12.
Every rated tool on picture quality, with Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. Recorded 2026-09-12.
ToolPicture quality
CapCut3 of 5
Dreamina4 of 5
Hailuo (MiniMax)5 of 5
invideo AI3 of 5
Kling AI5 of 5
LTX Studio4 of 5
Luma Dream Machine5 of 5
Morph Studio4 of 5
Pika3 of 5
PixVerse4 of 5
Runway5 of 5
SceneMixer4 of 5
Sora (OpenAI)5 of 5
Veo / Flow (Google)5 of 5
Vidu4 of 5
Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang)4 of 5

Inclusion rule. Tools rated on this rubric: a public English product page addressing at least four of the seven criteria. An unrated cell means nothing usable is published. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.

Script handling, tool by toolOne criterion across every rated tool, Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. The rule behind this column is on its own page; the wording each rating rests on is in the table above. Recorded 2026-09-12.Script handling, tool by toolSceneMixer5 of 55 of 5invideo AI3 of 53 of 5LTX Studio3 of 53 of 5Morph Studio2 of 52 of 5CapCut1 of 51 of 5Dreamina1 of 51 of 5Hailuo (MiniMax)1 of 51 of 5Kling AI1 of 51 of 5Luma Dream Machine1 of 51 of 5Pika1 of 51 of 5PixVerse1 of 51 of 5Runway1 of 51 of 5Sora (OpenAI)1 of 51 of 5Veo / Flow (Google)1 of 51 of 5Vidu1 of 51 of 5Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang)1 of 51 of 5
Fig. 3 One criterion across every rated tool, Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. The rule behind this column is on its own page; the wording each rating rests on is in the table above. Recorded 2026-09-12.
Every rated tool on script handling, with Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. Recorded 2026-09-12.
ToolScript handling
CapCut1 of 5
Dreamina1 of 5
Hailuo (MiniMax)1 of 5
invideo AI3 of 5
Kling AI1 of 5
LTX Studio3 of 5
Luma Dream Machine1 of 5
Morph Studio2 of 5
Pika1 of 5
PixVerse1 of 5
Runway1 of 5
SceneMixer5 of 5
Sora (OpenAI)1 of 5
Veo / Flow (Google)1 of 5
Vidu1 of 5
Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang)1 of 5

Inclusion rule. Tools rated on this rubric: a public English product page addressing at least four of the seven criteria. An unrated cell means nothing usable is published. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.

Cost transparency, tool by toolOne criterion across every rated tool, Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. The rule behind this column is on its own page; the wording each rating rests on is in the table above. Recorded 2026-09-12.Cost transparency, tool by toolSceneMixer5 of 55 of 5CapCut4 of 54 of 5Hailuo (MiniMax)4 of 54 of 5Morph Studio4 of 54 of 5Pika4 of 54 of 5Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang)4 of 54 of 5Dreamina3 of 53 of 5invideo AI3 of 53 of 5Kling AI3 of 53 of 5PixVerse3 of 53 of 5Vidu3 of 53 of 5Luma Dream Machine2 of 52 of 5Runway2 of 52 of 5Veo / Flow (Google)2 of 52 of 5LTX StudioNot ratedSora (OpenAI)Not rated
Fig. 4 One criterion across every rated tool, Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. The rule behind this column is on its own page; the wording each rating rests on is in the table above. Recorded 2026-09-12.
Every rated tool on cost transparency, with Hailuo (MiniMax) marked. Recorded 2026-09-12.
ToolCost transparency
CapCut4 of 5
Dreamina3 of 5
Hailuo (MiniMax)4 of 5
invideo AI3 of 5
Kling AI3 of 5
LTX StudioNot rated
Luma Dream Machine2 of 5
Morph Studio4 of 5
Pika4 of 5
PixVerse3 of 5
Runway2 of 5
SceneMixer5 of 5
Sora (OpenAI)Not rated
Veo / Flow (Google)2 of 5
Vidu3 of 5
Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang)4 of 5

Inclusion rule. Tools rated on this rubric: a public English product page addressing at least four of the seven criteria. An unrated cell means nothing usable is published. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.

2Strong in the middle of the pipeline, silent at both ends

Picture and sound both reach five, which only one other entry manages on both. What is missing sits either side: nothing published about turning a script into structure, and nothing about joining finished segments.

For a single strong shot that shape is ideal. For forty episodes it means the two ends of the work stay with a person, and neither appears on a rate card.

3What the sound rating rests on

Generated speech arriving with the picture, in named languages, is what earns a five on that column. Naming the languages is the part that matters: a multilingual claim without a list cannot be planned against, and most entries here do not publish one.

How the sound column is defined is on the sound page.

4Cells on this row with a page of their own

Values on this row held by at most two of the rated tools, each read against the column it sits in: Hailuo, sound. A value in the crowded middle of a column is left on the criterion page.

Ratings describe what Hailuo (MiniMax) publishes on its own pages, read 2026-09-12. They are not measurements of output quality, and the vendor is not consulted before a rating appears. The rule behind each criterion is on how scoring works; all sixteen tools together are on the ratings table. Next: invideo AI, Morph Studio.