Hailuo AI is an AI video creation platform from MiniMax that helps users generate videos from text, images, and visual references. It brings multiple AI video models into one workspace, allowing creators to produce social media videos, product advertisements, cinematic scenes, animations, marketing content, and other visual projects without advanced video production skills.
Hailuo AI supports Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, and reference-based video generation. Users can turn written ideas, product images, characters, illustrations, and other visual concepts into dynamic video content.
Social media videos
Product advertisements
E-commerce product videos
Marketing campaigns
Cinematic scenes
Brand videos
Explainer videos
Storyboards
Character animation
Game visuals
Music videos
Creative experiments
Short films
Promotional content
Its multimodal workflows can combine different types of references, including images, video, audio, characters, and camera movement, giving creators more control over the final output.
Hailuo AI Models & Sub-Models
A newer multimodal video model that can work with text, images, video, and audio. It supports 5–15 second video generation with native stereo sound, character and motion references, targeted edits, and output up to 2K resolution.
A video generation model focused on smoother motion, stronger visual consistency, facial expressions, and commercial or product-focused scenes. It supports Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video generation with 768p and 1080p options and 6- or 10-second clips.
A faster version of Hailuo 2.3 designed for quicker and more economical video generation and iteration.
An earlier-generation Hailuo video model that remains part of the platform's broader video-generation ecosystem.
The original Hailuo model family, including specialised workflows such as Hailuo 1.0-Director for camera-direction-based creation and Hailuo 1.0-Live for animating illustrations.
Google's video generation model available through the Hailuo AI workspace, providing another option for high-resolution video generation and native audio.
OpenAI's video model available within Hailuo AI, providing another option for generating videos with physics-aware visuals and audio capabilities.
ByteDance's video generation model, available through the platform, with Fast and mini variants for different generation needs.
Hailuo Video Agent
An agent-style workflow designed for building more complex videos by visually connecting multiple generation steps and concepts. It supports tutorials, explainers, narratives, short films, and projects with multiple connected scenes.
Key Features
Text-to-Video generation
Image-to-Video generation
Reference-based video creation
Multimodal video generation
AI-generated audio
Character references
Motion references
Camera movement control
AI video editing
Product video creation
Cinematic video generation
Multiple AI video models in one workspace
Video Agent workflows
Fast video generation options
High-resolution video generation
Pricing
Free: Hailuo AI offers limited free access with generation credits. Free users may have queue-based generation and watermarked downloads.
Paid: Paid plans use subscriptions and credits. Depending on the plan and model, users can receive additional credits, faster generation priority, and watermark-free downloads.
Free Trial: New users may receive promotional credits or trial access depending on the current offers. Pricing, credits, and promotional terms can change over time.
Best Use Cases
Hailuo AI is designed for AI video creators, marketers, e-commerce brands, social media managers, advertisers, filmmakers, designers, and businesses.
It can be used to transform product images into promotional videos, create social media content, visualise creative concepts, develop cinematic scenes, produce advertising assets, create storyboards, and experiment with different AI video models.
The multimodal capabilities of MiniMax H3 can be particularly useful for projects requiring multiple references, consistent characters, controlled motion, audio, and iterative video creation.