About Hailuo AI
Hailuo AI is a consumer and creator platform from MiniMax for generating video and images with AI. Users start from a text description or from photos, and the site targets social content creators, offering video, image, audio and meme-style tools in a single web interface.
The homepage features the MiniMax H3 model, which it describes as supporting native multimodal generation and precise multimodal editing for production-ready content. Creation tools include an Omni Reference option for supplying reference material, a Hailuo Agent, a gallery of trending templates and effects, tutorials on open-weight projects and creative workflows, and a survey that earns credits.
Hailuo AI offers a subscription with a pricing page, and some templates are marked free. A note on the site asks users to use generated content legally and in a friendly manner. It is a hosted product and no self-hosted option is described.
Key features
- Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- Image generation from prompts
- Omni Reference for visual guidance
- Hailuo Agent for creative tasks
- Template gallery of trending effects
- Audio and meme tools
Good fit for
- →Making short social videos from a photo
- →Generating images for posts
- →Experimenting with video effects templates
- Tags
- ai-video
- video-generation
- image-generation
- minimax
- text-to-video
- creators
- saas
Hailuo AI: questions and answers
- What is Hailuo AI used for?
- Hailuo AI is an AI video and image generator from MiniMax that creates clips from text and photos, with reference tools, an agent and subscription plans. It is a good fit for making short social videos from a photo, generating images for posts and experimenting with video effects templates.
- Is Hailuo AI free?
- Yes. Hailuo AI has a free plan.
- Is Hailuo AI open source?
- No. Hailuo AI is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Hailuo AI include Open Generative AI, DramaClaw and ArcReel.
- What are some alternatives to Hailuo AI?
- Hailuo AI competes with Kling AI, Runway and Pika. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Hailuo AI alternatives.
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