HeyGen
HeyGen's first video model sells from 1 cent a second
HeyGen Video is a fine-tune of MiniMax's H3 model and generates 5 to 15 second clips with their own audio, at half its regular price through October.
MiniMax H3
Every SLOP TV News story about MiniMax H3.
Perplexity
Perplexity Computer adds MiniMax H3 and Seedance 2.5 video
The agentic workspace gains two video models alongside Veo 3.1, but Perplexity has published no generation quotas, export formats or licensing terms.
HelloGen
HelloGen sells unlimited AI video on one model for $19.90
The service removed per-clip charging on MiniMax H3 and published a floor instead, with Pro subscribers guaranteed two priority renders a day and Max five.
AI video pricing
The 7 Cheapest AI Video APIs Right Now, Ranked by Price Per Second
MiniMax H3 through a speed-tuned reseller undercuts everything at $0.02 per output second, while ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 is the priciest name that still publishes a real rate.
pricing
AI video is now a price war measured in cents per second
A launch discount briefly makes Alibaba's Wan 3.0 cheaper per second than its own predecessor Wan 2.7, and that discount, like Pruna AI's, ends September 24.
Sora
OpenAI's Sora API Shuts Down Sept. 24: Where Its 4 Biggest Jobs Go Next
OpenAI's Videos API and every sora-2 model ID go dark September 24, and the replacements price per second, not per token, across Google, Alibaba, fal and Black Forest Labs.
Pika
Pika relaunches as a studio that makes 3-minute AI videos
Semafor reports the rebuilt Pika turns basic details into an editable shot list and picks the AI model for each job, and its site lists Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 and Pika 2.5.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 add-ons multiply as downloads hit 4.3 million a month
September brought Video Rebirth's 8-step HyperFlow speed-up, a keyboard-driven world model called H3-World, TaoMate-H3, RefMods and a faster ComfyUI decoder.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3's free license excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea
The MiniMax H3 Community License is royalty-free and allows commercial work, but it carves out four territories, a $20 million revenue ceiling and a ban on training other models.
LTX-2.5
The 5 best AI video models to run yourself: LTX-2.5 tops Wan 2.2
August's releases from Lightricks and MiniMax reshuffled the open-weights field, but license territory clauses and VRAM needs decide which models creators can actually use.