Hailuo 02
MiniMax's physics-first video model — native 1080p with excellent complex motion at aggressive pricing.
About
Hailuo 02 (June 18, 2025) is MiniMax's video model built around physics: the proprietary Noise-aware Compute Redistribution (NCR) architecture targets compute at high-error diffusion timesteps, yielding excellent complex motion (sports, action, physical comedy) at native 1080p, up to 10 seconds, from text or image prompts. Early internal version placed 2nd globally on Artificial Analysis image-to-video (provider-cited).
Closed and commercial: API from $0.096/second — aggressive pricing its boosters call "top tier at 10% of the cost" (treat cost-comparison framing as third-party commentary, not verified). Note: superseded by Hailuo 2.3 (Oct 2025) and MiniMax H3 (multimodal with native audio) — evaluate the current generation for new builds; 02 remains where providers expose it. No native dialogue audio (unlike Veo 3/Sora 2).
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-cited (Artificial Analysis I2V, early internal version): 2nd globally — treat as provider-cited. Independent standardized scores are limited.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). Excellent physics-heavy motion at genuinely aggressive pricing, with a provider-cited #2 Artificial Analysis placement. Docked four points: (1) superseded by 2.3 and H3 — don't default to 02 for new builds; (2) no native dialogue audio; (3) benchmark placement is provider-cited; (4) closed, and pricing flows through aggregators with varying rates. A value pick for action-heavy silent video.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.2/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · provider-cited #2 on Artificial Analysis I2V; aggressive $0.096/s pricing; no public adoption metric
- · released 482 days ago
- · manual review: physics-heavy motion at value pricing; superseded by 2.3/H3; no native dialogue audio; license: proprietary — API/app; no weights