Two stops, and you know both prices
Hailuo 2.3 renders six seconds or ten. Nothing in between, and nothing longer. That is the point: the composer prices two cells rather than a range, so a shot list costs what you expected when the last take lands. Start from a prompt or from a single still.
1080p is the six second stop
The catalog locks 1080p to the six second take. Ten seconds renders at 768p. Pick the stop first and the resolution follows, and the composer refuses the pair it cannot dispatch rather than quoting it.
The six second take costs the same at either resolution
The rate card prices this model by length alone. Six seconds is ⚡100 at 768p and ⚡100 at 1080p, because the tier is not a billing axis here. So there is no reason to draft at the lower tier: if you are rendering six seconds, render them at 1080p. The only price step on this model is the one from six seconds to ten.
There is no frame chip, and that is a catalog fact
The feed serves Hailuo 2.3 two fields, length and resolution. It publishes no aspect ratio at all, which is why the composer shows no frame chip on this model and why every text prompt comes back widescreen. A vertical take needs the frame to arrive as a still: attach one 9:16 reference, or run Hailuo 2.3 Fast, which takes its shape from the image you give it. If you want to pick 9:16 from a chip, that is MiniMax H3, which publishes seven frames including 21:9.
What this model is actually good at
MiniMax builds Hailuo around faces and characters. Expression carries: a laugh arrives, a brow lifts, a look lands on the lens and holds. Stylized characters and animal motion hold up in the same way. It is a shorter, cheaper instrument than the long-take models, and the six second stop is where it does its best work.
Hailuo 2.3 Fast, when you already have the frame
Hailuo 2.3 Fast runs the same two stops at 768p from ⚡68, and it needs a still to start. It is the sketch pass: turn the frame you already have into motion, then decide whether the shot is worth a finish.
Where 2.3 sits in the line
MiniMax H3 is the current MiniMax line, and it is the one to open first. Hailuo 2.3 is the earlier release. It stays live because two stops at one narrow price band is a different job from a flagship brief. Move up to H3 when the shot needs references, a chosen frame shape, or a take past ten seconds. It reads up to nine stills and delivers 2K. Same wallet, same library, one chip away in the composer.