You stop guessing what a take will cost. Hailuo 2.3 renders six seconds or ten. Two stops, one narrow price band.
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● Shot on Hailuo 2.3
Expression, motion and light at the 1080p stop. One prompt each, nothing attached.
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“A night-market vendor mid-service looks up from the griddle and breaks into a laugh at something off frame, steam rising between him and the lens, string bulbs behind him going soft in the bokeh, 50mm, handheld, no on-screen text”
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“An old man pours tea from a battered enamel pot into a wide ceramic teacup resting on its saucer, steam lifting off the surface as it fills, then he looks up at the camera with a slow crease of a smile, dusty window light, lined face in sharp detail, 50mm”
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“Tight on a violinist's face and shoulder as she leans into a phrase, eyes closing, jaw tightening on the bow stroke, single window light from camera left, dark rehearsal room, 85mm”
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“A child in yellow rubber boots crouches over a puddle on a wet pavement, then jumps with both feet, the splash rising past the lens as she squeals, overcast afternoon light, low camera at puddle height”
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“A chef finishes a plate under a pass light, sets the tweezers down, straightens and gives one short satisfied nod, kitchen depth blurred behind him, warm tungsten key, 85mm, shallow focus”
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“A border collie runs across mown grass and leaps to catch a plain flying disc, twisting in the air and landing into a skid, late golden light behind it, camera tracking level with the dog”
● Release notes
Chapter 01 · The stops
Six seconds or ten. Two cells to price, not twelve.
Chapter 02 · Charm
Expression is what this line is tuned for.
Chapter 03 · The tier
The six second stop renders at 1080p. Ten stays 768p.
Chapter 04 · Range
Not only live action. Drawn and 3D looks stay stable.
● Proof pack
Our own renders, each with the brief that made it.
[Pan right] A fox in a tiny scarf runs across a snowy rooftop at night, stylized 3D animation look, city lights below, vertical framing
[Zoom in] A clumsy penguin slides on its belly across an ice floe and bumps into two others who wobble and stare back, flat arctic light
[Tilt up] A girl flies a kite in a wheat field, the camera tilts from her hands up the string to the kite against a blue sky, wind in the wheat
Two people sit across a small table in a warm room, one talking and one listening, and the listener's face changes as the story lands, a smile arriving just before she answers, 85mm, shallow focus, no on-screen text
A woman alone in a dark cinema watches something off frame, the projected light shifting across her face from cool blue to warm white, reflections moving in her eyes, she draws a slow breath and her expression softens, 85mm, shallow focus
Inside a parked car at night, a child's hand traces a raindrop down the inside of the window, street lights smearing into wide coloured circles beyond the wet glass, the wipers still, 50mm close on the hand and the glass
● The long stop
A throw, a roll and a storm, each finished inside the take. 768p is the tier this stop renders.
Hailuo 2.3 · 10s
“Macro on a potter throwing on a wheel: the right hand braced against the outside of the wet spinning clay and the left hand pressed inside against the same point, the two pulling upward together in one slow steady lift so the wall climbs and thins, wet slip running down the fingers and pooling on the wheel head, side light”
Hailuo 2.3 · 10s
“A skateboarder in a plain unbranded grey hoodie and dark jeans rolls across a concrete plaza, pops one clean ollie over a low ledge about two seconds in, lands it square and then simply keeps rolling away down the plaza for the whole rest of the take. That single jump is the only trick in the shot, hard afternoon shadows, full body in frame, low wide lens at deck height”
Hailuo 2.3 · 10s
“Locked-off on a farmhouse window with the storm already breaking, heavy rain sheeting down the glass from the very first frame, water running and rippling across the pane, wind dragging at the trees in the dark grey field beyond, one flash of lightning lifting the room for an instant”
● Two ways in
Write one line and render. Subject, motion, light, and the model fills the rest. The take comes back widescreen. The feed publishes no frame field here. Six seconds is the stop worth starting on. Lift setups off the community wall.
Attach one still and the frame follows it. This ring was a generated frame first, then the same frame moving. Widescreen in, widescreen out. A 9:16 still is how the line renders vertical. Hailuo 2.3 Fast does it for less.
● Use cases
Creator content, product, food, fashion and pets. One prompt, one take, one price.
UGCHandheld selfie framing and a real kitchen behind her.
MacroOne rim light sweeping the glaze, steam off the top.
100mmA spoon breaks the top and the cream slides off.
WalkHard overhead light making pools she walks through.
85mmPupils widen, the tail flicks once, then it holds.
● Product and studio
The earlier wave. Macro product work from 2.3, and four squares from 2.3 Fast.
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“Generate a video, real kitchen footage, 85mm macro: fresh strawberries and blueberries drop one after another into the clear double-walled glass jug of a matte sage-green personal blender standing on pale stone, splashing into the thick pink smoothie, which swirls and climbs the glass wall.”
Hailuo 2.3 Fast · 6s
“Generate a gold ring sparkling on velvet”
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“Generate a video, a real macro footage, 100mm lens, high frame rate: a single plain white leather sneaker with a cream rubber sole drops into frame onto a smooth pale sage floor, lands, bounces once and settles as the laces whip and fall. Fine dust puffs up on impact.”
Hailuo 2.3 Fast · 6s
“Make a perfume bottle spraying golden mist”
Hailuo 2.3 · 6s
“Generate a video, real fashion footage, 85mm lens: a cropped black leather biker jacket hangs on a slim rail against a warm charcoal backdrop and is caught by a gust of wind. The hem swings, the open front panels lift and fall, the sleeves sway, and the grained leather catches moving specular highlights.”
Hailuo 2.3 Fast · 6s
“Make a vintage globe spinning in a cozy study”
Hailuo 2.3 Fast · 6s
“Generate a basketball swishing through the net”
● One model, ten disciplines
Faces, product and animal motion inside a six second take.
● The sheet
Read from the live catalog. The composer quotes your exact render before it runs.
| Model | Specs | ⚡ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hailuo 2.3hailuo-2.3 | Budget workhorse for fast iteration.768P / 1080P · up to 10s | from ⚡100from $0.41 | Generate → |
| Hailuo 2.3 Fasthailuo-2.3-fast | Quick image-to-video at 768P.768P · up to 10s | from ⚡66from $0.27 | Generate → |
● The sheet
2.3 owns the cheap six second take. Fast needs a still. H3 owns everything longer.
| Spec | Hailuo 2.3 | Hailuo 2.3 Fast | MiniMax H3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Length | Hailuo 2.36s or 10s | Hailuo 2.3 Fast6s or 10s | MiniMax H34s to 15s |
| Resolution | Hailuo 2.3768p or 1080p | Hailuo 2.3 Fast768p | MiniMax H3768p or 2K |
| Frame | Hailuo 2.3Widescreen only | Hailuo 2.3 FastFollows the still | MiniMax H3Seven, up to 21:9 |
| Starts from | Hailuo 2.3Prompt or still | Hailuo 2.3 FastA still, always | MiniMax H3Prompt or stills |
| Reference stills | Hailuo 2.3One | Hailuo 2.3 FastOne | MiniMax H3Up to nine |
| Sound | Hailuo 2.3Silent | Hailuo 2.3 FastSilent | MiniMax H3Silent |
| From | Hailuo 2.3⚡100 | Hailuo 2.3 Fast⚡66 | MiniMax H3⚡39 |
Every row reads the live catalog. A cell the composer cannot dispatch is never quoted to you.
● Quoted first
From ⚡100 (from $0.41).
From ⚡66 (from $0.27).
From ⚡39 (from $0.16).
Two stops means two prices, and the ten second take is the dearer one. The composer quotes the exact ⚡ before anything runs. The ⚡50 signup grant is there to try the roster on cheap settings. Packs start at $10/800⚡.
● How to
Three steps from an empty box to a finished take. The page works logged out. Sign-in gates the render only.
Press a themeIt loads a real prompt
“A night-market vendor mid-service looks up from the griddle and breaks into a laugh at something off frame, steam rising between him and the lens, string bulbs behind him going soft in the bokeh, 50mm, handheld, no on-screen text”
“A border collie runs across mown grass and leaps to catch a plain flying disc, twisting in the air and landing into a skid, late golden light behind it, camera tracking level with the dog”
“A plain matte ceramic mug turns slowly on a dark stone surface as a single warm rim light sweeps across the glaze, steam curling off the top, macro lens, shallow depth of field, unbranded”
01 ·
≈ 1 min
A theme loads the brief that rendered it. Or write your own: subject, motion, light.
02 ·
≈ 10 sec
Six seconds reaches 1080p. Ten renders at 768p. Attach one still to set the frame.
03 ·
≈ 2 min
The price sits on the button before anything runs.
● OpenClips MCP
No console and no syntax. Your agent briefs Hailuo 2.3 through the OpenClips MCP server. It quotes before it renders.
https://mcp.openclips.aiStep 01
One sentence is the brief. Subject, motion, platform.
Step 02
Six seconds or ten, with the ⚡ quote attached.
Step 03
Download it, remix it, or ship it. Credits settle automatically.
● Director's notes
Four habits that keep a six second take off the re-roll pile.
Name the expression and its turn. A laugh arriving beats a person smiling.
Write the beat, not the mood
Six seconds holds a single move. Two actions arrive half-finished.
One move, start to finish
The model publishes no frame field. Your reference decides the shape.
9:16 in, 9:16 out
The lower tier costs the same. Drafting at 768p saves nothing.
Skip the draft tier
● From the community
Real takes from real accounts. Open one and remix the setup.
“Between rounds in a boxer's corner: the fighter breathes hard on the stool while the cutman works at his brow, then lifts his eyes to something off frame”
OC StudioHailuo 2.3
“A ballerina turns one slow pirouette in an empty studio, the skirt lifting and settling as she comes round, window light across the floor”
OC StudioHailuo 2.3
“A lone figure in a long coat crosses a bridge in heavy rain at night, sodium lamps flaring through the downpour and headlights smearing past on the wet road”
OC StudioHailuo 2.3
● From the blog
Prompt CraftSix beats that turn one line of text into a trailer-grade clip.
Read it →
Prompt CraftWhich frame wins where, and how to compose for it before you render.
Read it →
Studio NewsOne wallet, every model, and where the free signup grant goes.
Read it →● Questions
Six seconds or ten, and nothing else. The length is a two-option field rather than a slider, which is why the price band is so narrow. For a take that runs to fifteen seconds, cast MiniMax H3 instead.
The six second take reaches 1080p. The ten second take renders at 768p, which is also the default. The composer enforces that pairing, so a combination the model refuses is never quoted to you.
No. The rate card prices this model by length, not by tier, so the six second take is ⚡100 at either resolution. Ten seconds is ⚡115 (from $0.47) and renders at 768p only. There is no reason to draft at the lower tier on the short stop.
The catalog publishes no aspect ratio field for this model, so the composer shows no frame chip and a text prompt comes back widescreen. To render square or vertical, attach a still in that shape and the take follows it. If you want to pick the frame from a chip, MiniMax H3 publishes seven of them, 21:9 included.
Yes, by starting from a 9:16 still rather than from a chip. Hailuo 2.3 takes one optional reference and keeps its own tiers on that path, so a six second vertical take still reaches 1080p. Hailuo 2.3 Fast is the sibling that requires a still and renders 768p only, which makes it the cheaper route when the frame is all you need.
Faces and characters. MiniMax tunes this line for expression, so a reaction, a laugh or a look holding on the lens is where it beats models that cost more. Stylized characters and animal motion hold up on the same six second stop.
No. A prompt on its own renders a take, and one reference image is optional. Hailuo 2.3 Fast is the sibling that does require a still, and it is the cheaper way to put motion on a frame you already have.
No. The take comes back silent and there is no audio switch on the render. Cast Veo 3.1 when the shot needs sound in the same pass. One wallet covers both models.
Stay on 2.3 when the length is settled and the brief is one line, from ⚡100. Move to MiniMax H3 when you need references, a chosen frame shape, 2K, or a longer take. Both run in the same composer against the same wallet.
● The receipts
Every link goes to the vendor's own page.
Pick the stop. See the ⚡ first. Then render.
Generate with Hailuo 2.3Or roll with a sibling model
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.
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 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.
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.
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 runs the same two stops at 768p from ⚡66, 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.
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.
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