MiniMax H3 video is 50% off on Vercel AI Gateway through Sept 13
The Gateway just cut sound-on 2K video to $0.13 a second for both H3 and H3 Max. Plus: Anthropic opens a spec for agents that drive physical hardware.
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Half off, both models, through Sept 13
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max video generation are 50% off on Vercel AI Gateway until September 13, model IDs unchanged (minimax/minimax-h3). Output drops from $0.26 to $0.13 per second and input from $0.08 to $0.04 per image — so a 10-second clip runs about $1.30 instead of $2.60.
What $0.13 a second buys
H3 is omni-modal: 5–15 second 2K clips at 24fps with native 32kHz stereo audio across 11 languages, conditioned on text plus up to 9 reference images and video or audio clips. That's half-price b-roll with synced sound already baked in, not a silent render you still have to score.
Why the API beats the weights here
H3's weights are open but ship under the MiniMax H3 Community License, not a permissive one — reports flag commercial and regional strings on self-hosting. For a two-week promo, calling it through the Gateway is cheaper and cleaner than standing up your own 2K-video GPU box.
Weekend build: sound-on ad cuts, batched
Feed product stills as reference images, prompt 10–15s cuts, and pull 2K clips with voiceover or SFX in a single pass for roughly $1.30–$1.95 each before the price resets. Want a local fallback with no per-second meter? Lightricks' LTX-Desktop runs LTX-2.5 on a 16GB NVIDIA card or Apple Silicon.
Elsewhere: Anthropic opens a hardware spec for agents
Anthropic started a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a shared spec for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, seeded to science labs and advanced manufacturers. Nothing to ship today, but it's the first move toward a common interface for agent-to-hardware control.