Alternatives to Hailuo AI

MiniMax's web app for creating AI videos and images from text prompts or photos. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

The original

  • Hailuo AI

    MiniMax's web app for creating AI videos and images from text prompts or photos.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Hailuo AI.

  • Kling AI

    An AI studio for generating images and videos from text, images and references.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Kling AI generates images and video from text, images and multimodal references, adding storyboarding and native audio generation.

  • Runway

    A web creative platform for generating and editing video, images and audio with AI.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Runway covers video, image and audio generation and editing on its own models, with little detail on limits given on its homepage.

  • PixVerse

    An AI video generation platform that turns text prompts and images into video clips.

    PixVerse offers text-to-video and image-to-video with character consistency, plus a command-line tool, node-based canvas and built-in lip sync.

  • Vidu

    An AI video generator that makes clips from text prompts, images and reference material.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Vidu generates up to 16 seconds of video with audio per clip, supports reference-to-video and offers an API platform for developers.

  • Luma

    A creative agent app from Luma Labs for generating and editing images and video.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Luma is a creative agent app that keeps context across a project and adds video editing such as relighting and motion transfer.

  • Higgsfield

    A web and mobile creative suite for generating and editing AI images, video and voice.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Higgsfield brings many generation models for image, video and voice together with editing and upscaling, though its pricing changes frequently.

  • FramePack

    Local image-to-video generator that predicts frames progressively so it runs on consumer GPUs.

    FramePack is free, Apache-2.0 image-to-video software that runs locally on a gaming GPU, slower than hosted services and needing a Python setup.

  • Morph Studio

    A web suite for AI image and video generation that uses several third-party models.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Morph Studio uses several third-party models and an Open Canvas for arranging generated clips into longer stories.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Hailuo AI as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Kaiber

    An AI video platform for making music-synced videos, animations and talking characters.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Hailuo AI from MiniMax offers text-to-video and image-to-video with social templates and a freemium plan, with uploads processed on MiniMax's servers.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Krea

    A browser-based suite for generating and upscaling images and video with AI, including real-time generation.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb
  • Leonardo AI

    A generative AI platform for creating, editing, animating and upscaling images and video from prompts.

  • Hedra

    An AI studio and API for generating video, images and talking avatars.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb
  • Magnific

    An online AI creative platform for generating and upscaling images, video and audio, formerly Freepik.

    PaidProprietaryWeb
  • invideo AI

    A browser-based video editor where AI agents cut and edit footage from plain-language instructions.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb