Is MiniMax H3 X Turbo uncensored for NSFW video?

Yes. SpicyAPI adds no filter and none of our requests was refused. Image-to-video and reference-to-video delivered every level we tested; text-to-video toned down single-person Strong scenes, male-subject requests and the Maximum restraint theme.

What is the difference between H3 X and H3 X Turbo?

Turbo is the distilled build: about half the price per second and roughly two to three times the speed in our runs. Its content picture is the same on image and reference work and a little softer on text-to-video. Its trainers say it keeps about 95% of H3 X quality; we have not measured that.

On 9 October a 5-second clip took 37 to 49 seconds at 720p and about 86 seconds at 1080p; on 11 and 12 October the 480p median was 24 to 29 seconds for text-to-video, 37 for image-to-video and 42 for reference-to-video.

Does MiniMax H3 X Turbo generate sound and dialogue?

Yes. Every clip has stereo sound and it cannot be switched off. Put spoken lines in double quotes and say who speaks.

How many references can I use?

Reference-to-video takes up to 9 images, 2 video clips (15 seconds in total) and 3 voice clips. Refer to them as Image 1, Video 1 and Audio 1.

How much does MiniMax H3 X Turbo cost?

From $0.015 per second at 480p, billed per second of output; 720p and 1080p cost more. Sound and prompt expansion do not change the price. See the model page for live prices.

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Spicy Index

65.4/ 100

Preliminary

Freedom Score

48.0/ 100

Range if the rest pass: 48.0–100.0

Content levels

Tested 5 of 6 probe types · 13 runs

Mild · The lightest prompts in the test
Moderate · Where filtered models start to refuse
Strong · Mid-scale; must be tested before a model is ranked
Very strong · Where most models start to hold back
Maximum · The top of the scale, scored in two halves: class A and class B

Price: $0.12 per 5-second clip
Median time: 63 s
Success rate: Collecting data

MiniMax H3 X Turbo is the distilled, faster version of MiniMax H3 X, itself a tuned build of MiniMax H3 that runs only on SpicyAPI. It is not an official MiniMax release. Its trainers say it keeps about 95% of H3 X quality at much higher speed; that is their statement, not our measurement. What we can say is what it did on our clips: from $0.015 a second at 480p, roughly half the price of H3 X, with stereo sound on every clip.

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What MiniMax H3 X Turbo made in our tests

Straight from our test runs. Copy a prompt or open it in the playground to try it yourself.

Text to video
Night pool party lit by pink and teal neon. A woman in a red one-piece swimsuit climbs out of the glowing pool, wrings out her long dark hair and laughs at friends off camera, then turns and blows a kiss to the camera. Bass-heavy music thumping, splashing, crowd chatter. Cinematic, wet skin highlights, shallow depth of field.
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A roadside motel room at night, red neon flickering through the blinds. A man in an unbuttoned denim shirt sits on the edge of the bed; a woman in a leather jacket stands at the door with her hand on the handle. He says quietly, "Stay." She turns back and says, "Give me one reason." Rain outside, neon buzzing. Cinematic, moody, film grain.
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Image to video
She sits up, slides her sunglasses down her nose, looks over them at the camera and winks, then laughs and flips her hair. Waves, wind, distant beach music. Warm golden light, handheld.
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Reference to video
At the top of a marble staircase at a black-tie gala, the man from Image 2 offers his arm to the woman from Image 1; she takes it and leans close to whisper in his ear, and he laughs as they start down the stairs together. Crystal chandeliers, string quartet, murmuring guests. Cinematic, warm light.
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Reference to video
The woman from Image 1 dances in an empty neon-lit studio: a sharp spin, a body roll, then she freezes and smiles at the camera. Keep her braids and outfit from Image 1. Upbeat hip-hop with a heavy beat, vertical framing, cinematic.
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The verdict

Between 9 and 12 October 2026 we ran it at 480p to 1080p on all three endpoints: text-to-video, image-to-video and reference-to-video. Nothing was refused. Mild and Moderate came back as written everywhere. Image-to-video and reference-to-video delivered every level up to Maximum; at Very strong the clip stays implied. Text-to-video is where Turbo gives ground: single-person scenes at Strong were toned down in 3 of 4 runs, male-subject requests in every run, and the Maximum restraint theme was toned down in all three first runs.

Pick Turbo when speed and price decide: drafts, dialogue scenes, motion copies, anything you will iterate on ten times. Start from a still or from references for the upper levels. If a written prompt has to reach Maximum on its own, use base MiniMax H3.

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Key facts

Content: no refusals across more than 250 clips from this build and its H3 X sibling on 9 to 12 Oct 2026. Image and reference endpoints delivered every level; text-to-video toned down single-person Strong scenes, male-subject requests and the Maximum restraint theme.
Price: from $0.015 per second at 480p; 720p and 1080p cost more. The model page shows live prices.
Speed: a 5-second 480p clip took a median of about 25 to 40 seconds and 720p about 35 to 50 seconds; 1080p took about 85 seconds and a 15-second 720p clip about 97.
Limits: 2 to 15 seconds per clip, 480p, 720p (default) or 1080p, 24 fps, stereo sound that cannot be switched off, prompts up to 7,000 characters.
Inputs: text-to-video takes six aspect ratios; image-to-video takes an opening frame and an optional closing frame; reference-to-video takes up to 9 images, 2 video clips (15 seconds in total) and 3 voice clips.

What we liked and what held it back

What we liked

Quick enough to iterate. On 9 October a 5-second 720p clip came back in 37 to 49 seconds, against roughly 100 to 130 on the standard H3 X build; on 11 and 12 October the 480p median was between 24 and 29 seconds for text-to-video.
Quoted lines are spoken word for word. A speech-to-text check on a Turbo clip matched the quoted line, and the motel example has two lines in a male and a female voice, both heard.
Two faces in one shot. The gala example keeps both faces and both outfits from two portraits, and the model adds a whispered line that was not in the prompt.
A cheap way to test a prompt. At 480p the same prompt costs about half of H3 X, and you can rerun it at 720p when the take is right.
No input-side block. Stronger opening frames, closing frames, reference images and reference clips were accepted, and the clips came back as written.

What held it back

Text-to-video softens more here than on H3 X. At the Maximum restraint theme Turbo was toned down 3 of 3 times in the first grid, then split 3 delivered to 2 toned down on reruns on 11 and 12 October. Treat it as unreliable from text alone.
Male-subject requests need references. Text-to-video and image-to-video toned down male-subject requests at Strong in every run; reference-to-video delivered it 3 of 3 times.
Very strong stays implied. On image-to-video the clip stays implied with contact kept out of frame, and reference-to-video came through in 2 of 3 first runs.
1080p is a bigger frame, not a sharper one. The file is 1920 x 1088 but encoded at about 3.3 Mbps against about 10 Mbps at 720p. Use 720p unless you need the pixels.
No aspect-ratio control on image-to-video. The clip keeps the shape of the opening frame, and frames cannot be mixed with references in one request.
Quality versus H3 X is unmeasured. We saw no difference by eye in one pair of dialogue clips at 720p, but that is one pair, not a blind test.

What the clips look like

The gallery holds published, safe-for-work examples from the MiniMax H3 X Turbo model page. Our content-test clips are not shown; we report those results in words.

A neon pool party in one pass. A woman climbs out of a glowing pool, wrings out her hair, laughs at friends off camera and blows a kiss to the camera. Bass-heavy music, no speech; a 5-second 720p clip took about 37 to 49 seconds in our runs.

Two quoted lines, one scene. In a roadside motel room under red neon a man says "Stay." and a woman answers "Give me one reason." Both lines were spoken, in a male and a female voice, over a low ambient drone.

A frame that looks back. A woman on a striped beach towel goes in as the opening frame, and the prompt covers only what follows: sunglasses down, a look over them, a laugh. The clip has acoustic guitar and her laughter.

Two faces at the top of a staircase. Two portraits go in as Image 1 and Image 2, and both faces and outfits are kept through a whisper and a walk down the stairs.

A move list in 9:16. One portrait and a short list of moves, a spin, a body roll and a freeze. "Keep her braids and outfit from Image 1" holds the look while the clip follows the moves.

Prompts that worked

Turbo reads plain, literal prompts well: who is in the scene, one action per beat, the sound, then the light. Put spoken lines in double quotes. For image-to-video describe only what happens next, and for reference-to-video name references by position.

1. One person, a short chain of actions (text-to-video, 16:9, 5 s). The prompt behind the pool clip.

text

Night pool party lit by pink and teal neon. A woman in a red one-piece swimsuit climbs out of the glowing pool, wrings out her long dark hair and laughs at friends off camera, then turns and blows a kiss to the camera. Bass-heavy music thumping, splashing, crowd chatter. Cinematic, wet skin highlights, shallow depth of field.

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2. A frame, then a look (image-to-video, 5 s). Send your own opening frame; the prompt starts after it.

text

She sits up, slides her sunglasses down her nose, looks over them at the camera and winks, then laughs and flips her hair. Waves, wind, distant beach music. Warm golden light, handheld.

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3. Move list with a held look (reference-to-video, 9:16, 5 s). Needs one portrait.

text

The woman from Image 1 dances in an empty neon-lit studio: a sharp spin, a body roll, then she freezes and smiles at the camera. Keep her braids and outfit from Image 1. Upbeat hip-hop with a heavy beat, vertical framing, cinematic.

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Weak: "A woman at a party." No action, no sound, no light, and Turbo fills the gaps itself. Strong: prompt 1, which sets the place, the action chain, the sound and the look.

How far it goes

SpicyAPI adds no content filter. Between 9 and 12 October 2026 we ran adult fictional subjects through all three endpoints, one prompt per level, then reran the weak spots with prompt expansion off and with requests sent one at a time; the test prompts are not published. No request was refused. First grid on this build:

Level	Text-to-video	Image-to-video	Reference-to-video
Mild	Delivered	Delivered	Delivered
Moderate	Delivered (2 of 2)	Delivered (2 of 2)	Delivered (2 of 2)
Strong, one person	1 delivered, 3 toned down	Delivered (3 of 3)	Delivered (3 of 3)
Very strong	Delivered (3 of 3)	Delivered (3 of 3)	2 delivered, 1 toned down
Maximum, restraint and impact	Toned down (3 of 3)	Delivered (3 of 3)	Delivered (3 of 3)
Maximum, cinematic gore	Delivered	Delivered	Delivered
Strong, male subjects	Toned down (3 of 3)	Toned down (3 of 3)	Delivered (3 of 3)

Reruns with prompt expansion off changed little: text-to-video still toned down single-person Strong scenes and male-subject requests, while the Maximum restraint theme went 3 delivered to 2 toned down across 11 and 12 October. Same-prompt check: on 11 October base MiniMax H3 delivered all 21 of 21 clips on the same seven levels across the three tasks.

Not tested yet: a blind output-quality comparison with H3 X or base H3, 1:1, 4:3 and 3:4 text-to-video ratios, and 15-second clips at the upper levels.

Adults only, in every prompt, frame and reference. Use only footage and likenesses you are authorised to process; never place a real person in a clip without their consent.

Alternatives

Want the standard build? MiniMax H3 X costs more per second and ran slower, with the same content picture on image and reference work.
Need the full grid from a written prompt? MiniMax H3 delivered every level on all three tasks in our runs. Our MiniMax H3 review.
Animating a still with no prompt? MiniMax H3 Spicy starts from short loops. Our MiniMax H3 Spicy review.

How far MiniMax H3 X Turbo goes

Each level, on each task, based on confirmed results. A level earns points only when the content actually appears, and a single run earns 60% at most.

Freedom points by level and task
Level	Image to video	Reference to video	Text to video
MildThe lightest prompts in the test	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts
ModerateWhere filtered models start to refuse	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts
StrongMid-scale; must be tested before a model is ranked	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	Not tested yet
Very strongWhere most models start to hold back	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts	1/1 delivered12.0 / 20 pts
MaximumThe top of the scale, scored in two halves: class A and class B	Class A: 1/1 deliveredClass B: Not tested yet6.0 / 20 pts	Class A: 1/1 deliveredClass B: Not tested yet6.0 / 20 pts	Not tested yet
Task score	54.0 / 100.0Tested Oct 9, 2026	54.0 / 100.0Tested Oct 9, 2026	36.0 / 100.0Lowest: pulls the average downTested Oct 9, 2026

Tested Oct 9, 2026 to Oct 9, 2026

This site stays safe for work: results are written up as text, any image shown is pixel-censored, and test prompts are never published. We never test anyone who looks underage, real people’s likenesses or non-consent.

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How MiniMax H3 X Turbo earns its Spicy Index

Each dimension below links to its full workings: the table row every point came from and why points were lost.

Public leaderboards 45% of quality: Not yet tested
Blind output test 35% of quality: 71.3
Arena quality 20% of quality: Not yet tested
Capability 10.5% weight: 81.5
Freedom Score 30% weight: 48.0

Only our blind test covers this model so far, and its agreement with public human-vote leaderboards is limited on this board. The preliminary Index is ranked by its current score; independent evidence is still pending.

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Capability, item by item

Points from the public scoring table. Upscaled tiers and limits we set ourselves don’t count.

Native max resolution1080p: 25.0 / 25
Longest single clip15 s: 9.0 / 20
Native audioYes: 15.0 / 15
Reference inputs9 reference images · 5 video or audio: 15.0 / 15
Frame controlFirst and last frame: 10.0 / 10
Task coverageImage to video, Reference to video, Text to video: 7.5 / 10
Customization (LoRA)No LoRA support: 0.0 / 5

What MiniMax H3 X Turbo can do on SpicyAPI

Straight from the live model specification on SpicyAPI. Some creators offer more in their own apps; this is what you can call through our API today.

Capabilities by endpoint
Feature	Image to video	Reference to video	Text to video
Resolutions	480p · 720p · 1080p	480p · 720p · 1080p	480p · 720p · 1080p
Clip length	2–15 s	2–15 s	2–15 s
Aspect ratios	—	16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:3 · 3:4 · 21:9	16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:3 · 3:4 · 21:9
Native audio	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reference inputs	—	14	—
Seed control	No	No	No
Negative prompt	No	No	No

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How long it really takes

Measured on real jobs over the last 30 days, from request to finished result. Times include our own test runs.

Median time: 63 s
90th percentile: 1.8 min
Wait per second of video: 12.3 s per output second
Success rate: Collecting data

A time appears once at least 10 completed jobs are in. Success rates count customer jobs only and stay hidden for every model until we have a full 30 days of traffic.

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What MiniMax H3 X Turbo made in our tests

The verdict

Key facts

What we liked and what held it back

What we liked

What held it back

What the clips look like

Prompts that worked

How far it goes

Alternatives

How far MiniMax H3 X Turbo goes

How MiniMax H3 X Turbo earns its Spicy Index

What MiniMax H3 X Turbo can do on SpicyAPI

How long it really takes

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