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MiniMax H3-Image

MiniMax·

ImageimagelocalEdge / Consumer

Overview

Open-weight image model from MiniMax: a dense 33.1B single-stream diffusion transformer (50 layers) built on the H3 design with the audio branch removed, distilled to 6 sampling steps without CFG. Text-to-image and editing with up to 16 reference images, up to about 16 MP (4096x4096 at 1:1). It uses the unchanged MiniMax-H3 text encoder, which carries the full pretrained weights of Qwen3-VL-32B; the repository totals about 204 GB. MiniMax states no VRAM requirement. MiniMax-H3-Image Community License: it does not apply in the European Union, the United Kingdom, South Korea or the United States, including use of outputs there, and licensees above US$1M annualized revenue or offering hosted services need separate written authorization. MiniMax publishes no benchmark figures.

Capabilities and innovations

33.1B dense diffusion transformerText-to-image up to ~16 MP (4K)Image editing with up to 16 reference images6-step distilled samplingOpen weights (MiniMax-H3-Image Community License, excludes EU/UK/South Korea/US)First open-weight image model from MiniMaxNative 4K generation in 6 steps

Benchmarks

No benchmark values are recorded for this model.

  • GPQA Diamond: not reported by the vendor
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Verified: not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU-Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: not reported by the vendor
  • MMMU-Pro: not reported by the vendor

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
33.1B total (Dense)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~20 GB, Edge / Consumer class

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