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This regional carve-out stems from our ongoing generative video copyright litigation with major Hollywood studios.
We aim to deliver our AI tools globally to all users responsibly. US-based persons looking to deploy MiniMax-H3 may submit formal licensing requests. Licenses will be issued to applicants who commit to implementing robust compliance controls and guardrails fully aligned with US legal, compliance and regulatory requirements.

for the EU, UK, and South Korea. This regional carve-out is driven by ongoing regulatory evolution surrounding AI-generated video content across these regions. Unlike hosted services, open-weight model releases allow developers to independently deploy and modify model weights, introducing unique compliance challenges amid the current regulatory uncertainties in these regions. We will continuously monitor and assess evolving local regulations to adjust our access policies. In the meantime, persons based in these regions seeking to deploy MiniMax-H3 may submit formal licensing requests. Licenses will be granted to applicants that commit to implementing robust compliance controls and guardrails fully aligned with local legal and regulatory standards.

Incredible work. Am I reading this right that users in excluded territories need a formal license just to post research outputs? Also why is the application hosted on a thrid-party Feishu link instead of Hugging Face or a MiniMax domain?

Hello. I am the creator of Sulpur 2, an uncensored finetune of LTX 2.3. I'm wondering if it would be within regulation to finetune h3 with the same manner of content, and then take a step further and host it on a website. There would of course be filters for legality.

Incredible work. Am I reading this right that users in excluded territories need a formal license just to post research outputs? Also why is the application hosted on a thrid-party Feishu link instead of Hugging Face or a MiniMax domain?

will use MiniMax domain very soon

Too bad I can't read

Licenses will be granted to applicants that commit to implementing robust compliance controls and guardrails fully aligned with local legal and regulatory standards.

how would they verify they wouldn't "misuse" it? nothing actually stops users in the sanctioned countries from downloading it, only companies will comply not to risk it

I appreciate the transparency, but this makes the entire launch strategy difficult to understand.

MiniMax H3 was heavily promoted as an open-weight release and celebrated as a major step for the open model community. Yet at launch, developers in the EU, US, UK, and South Korea a substantial part of that very community, are legally excluded from downloading, running, modifying, and even using the outputs without a separate license.

Why build so much hype around “open weights” without clearly communicating these restrictions before release? Publicly accessible weights are not meaningfully open if many of the developers they were advertised to cannot legally use them.

Are there concrete plans or a realistic timeline for removing these restrictions? And what exactly would an individual hobbyist or independent developer need to demonstrate to receive a license?

@Slyrox apply will auto get access: Application form >> https://platform.minimax.io/h3-license

@ryanlee-dev Thanks, Ryan. One issue remains: the application form requires a “Company Name” and specifically asks for the full legal name of the applicant’s company.

What should an individual hobbyist or independent developer who does not have a company enter in this mandatory field, so that the authorization is correctly issued to the individual as a natural person?

@ryanlee-dev if you need help with anything, lmk. There's probably a lot to do so I'm just throwing it out there. I can help with anything from low-level Diffusers and Transformers, to custom PyTorch inference code, data collection, pre-/post-processing, and managing my own custom training pipelines.

@ryanlee-dev Thanks, Ryan. One issue remains: the application form requires a “Company Name” and specifically asks for the full legal name of the applicant’s company.

What should an individual hobbyist or independent developer who does not have a company enter in this mandatory field, so that the authorization is correctly issued to the individual as a natural person?

just Personal/None is ok

The Community License explicitly designates certain territories as excluded, while separately stating that users in those territories may apply for authorization to use the model. In that case, I am curious what practical legal or operational purpose the excluded-territories clause is intended to serve. Based on the current documentation alone, the licensing structure appears likely to cause confusion.

@ryanlee-dev Thanks, Ryan. One issue remains: the application form requires a “Company Name” and specifically asks for the full legal name of the applicant’s company.

What should an individual hobbyist or independent developer who does not have a company enter in this mandatory field, so that the authorization is correctly issued to the individual as a natural person?

just Personal/None is ok

Not really a question about the license, but was Minimax H3 trained without CFG from the start or was it CFG distilled after it was trained? And if it's distilled, can we please get the full undistilled weights as well?

Hi @ryanlee-dev , quick question! I'm based in Australia (not an excluded territory), so I can use the weights fine. But I make videos for YouTube with a global audience — so people in the US/EU/UK/Korea will watch them.

Does the license let me distribute my H3 outputs into those regions, or do I still need to apply for that? And if I do — is the form the right way, selecting "other" as my country?

Thanks!

Hello. I am the creator of Sulpur 2, an uncensored finetune of LTX 2.3. I'm wondering if it would be within regulation to finetune h3 with the same manner of content, and then take a step further and host it on a website. There would of course be filters for legality.

Seems like you are not allowed to make NSFW fine tunes.

Uncensored text encoder meme model, ignore them. Uncensoring the text encoder doesn't even do anything, except for make the model worse at following prompts because it can't refuse as a encoder anyway that's elsewhere if it even exists

Hi @ryanlee-dev , quick question! I'm based in Australia (not an excluded territory), so I can use the weights fine. But I make videos for YouTube with a global audience — so people in the US/EU/UK/Korea will watch them.

Does the license let me distribute my H3 outputs into those regions, or do I still need to apply for that? And if I do — is the form the right way, selecting "other" as my country?

Thanks!

Yep, you don't need apply.

Hello. I am the creator of Sulpur 2, an uncensored finetune of LTX 2.3. I'm wondering if it would be within regulation to finetune h3 with the same manner of content, and then take a step further and host it on a website. There would of course be filters for legality.

you can do it, i read the license and it doesnt specify that you cant do NSFW stuff with it it says illegal content in which in 90% of the world porn and nsfw content is legal, only child pornography is illegal, so you can do it no problem, since i already can do nsfw erotica even with the base model unmodified, if you can finetune it into a brand new sulphur 3 for example that would be great for the community

Hello. I am the creator of Sulpur 2, an uncensored finetune of LTX 2.3. I'm wondering if it would be within regulation to finetune h3 with the same manner of content, and then take a step further and host it on a website. There would of course be filters for legality.

Seems like you are not allowed to make NSFW fine tunes.

not true at all you can do it, not in china but the license doesnt speicfify that you cant generate nsfw material with it, only illegal content and china is not the world , nsfw and porn is legal in 90% of the world

I'm active

I use MiniMax H3 outputs as intermediate production material rather than publishing the raw outputs directly.

My workflow may include image-to-image processing with another model, AI upscaling, frame reduction, color quantization, manual masking and cleanup, and compositing onto separately created backgrounds.

In this case:

1. Is the final edited and composited animation still considered “machine-generated” under Item 12 of the Acceptable Use Policy?
2. Is a disclosure such as “This work includes visual material created using generative AI” sufficient?
3. Must the disclosure specifically name “MiniMax H3”?
4. Is an end-credit disclosure sufficient, or must it also appear in the upload description or product page?
5. At what point, if any, does a heavily edited, manually retouched, or manually traced output cease to require disclosure?

I would appreciate an official clarification for animation and film production workflows.

I use MiniMax H3 outputs as intermediate production material rather than publishing the raw outputs directly.

My workflow may include image-to-image processing with another model, AI upscaling, frame reduction, color quantization, manual masking and cleanup, and compositing onto separately created backgrounds.

In this case:

1. Is the final edited and composited animation still considered “machine-generated” under Item 12 of the Acceptable Use Policy?
2. Is a disclosure such as “This work includes visual material created using generative AI” sufficient?
3. Must the disclosure specifically name “MiniMax H3”?
4. Is an end-credit disclosure sufficient, or must it also appear in the upload description or product page?
5. At what point, if any, does a heavily edited, manually retouched, or manually traced output cease to require disclosure?

I would appreciate an official clarification for animation and film production workflows.

Thanks for your question.

1. yes, it's “machine-generated”
2. sufficient
3. Must disclosure
4. An end-credit disclosure is sufficient
5. If any H3 generated used in final output, it needed

Hello @ryanlee-dev , congrats on release this week. Really exciting. I was wondering if you could answer the following to help me better navigate the license: Can you confirm that an approved MiniMax H3 license authorizes agencies and production companies to create commercial client work for advertising, social media, broadcast, streaming, websites, and DOOH, using MiniMax H3 as one component within a larger post-production pipeline, with the ability to deliver the finished assets to clients? Thank you.

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Hello MiniMax Team,

I have one additional question regarding commercial use.

I am an individual creator based in Japan and plan to run MiniMax H3 locally on my own PC using ComfyUI, without using the MiniMax API.

Can I use videos generated locally with MiniMax H3 in monetized YouTube videos (including advertising revenue) without paying any additional commercial licensing fees or obtaining a separate commercial license from MiniMax?

My annual revenue is far below USD 20 million.

Also, is crediting MiniMax H3 in the video credits or YouTube description sufficient for the required disclosure?

Thank you!

Hi @ryanlee-dev , thanks for the clear Q&A here.

I'm an individual creator based in Germany (an excluded territory), so unlike the Australian question above, I need the license first. I plan to run H3 locally, not via the API, and publish the results on YouTube for a global audience, so viewers in the US/EU/UK/Korea.

Is submitting the form at platform.minimax.io/h3-license sufficient on its own for someone in an excluded territory to both run the weights locally and publish the outputs worldwide, or does the global distribution need separate approval? You told the Australian creator "you don't need apply" for worldwide distribution — I'd like to confirm that also applies once an excluded-territory applicant is approved.

Thanks!

Thank you for this Q&A @ryanlee-dev !

Question:

For any hobbyist without company and a non public personal name (artist name only) from an excluded territory a fine-tune and publishing on HF or other AI community platforms are not possible?

Hello @ryanlee-dev , congrats on release this week. Really exciting. I was wondering if you could answer the following to help me better navigate the license: Can you confirm that an approved MiniMax H3 license authorizes agencies and production companies to create commercial client work for advertising, social media, broadcast, streaming, websites, and DOOH, using MiniMax H3 as one component within a larger post-production pipeline, with the ability to deliver the finished assets to clients? Thank you.

Yes, You can

Hello MiniMax Team,

I have one additional question regarding commercial use.

I am an individual creator based in Japan and plan to run MiniMax H3 locally on my own PC using ComfyUI, without using the MiniMax API.

Can I use videos generated locally with MiniMax H3 in monetized YouTube videos (including advertising revenue) without paying any additional commercial licensing fees or obtaining a separate commercial license from MiniMax?

My annual revenue is far below USD 20 million.

Also, is crediting MiniMax H3 in the video credits or YouTube description sufficient for the required disclosure?

Thank you!

Yes, You don't need license.
It is required to mention MiniMax‑H3 either at the beginning or the end.

Hi @ryanlee-dev , thanks for the clear Q&A here.

I'm an individual creator based in Germany (an excluded territory), so unlike the Australian question above, I need the license first. I plan to run H3 locally, not via the API, and publish the results on YouTube for a global audience, so viewers in the US/EU/UK/Korea.

Is submitting the form at platform.minimax.io/h3-license sufficient on its own for someone in an excluded territory to both run the weights locally and publish the outputs worldwide, or does the global distribution need separate approval? You told the Australian creator "you don't need apply" for worldwide distribution — I'd like to confirm that also applies once an excluded-territory applicant is approved.

Thanks!

You are allowed for global distribution with attribution only.

Thank you very much for your clear answer, Ryan Lee!

This really helps me feel confident about using MiniMax-H3 for my YouTube video production. I’ll make sure to credit MiniMax-H3 at the end of my videos.

I really appreciate your help and quick response. Thank you!

Hi MiniMax team,

My name is Pedro, I write for Curious Refuge and we're covering the MiniMax-H3 open weight license announcement.

A couple of things we'd love to clarify for our readers:

• Does the current US license cover individual creators and freelancers, or is it limited to production companies and studios?
• For organizations applying for a license in restricted regions, what specific compliance requirements are you looking for in that review?

Any clarity here would really help us report this accurately.

Thanks so much,
Pedro

Hello @ryanlee-dev , congrats on release this week. Really exciting. I was wondering if you could answer the following to help me better navigate the license: Can you confirm that an approved MiniMax H3 license authorizes agencies and production companies to create commercial client work for advertising, social media, broadcast, streaming, websites, and DOOH, using MiniMax H3 as one component within a larger post-production pipeline, with the ability to deliver the finished assets to clients? Thank you.

Yes, You can

@ryanlee-dev I appreciate you responding. Once last clarification if you wouldn't mind. For placements where on-screen disclosure is impractical, would attribution such as “Includes content generated with MiniMax-H3” in the social caption, video description, campaign metadata, or DOOH trafficking documentation be sufficient?

A Swiss company operates MiniMax H3 open weights exclusively on infrastructure and by personnel physically located in Switzerland. International customers submit creative briefs through our website. Our Swiss personnel review those briefs, prepare and submit the actual prompts to H3, review the generated material, perform post-production, and provide customers only with finished video files. Customers never access the H3 model, inference endpoint or weights. May we provide this production service to customers located in the EU, UK, US and South Korea under the Community License?

Does the confidentiality undertaking in my H3 license request prevent me from sharing the request, authorization email, and related licensing terms with my attorney or other professional legal adviser for the purpose of obtaining legal advice?

If not, could you please confirm that disclosure to legal counsel or professional advisers subject to confidentiality obligations is permitted?

For an individual applicant who entered “Personal/None” in the mandatory Company Name field, the authorization email says that MiniMax “authorizes Personal/None to use MiniMax H3.”

Can you confirm that this means the authorization is issued to the individual applicant in their personal capacity as a natural person, rather than to an entity called “Personal/None”?

Subject: Licensing, Pseudonym Creator Terms & Regional Compliance: Fine-Tuning MiniMax H3

Hi MiniMax Team,

Following up on my previous comment regarding model fine-tuning and weight distribution. As an established creator with strong community reach and creator of advanced checkpoints (WAN22, LTX, various T2I), comfy nodes, software and the MMH3 director, I want to clarify how my planned workflow aligns with the MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement, particularly regarding creator identity and distribution mechanics.

1. Artist Identity vs. Corporate Verification (Section V.4 & Registration)
   I operate as an independent creator under an artist pseudonym, not as a registered corporate entity. For privacy and standard community practice, providing a formal company name or legal identity for public model publishing is not applicable. My releases operate in full compliance with local laws (including EU AI frameworks), where end-user responsibility for generated content is established. I would like to clarify how independent pseudonymous artists can receive authorization under your Excluded Territory framework without corporate entity requirements.

2. Inapplicability of Filtering on Open Weights. However, when releasing fine-tuned weights or LoRAs (.safetensors/gguf) for local/decentralized execution (e.g., ComfyUI), implementation of an active safety filter is technically impossible.

To fulfill Section V.2 (downstream binding), my download pages on platforms like Civitai and Hugging Face will mandate an explicitly binding downstream users to the MiniMax H3 Acceptable Use Policy (Exhibit A), placing legal content responsibility on the end user.

3. Content Attribution vs. Platform Attribution (Section IV.2 & III.3)
   Mandating "MiniMax" logos, watermarks, or mentions directly inside every generated output image/video file is unviable for creators and ruins media content utility. Instead, I will maintain standard open-weights attribution on hosting platforms: clear credit to MiniMax H3 as the base model, direct links to your original repository, License, and ToS, while distributing the fine-tune under my artist name and custom trigger tags.

Please let me know if this framework satisfies your requirements for open-weight distribution by individual creators, and how we can proceed with authorization.

I would love to contribute to the MMH3 ecosystem and promote it, but without consent I possibly have to drop all effort.

I am available to connect here, or through direct message if you like.

Thank you!

Hi MiniMax team,

I would appreciate clarification on the attribution requirements, because recent answers here appear to go beyond the wording of the published MiniMax H3 Community License.

Item 12 of the Acceptable Use Policy requires public content to clearly and prominently disclose that it is machine-generated.

Section III.3 says creators are encouraged to display “Powered by MiniMax H3” and to add an AI-generation identifier.

Section IV.2 separately states that a commercial product or service using MiniMax H3 must prominently display “MiniMax H3” on its user interface.

You recently told a creator based in Japan, who does not require an Excluded Territory authorization and who specifically asked about monetized YouTube videos, that MiniMax-H3 must be mentioned at the beginning or end of the video.

Could you please clarify how these provisions apply to creator-produced video content?

Specifically:

1. For public creator content, including monetized YouTube or Instagram videos, is naming MiniMax-H3 itself mandatory, or is clear disclosure that the content is AI/machine-generated sufficient?

2. If naming MiniMax-H3 is mandatory, which provision of the Community License establishes this requirement for the video itself?

3. Does MiniMax consider a monetized YouTube or Instagram video to be a “commercial product or service” under Section IV.2? If so, what constitutes the “user interface” in the case of a published video, and how does the requirement to display MiniMax H3 on a user interface translate into placing the MiniMax-H3 name at the beginning or end of the video?

4. Can a platform-native AI disclosure together with MiniMax-H3 attribution in the caption or description satisfy the requirement, or must MiniMax-H3 attribution be embedded inside the video itself?

5. If in-video attribution is mandatory, how should this apply to short-form commercial advertising? For example, if a 10-second pizza advertisement uses MiniMax H3 as one component of a larger production pipeline, must the MiniMax-H3 name be displayed inside the advertisement itself?

I am asking specifically about the actual license requirements creators are expected to comply with, rather than recommended or preferred attribution practices.

Thank you.

Hi @ryanlee-dev and Minimax team, thank you again for taking the time to answer so many questions in this thread — it's genuinely appreciated by the community.

I'm Kakak, a beginner and solo YouTuber from South East Asia.

I'd like to respectfully flag two points where the answers given here seem to differ slightly from the wording of the published LICENSE, in case a short written clarification would help everyone relying on this thread for guidance.

1. Global distribution to Excluded Territories (re: your replies to @ziggy84 and @fairai )

You told @ziggy84 that no application is needed for global distribution, and told @fairai that global distribution is allowed with attribution only. However, Section V.4 of the License states that Licensees may not use, reproduce, modify, distribute, or display the MiniMax H3 Works or their Outputs outside the Applicable Territory, and that such use is not authorized under the Agreement.

Since a public YouTube upload is viewable by audiences in the Excluded Territories (EU, UK, South Korea, US), could you clarify whether Section V.4 is intended to apply only to distributing the Works/weights themselves, rather than to viewers watching Outputs online? A short clarification would really help creators avoid unintentionally relying on guidance that conflicts with the written terms.

2. Attribution requirement for creator video content (re: your reply to @szn300 )

You told @szn300 that mentioning "MiniMax H3" at the beginning or end of the video is required. Looking at the License text, though, Acceptable Use Policy Item 12 only requires that public content be clearly and prominently disclosed as machine-generated — it doesn't specify that the model name itself must be stated. Section III.3, which does mention displaying "Powered by MiniMax H3," frames this as something creators are encouraged to do rather than a mandatory condition.

Could you help clarify which provision makes naming "MiniMax H3" specifically (rather than a generic AI-disclosure) a mandatory requirement for creator-published video content? This would also help answer @Zula66 's related question above, which seems to be asking the same thing.

Thanks in advance for looking into this — a written answer here would remove a lot of ambiguity for smaller creators trying to comply correctly.

Clarification on MiniMax H3 attribution and open-source community logic

Hey MiniMax Devs, I have a few quick, direct questions regarding your attribution policy for MiniMax H3.

In my daily workflow, I extensively test various ComfyUI pipelines and models. I regularly publish these benchmark results and workflows on YouTube, X, Hugging Face, and other platforms. Please clarify your exact legal and practical requirements on the following points:

1. Attribution Placement: Do you strictly demand an in-video watermark/credit, or is a clear mention in the video title and description sufficient?

2. Non-Commercial Nature: My content is strictly educational and entirely non-commercial. For context, my YouTube channel is completely unmonetized.

3. No Free Advertising: If you legally require forced in-video branding (e.g., "This video was created using MiniMax H3"), do you provide financial compensation for this marketing space? If not, enforcing mandatory product placement makes utilizing your model completely unviable for independent creators. Frankly, expecting creators to provide free advertising for your brand without any compensation makes zero sense. Can you logically explain how you envision this model being adopted by the open-source developer community? Expecting developers to invest their time and expertise for free while simultaneously forcing them to run forced ads for your product is highly counterintuitive.

I look forward to your prompt response. Sooner rather than later.

Cheers!

Hi MiniMax team,

My name is Pedro, I write for Curious Refuge and we're covering the MiniMax-H3 open weight license announcement.

A couple of things we'd love to clarify for our readers:

• Does the current US license cover individual creators and freelancers, or is it limited to production companies and studios?
• For organizations applying for a license in restricted regions, what specific compliance requirements are you looking for in that review?

Any clarity here would really help us report this accurately.

Thanks so much,
Pedro

1 both for individual and freelancers
2 you can find here: https://platform.minimax.io/h3-license

Hello @ryanlee-dev , congrats on release this week. Really exciting. I was wondering if you could answer the following to help me better navigate the license: Can you confirm that an approved MiniMax H3 license authorizes agencies and production companies to create commercial client work for advertising, social media, broadcast, streaming, websites, and DOOH, using MiniMax H3 as one component within a larger post-production pipeline, with the ability to deliver the finished assets to clients? Thank you.

Yes, You can

@ryanlee-dev I appreciate you responding. Once last clarification if you wouldn't mind. For placements where on-screen disclosure is impractical, would attribution such as “Includes content generated with MiniMax-H3” in the social caption, video description, campaign metadata, or DOOH trafficking documentation be sufficient?

Its works

A Swiss company operates MiniMax H3 open weights exclusively on infrastructure and by personnel physically located in Switzerland. International customers submit creative briefs through our website. Our Swiss personnel review those briefs, prepare and submit the actual prompts to H3, review the generated material, perform post-production, and provide customers only with finished video files. Customers never access the H3 model, inference endpoint or weights. May we provide this production service to customers located in the EU, UK, US and South Korea under the Community License?

If you sign https://platform.minimax.io/h3-license, it's ok for you to provider globally

Does the confidentiality undertaking in my H3 license request prevent me from sharing the request, authorization email, and related licensing terms with my attorney or other professional legal adviser for the purpose of obtaining legal advice?

If not, could you please confirm that disclosure to legal counsel or professional advisers subject to confidentiality obligations is permitted?

It's ok for you to share with legal counsel or professional advisers

For an individual applicant who entered “Personal/None” in the mandatory Company Name field, the authorization email says that MiniMax “authorizes Personal/None to use MiniMax H3.”

Can you confirm that this means the authorization is issued to the individual applicant in their personal capacity as a natural person, rather than to an entity called “Personal/None”?

It's ok for Personal to apply

Subject: Licensing, Pseudonym Creator Terms & Regional Compliance: Fine-Tuning MiniMax H3

Hi MiniMax Team,

Following up on my previous comment regarding model fine-tuning and weight distribution. As an established creator with strong community reach and creator of advanced checkpoints (WAN22, LTX, various T2I), comfy nodes, software and the MMH3 director, I want to clarify how my planned workflow aligns with the MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement, particularly regarding creator identity and distribution mechanics.

1. Artist Identity vs. Corporate Verification (Section V.4 & Registration)
   I operate as an independent creator under an artist pseudonym, not as a registered corporate entity. For privacy and standard community practice, providing a formal company name or legal identity for public model publishing is not applicable. My releases operate in full compliance with local laws (including EU AI frameworks), where end-user responsibility for generated content is established. I would like to clarify how independent pseudonymous artists can receive authorization under your Excluded Territory framework without corporate entity requirements.

2. Inapplicability of Filtering on Open Weights. However, when releasing fine-tuned weights or LoRAs (.safetensors/gguf) for local/decentralized execution (e.g., ComfyUI), implementation of an active safety filter is technically impossible.

To fulfill Section V.2 (downstream binding), my download pages on platforms like Civitai and Hugging Face will mandate an explicitly binding downstream users to the MiniMax H3 Acceptable Use Policy (Exhibit A), placing legal content responsibility on the end user.

3. Content Attribution vs. Platform Attribution (Section IV.2 & III.3)
   Mandating "MiniMax" logos, watermarks, or mentions directly inside every generated output image/video file is unviable for creators and ruins media content utility. Instead, I will maintain standard open-weights attribution on hosting platforms: clear credit to MiniMax H3 as the base model, direct links to your original repository, License, and ToS, while distributing the fine-tune under my artist name and custom trigger tags.

Please let me know if this framework satisfies your requirements for open-weight distribution by individual creators, and how we can proceed with authorization.

I would love to contribute to the MMH3 ecosystem and promote it, but without consent I possibly have to drop all effort.

I am available to connect here, or through direct message if you like.

Thank you!

Thanks for reaching out!
All the arrangements you mentioned are allowed after you sign the license:
https://platform.minimax.io/h3-license
Once you complete the licensing process, you can proceed with your fine‑tune distribution workflow.

Hi MiniMax team,

I would appreciate clarification on the attribution requirements, because recent answers here appear to go beyond the wording of the published MiniMax H3 Community License.

Item 12 of the Acceptable Use Policy requires public content to clearly and prominently disclose that it is machine-generated.

Section III.3 says creators are encouraged to display “Powered by MiniMax H3” and to add an AI-generation identifier.

Section IV.2 separately states that a commercial product or service using MiniMax H3 must prominently display “MiniMax H3” on its user interface.

You recently told a creator based in Japan, who does not require an Excluded Territory authorization and who specifically asked about monetized YouTube videos, that MiniMax-H3 must be mentioned at the beginning or end of the video.

Could you please clarify how these provisions apply to creator-produced video content?

Specifically:

1. For public creator content, including monetized YouTube or Instagram videos, is naming MiniMax-H3 itself mandatory, or is clear disclosure that the content is AI/machine-generated sufficient?

2. If naming MiniMax-H3 is mandatory, which provision of the Community License establishes this requirement for the video itself?

3. Does MiniMax consider a monetized YouTube or Instagram video to be a “commercial product or service” under Section IV.2? If so, what constitutes the “user interface” in the case of a published video, and how does the requirement to display MiniMax H3 on a user interface translate into placing the MiniMax-H3 name at the beginning or end of the video?

4. Can a platform-native AI disclosure together with MiniMax-H3 attribution in the caption or description satisfy the requirement, or must MiniMax-H3 attribution be embedded inside the video itself?

5. If in-video attribution is mandatory, how should this apply to short-form commercial advertising? For example, if a 10-second pizza advertisement uses MiniMax H3 as one component of a larger production pipeline, must the MiniMax-H3 name be displayed inside the advertisement itself?

I am asking specifically about the actual license requirements creators are expected to comply with, rather than recommended or preferred attribution practices.

Thank you.

Hi,
Thank you for your thorough questions. Let’s clarify mandatory license requirements vs recommended practices:
Only AUP Item 12 is mandatory for your YouTube / Instagram videos: you need to clearly disclose that content is AI‑generated.
Section III.3 is encouraged attribution, not a hard requirement to embed MiniMax‑H3 name inside the video itself. Our earlier reply to the Japanese creator was community guidance, not binding license rule, sorry for the confusion.
Section IV.2 (UI branding) applies only to self‑built software / web services, it does not cover finished videos you publish on third‑party platforms, even if the videos are monetized.
Platform AI disclosure + MiniMax‑H3 credit in caption/description is compliant; in‑video burned‑in text is not required.
For client‑delivered short ads: you still need AI generation disclosure, but you don’t have to print MiniMax‑H3 inside the ad footage, unless you operate your own ad‑generation tool.
Hope this answers all your points, reach out if anything remains unclear.

Clarification on MiniMax H3 attribution and open-source community logic

Hey MiniMax Devs, I have a few quick, direct questions regarding your attribution policy for MiniMax H3.

In my daily workflow, I extensively test various ComfyUI pipelines and models. I regularly publish these benchmark results and workflows on YouTube, X, Hugging Face, and other platforms. Please clarify your exact legal and practical requirements on the following points:

1. Attribution Placement: Do you strictly demand an in-video watermark/credit, or is a clear mention in the video title and description sufficient?

2. Non-Commercial Nature: My content is strictly educational and entirely non-commercial. For context, my YouTube channel is completely unmonetized.

3. No Free Advertising: If you legally require forced in-video branding (e.g., "This video was created using MiniMax H3"), do you provide financial compensation for this marketing space? If not, enforcing mandatory product placement makes utilizing your model completely unviable for independent creators. Frankly, expecting creators to provide free advertising for your brand without any compensation makes zero sense. Can you logically explain how you envision this model being adopted by the open-source developer community? Expecting developers to invest their time and expertise for free while simultaneously forcing them to run forced ads for your product is highly counterintuitive.

I look forward to your prompt response. Sooner rather than later.

Cheers!

Hi,
Thanks for your feedback and thoughtful questions.
To clarify our official policy:
The only mandatory rule is AUP Item 12: clearly disclose that your content is AI‑generated.
You are not required to add embedded MiniMax‑H3 branding, watermarks or on‑screen credits inside your video. Attribution in the title or description is sufficient.
Section III.3 is encouraged best practice, not a legal obligation.
Our previous informal comments suggesting in‑video credits were non‑binding guidance, sorry for the confusion.
We do not ask independent creators to run free in‑video advertisements for MiniMax. We want to keep the barrier low for people publishing ComfyUI workflows, benchmarks and educational content, whether commercial or non‑commercial.
For your non‑commercial benchmark videos, AI‑disclosure plus mentioning MiniMax H3 in the description will satisfy license requirements. Feel free to reach out with further questions.

question: territorial compliance for inference performed partly in orbit??

I am seeking guidance given the geo-nature of this license. Let's say.. the H3 weights are stored in Singapore, but inference (in todays diverse setups) is distributed across:

1. GPUs in Japan and Brazil;
2. a low-Earth-orbit satellite whose ground track periodically passes over the United States, EU, UK, and South Korea;
3. a Canadian CDN that routes packets through US infrastructure; and
4. a Panamanian-flagged ship in international waters displaying the resulting video, while the user who submitted the prompt flies from Mexico into US airspace before generation completes.

Struggling to resolve how this works out under some things set forth in this License. Under Sections II and V.4, which prohibit using, running, reproducing, or displaying the Works or Outputs outside the Applicable Territory, I have the following questions:

• Is territorial location determined by the physical location of each GPU, the user, the legal entity controlling the system, the packet route, the display, or the photons emitted by the display?
• Does the satellite enter an Excluded Territory when it passes above one, and if so, at what altitude does that begin?
• Does transient routing, buffering, or caching through a US server constitute unauthorized reproduction or display of an Output?
• If generation begins while the user is in Mexico but finishes after the aircraft enters US airspace, must the inference be aborted precisely at the border?
• If a person in California observes the ship's display through a sufficiently powerful telescope, has the Output been "displayed" in the United States?
• Does the answer change if the video is encrypted while crossing an Excluded Territory and is therefore not human-perceptible there?

Could MiniMax provide a deterministic territorial-compliance rule for this scenario, ideally including what seems like to me crucial details (ie relevant coordinate reference system, altitude boundary, what the acceptable clock synchronization tolerance is, etc)?

Also, the pinned Q&A appears to say the license is "limited to the EU, UK, South Korea, and US," while the Agreement defines those jurisdictions as Excluded Territories.. Could you confirm which formulation is intended??

Hi MiniMax Team,
I'm based in the UAE (not an excluded territory) and will run MiniMax H3 locally on my own PC using ComfyUI, without using the MiniMax API. Two of my use cases involve content that becomes publicly viewable or reaches customers elsewhere:
(1) posting finished videos to a public YouTube channel, and
(2) producing training videos (using AI) for a Canada-headquartered SaaS company (with annual revenue below USD 20 million) whose customers may include users in the US.

Does Section V.4's territorial restriction on 'outputs' apply based on where the output is generated, or does it also restrict where the finished content is later viewed or distributed?
Also, is crediting MiniMax H3 in YouTube description sufficient for the required disclosure? For training videos also will credits in the description or read me section suffice or simply mentioning AI generated content is enough.
Looking forward to your prompt response.
Thank You

Hi MiniMax team,

I am based in the USA and am ready to request your license for excluded territories. I am an independent artist / novelist and will promote my book via a trailer on YouTube. The trailer will use various video clips generated with MiniMax H3. I can attribute those clips with "Powered by Minimax H3" or equivalent with no issues.

My issue is with the indemnity clause on your request form. If I produce output that can be legally sued (unlikely because of YouTube's own policies), does that clause protect you from ME suing you, or anyone suing you due to the way I used your output in my videos? Be specific, please.

I will clarify this with a direct question:

If I use H3 privately and locally to create an original video and subsequently publish that finished video commercially on YouTube or Facebook, does Section VI.3 require me personally to defend or indemnify MiniMax against third-party copyright, trademark, publicity-right, or other claims relating to that output, even where I have not breached the license or Acceptable Use Policy?

Hello MiniMax Team,

I have one additional question regarding commercial use.

I am an individual creator based in Japan and plan to run MiniMax H3 locally on my own PC using ComfyUI, without using the MiniMax API.

Can I use videos generated locally with MiniMax H3 in monetized YouTube videos (including advertising revenue) without paying any additional commercial licensing fees or obtaining a separate commercial license from MiniMax?

My annual revenue is far below USD 20 million.

Also, is crediting MiniMax H3 in the video credits or YouTube description sufficient for the required disclosure?

Thank you!

Yes, You don't need license.
It is required to mention MiniMax‑H3 either at the beginning or the end.

@ryanlee-dev
Hi, according to your reply, in this scene we don't need the license, but I saw such description in the comfyui license page of H3, I'm quite confusing about that. Could you give us some futher explanation about that? Thank you very much.

Who needs a MiniMax H3 commercial license?
Anyone running MiniMax models locally for commercial work: business use, client work, or products you ship. Open weights let anyone download the models and start creating; the license is what makes commercial use of your local outputs legal.

The link is here: https://comfy.org/minimax/license

Hi MiniMax Team, building on @yaotech 's question above.
I'm building a web app (Frontend + Local ComfyUI backend) offering AI image/video generation to end users — using MiniMax H3, Music 3, and other models/LLMs to generate better quality video from a user's prompt or our templates. We're a new startup, far under $20M/year revenue, outside the excluded territories.

Same like @yaotech I'm a little confused by the Community License vs Comfy's licensing page :

1. Comfy's page says "Anyone running MiniMax models locally for commercial work... needs the license," but your earlier reply and the Hugging Face license terms say under $20M outside excluded territories, no license is needed. Which is correct for a product like mine?
2. Comfy's page also excludes "running a model marketplace, API aggregator, inference-as-a-service, or model-routing platform" from what their license covers. Is that restriction part of the actual MiniMax Community License, or specific to Comfy's resold license? This is confusing because the MiniMax Community License itself defines "Hosted Services" as "hosted services provided via application programming interfaces (APIs), web access, or any other electronic or remote means" — which suggests web-based/API use is contemplated and licensed, not excluded.
3. If so, beyond the Section IV.2 UI-display requirement, what other conditions apply to running H3/Music 3 as part of a hosted commercial web app (vs. publishing finished videos)?

Thanks for the clarity so far in this thread.

Hey, thank you for answering our questions!

If i’m a freelancer from Romania, an EU country, and i have under 20M revenue, i completed the form on the website you posted and received a confirmation on email, am I therefore allowed to:

• Post social content on my pages with myself and my image only (think ugc or talking heads) for european audiences?

I will tag each video as ‘AI-Generated using Minimax H3’ to comply with local laws/EU AI Act.

I just wanted to make sure the email confirmation is enough and that I am allowed to use the model locally/through comfy cloud API for this scope of growing the instagram/youtube/tiktok pages and advertising my freelancing services there using AI content talking-heads, and that the email confirmation grants me access to use the model and the outputs.

I am not ‘selling’ usage or building a platform. I just want to make content for myself with myself. I’m doing video production.

Thank you! You guys are doing great work 🙏🏻

Dear MiniMax Licensing Team,

I am an Australia-based independent creator working on an original movie/web series project (new original IP). I am currently utilizing MiniMax H3 within my local workflow/environment to produce the visual and audio visual content for the pilot demo and very impressed with outcome.

As an independent creator operating with limited initial funding, I am writing to clarify the commercial licensing terms for global distribution, specifically regarding the following points:

Global Distribution Rights (US & Worldwide Markets):
I plan to publish and monetize this original film/web series globally, including distribution across platforms in North America (US), Europe, and other international territories. Under the MiniMax H3 Community License, could you confirm that publishing and monetizing original artistic works created locally in Australia for global distribution is permitted? Is explicit individual authorization is required for local weight deployment tied to US/global commercial reach?

Commercial Threshold & Scale Agreement:
My project is currently operating well under the $20M annual revenue threshold. We intend to give prominent credit ("Powered by MiniMax H3") in the final project credits and marketing materials. Should the project exceed commercial thresholds or achieve significant distribution milestones, I am eager to transition to a formal enterprise agreement.

IP Ownership:
Please confirm that as the creator, I retain full commercial ownership of the original intellectual property (story, characters, and final assembled media) generated through this workflow.

Project Details:

Creator / Entity: Independent Creator

Location: Australia

Project Type: Independent Original Movie / Web Series (New IP)

Primary Deployment: Local environment (MiniMax H3 workflow)

Distribution Targets: Global (Streaming / Digital release including US)

Thank you for providing such powerful technology to independent storytellers. I look forward to your response and guidance on any specific contractual steps needed before initial release.

Which is the better choice between "H3-Regenerate-2K" and "H3-Max" in terms of overall cost-performance for inference?

Hello, MiniMax Licensing Team,

I would like to ask for clarification regarding the interpretation of the following provision in the MiniMax H3 Community License:

“You shall obtain a separate, prior written authorization from MiniMax by contacting api@minimax.io with the subject line ‘MiniMax H3 licensing - authorization request’, if your commercial products and services generate more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in yearly revenue.”

For example, suppose a company already generates more than USD 20 million in annual revenue from commercial products and services that are completely unrelated to MiniMax. If such a company wishes to conduct an internal proof of concept (PoC) using MiniMax H3, without distributing the model or any outputs externally, would the company be required to obtain a separate license or prior written authorization from MiniMax?

In other words, does the USD 20 million annual revenue threshold refer to the company’s overall commercial revenue, or only to revenue generated by commercial products and services that use MiniMax H3?

Thank you for your clarification.

Which is the better choice between "H3-Regenerate-2K" and "H3-Max" in terms of overall cost-performance for inference?

I believe giving back to the community matters, and crediting the creators should always be encouraged as a genuine expression of appreciation.

I have been using other models and avoided MiniMax H3 mainly because the attribution requirements seem unclear. If users are allowed to use the output, publish it on platforms like YouTube, and earn money from their own creativity through scripting, editing, and production, attribution should ideally be an appreciation, not a burden.

There is also a practical concern for small or new YouTube channels. At the beginning, creators are trying to build a clear identity and avoid making their descriptions look like promotional or marketing content. Being required to repeatedly mention a specific AI brand could potentially affect how the content is perceived and undermine the creator's efforts to build their own channel identity.

Could MiniMax please clarify whether attribution for H3 is mandatory, or simply appreciated/recommended?

I would very much like you to clarify the reasons for not releasing it. which is the better choice between "H3-Regenerate-2K" and "H3-Max" in terms of overall cost-performance for inference?

I would very much like you to clarify the reasons for not releasing it. which is the better choice between "H3-Regenerate-2K" and "H3-Max" in terms of overall cost-performance for inference? When release?

Hello MiniMax team,
Thank you for making MiniMax H3 available to the community.
I am an individual learner based in China, exploring how to create 2D game assets. I do not have a company, and I have not earned any revenue from these assets so far.
I use the open-weight MiniMax H3 model locally through ComfyUI to generate short animation clips. I then extract the frames and manually edit, clean up, and arrange them into character sprite sheets, effects, and other finished game assets. I would only be selling these finished assets—not model weights or access to a generation service.
Before offering anything for sale, I would sincerely appreciate your clarification on three questions:

1. May I commercially sell these finished game assets?
   Does the Community License allow an individual in China to sell H3-generated outputs that have been processed into game assets? Would I need any additional paid license or written permission before starting, even though I currently have no revenue?
2. May I sell these assets to customers worldwide, including in the Excluded Territories?
   I understand that Section V.4 refers to Outputs as well as the model, so I do not want to assume that creating the assets in China makes worldwide distribution permissible.
   Could you please clarify whether I may sell the finished assets to buyers in the United States, EU, UK, or South Korea? If separate authorization is required, is there an application route available to an individual creator like me?
3. May buyers use these assets in their own commercial games?
   May I give buyers permission to edit these assets, incorporate them into commercial games, and release those games worldwide? Would the buyers need their own MiniMax authorization, or would any territorial restrictions still apply to their games?
   I am still learning about model licensing and want to understand the requirements before selling anything or promising commercial-use rights to buyers. A written clarification or a link to the relevant official guidance would be very helpful.
   Thank you for your time and patience.

I would very much like you to clarify the reasons for not releasing it. which is the better choice between "H3-Regenerate-2K" and "H3-Max" in terms of overall cost-performance for inference? When release?

I'm a freelance video creator who delivers finished video files to clients; I don't run a hosted app or service. A few things I'd love clarity on:

1. If a client refuses to include any "Powered by MiniMax H3" mention on their published content, is that a compliance issue for me (the person who generated the video), given I'm not the one publishing or operating any product/service?

2. Separately — if I instruct my client to add an AI-generated disclosure per the Acceptable Use Policy, but they don't after I deliver the video, does that responsibility fall on me or on them, since they're not a party to this license?

3. If none of this can be resolved for client-delivery workflows where the client won't agree to any branding or disclosure at all, would you recommend using MiniMax H3 for that kind of work, or switching to a different model?

Would really appreciate clarification for freelance/client-delivery workflows like this. Thanks!

"H3-Regenerate-2K" and "H3-Max" when release?