Using MiniMax H3 on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · MiniMax H3 · MiniMax

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes MiniMax H3 through model ID minimax/minimax-h3. Use the setup steps, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call minimax/minimax-h3 — see the documentation for request format.
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Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
minimax/minimax-h3

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/minimax-h3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalAudio

About MiniMax H3

MiniMax H3 (API MiniMax-H3) is an open multimodal video model (text/image/video/audio refs → 4–15s video with audio at 768p/2K). Open-sourced 2026-08-03; API on platform.minimax.io. $0.08/s 768P, $0.13/s 2K.

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Model Specs

Released2026-08-03

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Provider

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