Kling vs Hailuo: Kling 3.0 and Hailuo 2.3, With Prompts to Test

Each job below gets one model to open on DreamClip and a one-line reason. Price is relative on this page: the two Hailuo cards start lower per second than Kling 3.0, and the model card in the studio prints what each one starts from.

Those are tendencies. Either family can win a specific prompt, which is why the third section is a set of prompts rather than a verdict.

The biggest practical difference is not quality, it is format. Hailuo 2.3 comes in fixed clips: 6 or 10 seconds at 768p on the standard card, and one 6 second clip at 1080p on the Pro card. Kling 3.0 is a dial: any length from 3 to 15 seconds, 720p or 1080p, three shapes. The at-a-glance table, printed from our catalog, shows the six models on this page.

Each card below plays the preview our catalog holds for it and opens the model in the studio. One note: the Hailuo 2.3 Pro card plays the standard card's clip until a 1080p one is cut, so judge the Pro card by your own render, not by its preview.

• KlingKling 3.03 to 15 s · 720p, 1080p
• KlingKling V3 Turbo3 to 15 s · 720p, 1080p
• MiniMaxMinimax Hailuo 2.36 or 10 s · 768p
• MiniMaxMinimax Hailuo 2.3 Pro6 s · 1080p
• MiniMaxMiniMax H35 to 15 s · 768p, 1440p, 4K
• MiniMaxMiniMax H3 Max5 to 15 s · 480p, 768p, 1080p

What the fixed format costs you, and what it gives

A fixed 6 or 10 seconds removes a decision, and for social cuts that is often welcome: 6 seconds is a beat, 10 is a small scene. It also means a 4 second reaction or a 15 second single take is a Kling 3.0 job by definition. No shape picker on the Hailuo cards means the frame is the route's own; when a 9:16 or 1:1 delivery matters, render on Kling 3.0 and skip the crop.

Sound is the other line. Kling 3.0 renders a soundtrack with the picture and has it on by default, with a switch that lowers the cost per second when you turn it off. Hailuo 2.3 and 2.3 Pro render silent clips. For a clip that will be scored or voiced later, silence is not a shortfall; for a clip that has to sound like the thing on screen, it is.

Run each of these six prompts on Kling 3.0 and on Hailuo 2.3 at the same settings and you have twelve clips and a real answer for your kind of work. Use 6 seconds, a length both render and the only one the Pro card takes, 16:9 on Kling 3.0 (the Hailuo cards render their own frame), and sound off on Kling 3.0 so the two are judged on picture alone. Run them in the Video studio rather than Compare, since Compare starts each lane at its own shortest length. Each prompt stresses one thing; the right column says what to watch.

Two of these are real preview prompts. The paper airplanes prompt made the Hailuo 2.3 preview on this page, and the iced coffee prompt made the Kling 3.0 preview. Swap them across, the airplanes on Kling 3.0 and the pour on Hailuo 2.3, and you have two pairs to judge before writing a word.

MiniMax released Hailuo 2.3 on October 28, 2025, and its release note leads with people: more fluid and controlled body movement, more natural live-action facial performance and micro-expression changes, and better stylised output for anime, illustration and game-style looks, in MiniMax's own description. That makes the first job to give it a face doing a small, human thing, held in close-up.

Kling 3.0 is strong on people too, in a different register: whole bodies moving, with weight on a landing and a jacket that swings with the person wearing it. On a close-up of a face doing very little, the two are close, and the chessboard prompt above is the one that separates them for your taste.

What to watch on a face

• The eyes: do they focus on something, or drift.
• Teeth and tongue when the mouth opens: the place most models still slip.
• A turn away and back: is it the same face when it returns.
• Skin under moving light: texture that stays put, not a surface that swims.

For a face that also has to speak, neither family is the first pick. That is a Veo 3.1 job, and Veo 3.1 vs Kling 3.0 covers why. Hailuo 2.3 is silent, and Kling 3.0's sound shines on objects more than on dialogue.

Both families read camera moves written as plain words. Name the move, say where it starts, and give it a speed; a vague instruction is where either model improvises. On both, one move per clip saves more takes than any other habit.

• Slow push in: Kling 3.0 holds the subject sharp as the frame tightens; on a 6 second Hailuo 2.3 clip the move has to be gentle or it ends before it arrives.
• Tracking from the side: both do it well. Watch the background for streaking that stays smooth.
• Orbit: ask for a fraction of a turn, 90 or 180 degrees. A full circle in 6 seconds is too fast on any model.
• Handheld: Hailuo 2.3's candid look suits it; Kling 3.0 reads handheld as a slight, steady sway.
• Slow motion: say it plainly, and say what slows: the action, the camera, or both.
• Static camera: the cheapest test of a model, because every drift is the model's and not the move's.

Speed is where the fixed format bites. A fast action in 6 seconds is a reveal; the same action over 12 seconds on Kling 3.0 is a scene with a beginning and an end. Render the Kling clip at 6 seconds first and go long only when the opening holds, because a longer take gives any model more time to wander.

Every model on this page takes a start frame. Attach a photo, describe what moves rather than what is there, and the clip opens on your image. The links Kling 3.0 with a start frame and Hailuo 2.3 with a start frame open the studio in that mode already.

The two treat a photo differently in one way that matters. Kling 3.0 can carry a photo out to 15 seconds, which is room for a whole action and also room to drift, so draft a portrait short before you render it long. Hailuo 2.3 runs 6 or 10 seconds, and in that window it keeps the candid, natural movement its release note describes. For a product still, Kling 3.0's shape control is the deciding feature: shoot the still at 1:1 or 9:16, render at the same shape, and nothing is cropped.

Neither Kling card nor either Hailuo 2.3 card takes an end frame or reference photos on DreamClip. MiniMax H3 and MiniMax H3 Max take a start and an end frame, and so does Seedance 2.5. When one subject has to come from several photos, use the reference mode on Seedance 2.0 Fast.

• Describe one motion and let the photo be the picture.
• Start from a photo with the subject sharp and well lit; a soft still gets softer once it moves.
• On Hailuo 2.3, remember the clip is silent: the photo and the motion carry everything.
• On Kling 3.0, name the room and one sound if you keep the soundtrack on; the model fills the rest.

The image to video page has the method in full, with examples on several models.

MiniMax makes both the Hailuo 2.3 cards and the H3 cards, and they are different generations, not tiers of one model. The H3 card's own line in the studio calls it Hailuo 03, the newer generation. On DreamClip, H3 and H3 Max have their own settings in the catalog, and the differences from Hailuo 2.3 are large enough to decide a job.

• Length: H3 and H3 Max render any length from 5 to 15 seconds; Hailuo 2.3 renders 6 or 10, the Pro card 6.
• Sound: the H3 cards render a soundtrack that is always on, with no switch; the Hailuo 2.3 cards are silent.
• Shape: the H3 cards take six shapes, 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4 and 9:16; the Hailuo 2.3 cards have no shape picker here.
• Frames: the H3 cards take a start and an end frame; the Hailuo 2.3 cards take a start frame only.
• Size: MiniMax H3 renders 768p, 1440p or 4K; H3 Max renders 480p, 768p or 1080p; Hailuo 2.3 renders 768p and its Pro card 1080p.

When to reach for which: Hailuo 2.3 for a cheap, silent, natural clip of people in a fixed length; MiniMax H3 when the clip needs sound, an end frame, a wide or tall shape, or 4K from the MiniMax side; H3 Max for the same soundtrack and frames at 480p, 768p or 1080p, starting lower than H3 at its smallest size.

Against Kling 3.0, the H3 cards are the closer match on format: a chosen length, sound, shapes. The difference is the switch. Kling 3.0 lets you turn sound off and pay less per second; on the H3 cards the soundtrack comes with every clip. For a clip that will be scored later, Kling 3.0 with sound off or Kling V3 Turbo hands you a clean, silent file, and Hailuo 2.3 does the same from a lower per-second start than either.

Kling 3.0

• Start frame yes; end frame and reference photos no, on DreamClip.
• Dialogue is better left to Veo 3.1, which renders the voice and the lips together.
• 720p or 1080p on the standard card; 4K is a separate Kling 3.0 4K card at a higher rate.
• Kling 4.0 is announced on Kling's own site as of October 2026; the cards here are the 3.0 line and O3 Omni.

Hailuo 2.3 and 2.3 Pro

• Fixed lengths: 6 or 10 seconds on the standard card, 6 on the Pro card. Nothing shorter or longer.
• Silent. No soundtrack on either card.
• No shape picker on DreamClip; a square or vertical delivery means a crop or a different model.
• 768p on the standard card; 1080p only on the Pro card's single 6 second clip.
• A start frame only here, like Kling 3.0.
• It is the older MiniMax generation on DreamClip; the H3 cards are the newer one.

Most of these decide the job before quality does: a clip that needs sound, a square frame or a 4 second cut is not a Hailuo 2.3 job.

The same decision by use case, with the settings to pick in the studio. Each row names one model; the last column is the card to try when the first misses.

How to run the comparison

1. Pick four lanes in Compare on video, the most it takes: Kling 3.0, Minimax Hailuo 2.3, Minimax Hailuo 2.3 Pro and MiniMax H3.
2. Paste one of the six prompts above, or your own, in the same order: camera, subject and action, setting and light, one sound.
3. Run it. Each lane renders its own cheapest setting: Kling 3.0 at 3 seconds and 720p with sound, Hailuo 2.3 at 6 seconds and 768p, the Pro card at 6 seconds and 1080p, H3 at 5 seconds and 768p, the Hailuo lanes in their own frame. Treat it as a sketch and run the six-prompt test above in the Video studio. A failed lane is not billed.
4. Watch each clip muted. Then watch the Kling 3.0 and H3 lanes with sound, since the Hailuo lanes have none.
5. Render the keeper in the Video studio at the length, size and shape the job needs.

Our Kling page collects product prompts written for Kling, and the text to video page has prompts across both families.