Minimax H3 Image tested: best open-weights photo/poster model, but never say "realistic"
hakanavgin · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Redditor tested Minimax H3 Image (Pruned W4A8, ComfyUI workflow, 16MP, 6 steps, euler-simple) and found two compounding issues:
- Great at medium-distance faces and people, bland at illustration/stylized work. The model appears video-trained: outputs show video-still grain and fake compression artifacts. Usable outputs require generating at 16MP then downscaling.
- The text encoder follows instructions so strictly it backfires: mentioning "realistic" completely fries the image — it defaults to realism, so just saying "photo" suffices. Inconsistent runs are usually the model fighting the prompt; longer, more detailed prompts improve adherence.
Verdict: the best open-weights photography and poster model, beating MOSS, Krea2 and Qwen2.1, rivaling Ideogram-4 — but weak at illustration versus Krea2.
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