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Speed up MiniMax-H3 video with Pika's style — up to 2.4x faster

This is an add-on file for the MiniMax-H3 model that brings Pika's signature motion style and speeds up video rendering up to 2.4x — without reinstalling the model itself.

01Pika-Labs/Pika-H3-Flex-Turbo-LoRA 16684k downloads/moimage-to-video

A LoRA is a small file that changes how an already-installed video model, MiniMax-H3, behaves, adding Pika's motion style to it.

When it helps

Useful if you already generate video with MiniMax-H3 on a powerful GPU (H200/A100-class, 24GB+ VRAM). Not worth it without MiniMax-H3 or on a regular laptop.

Pros

  • Renders clips 1.5–2.4x faster, according to Pika's own numbers
  • Video comes out with audio already synced to the picture
  • A compressed version is 12x smaller at 96% of the quality
  • Installs without reinstalling MiniMax-H3 — just drop in a file

Cons

  • Speed was only measured on server-grade H200 and A100 cards
  • MiniMax-H3 itself needs a GPU with 24GB+ VRAM even without this
  • The fastest 2-step mode is a draft, not for final video

How to set it up — step by step

  1. 1Download the LoRA file from Hugging Face for the step count you need — 2, 4, or 8.
  2. 2Put the file into the loras folder of your ComfyUI setup (a video-workflow app).
  3. 3Add a "LoraLoaderModelOnly" step to your generation workflow.
  4. 4Send your agent the text from the block below.
  5. 5Run a render at 2 steps for a draft, or 4–8 steps for a final clip.
  6. 6Check the result — the audio should match the picture.

Text for your agent

Copy this and send it to your agent — Claude Code, Codex, any of them:

Open this LoRA https://huggingface.co/Pika-Labs/Pika-H3-Flex-Turbo-LoRA, explain how to plug it into my MiniMax-H3 setup in ComfyUI, and show which file variant (2, 4, or 8 steps) to use for drafts versus final renders.

Needs a serious GPU — the authors only benchmark on datacenter-grade H200 and A100 cards, and the underlying MiniMax-H3 model itself needs a GPU with at least 24 GB of VRAM even without this add-on; a regular laptop will not handle it.

Open on Hugging Face