2026-10-01 · VideoFreeTier

Hailuo AI Free: An Allowance Is a Channel Fact, Not a Model Fact

Hailuo AI charges 60 credits for every second of video it generates, and a free account can run only one model: MiniMax H3 — both read from the official product on 4 October 2026. Neither of those is an allowance. One is a rate and one is a restriction, and together they still do not say how many credits a free account is given. That missing half is what this page is about. An allowance is a fact about a channel, not about a model. One model, watched across five channels, produced six different grants in four different units. So "hailuo ai free" does not have a single answer sitting somewhere waiting to be found; it has one answer per channel — and the pages that answer it usually never say which channel they measured.

Watch the same finding as a 124-second video: youtu.be/KF6jPXrprGg

Nothing on this site sits behind a sign-up. Every dated figure we hold is published as CSV, JSON and Markdown on the data page — no account, no email gate, nothing to register for before you can read a number.

One model, six grants, four units

Here are all six of that one model's allowance observations, in full:

The model column is the same string in all six rows. Six grants, five channels, four kinds of unit: credits, generations per day, generations, and days of access.

The unit is the column readers skip, and it is the one carrying the information. Change the unit and you have changed what kind of place you are standing in:

• "daily free credits" — a hosted web tool that tops you up on a clock.
• "daily generations" — a product that counts finished outputs rather than credits.
• "sign-up bonus", one-off — an onboarding grant, given once and never refilled.
• "up to 20 generations", annual plan — a perk that exists because a year was paid for.
• "30 days membership" — an access window measured in time, not in output.

That is five different situations. A number tells you which one you are in only when you read its unit alongside it. A page that prints a count of free credits without naming a channel has not told you which of these five it means.

This is not a ranking, and not a comparison of generosity

Worth stating plainly, because the table above invites the wrong reading. Those six rows are not a leaderboard. Credits, generations, per-day caps and days of membership are not commensurable quantities, and this page does not add, average or order them.

The claim is narrower, and more useful: the unit is a fingerprint of the channel. Read the unit and you know what kind of surface you are on — a refilling web tool, a capped product, an onboarding grant, a paid perk, or a promotional window. Read only the number and you know nothing about where it applies.

What the Hailuo rows do and do not answer

This site does hold Hailuo AI records — two of them, both read from the official product on 4 October 2026:

Both are graded report, not vendor: they were read by the person who runs this site, no screenshot is on file, and the site has not independently re-verified them. The grade is part of the record, not a footnote to it — a reading from inside a product is still one person's reading until something corroborates it.

Now read what the pair actually answers. The first row is a rate — what a second of output costs. The second is a restriction — which model a free account may use. Neither is a stock — how much a free account is given. So after adding two rows, the question "how much free Hailuo do I get" is still unanswered here — and it is unanswered in a far more specific way than before. We know the price and we know the gate; we do not know the balance.

That distinction is worth keeping, because both kinds of number get filed together under the word "free":

• A stock answers "how much do I have?" — credits per day, generations per day, days of membership.
• A rate answers "what does one unit of output cost?" — credits per second, credits per generation.

You need both to get from an allowance to a finished video. A stock with no rate cannot tell you how many seconds you can make; a rate with no stock cannot tell you how many seconds you can afford. The dataset now holds one half of that pair for Hailuo and the other half for Seedance 2.5, which is exactly why this page still prints no free-credit figure for Hailuo.

Set against the four fields every row here carries, the position is easy to state precisely:

1. A channel, named. Satisfied — hailuoai.video, the official product, not a brand name on a landing page.
2. A metric and its unit. Satisfied for cost (credits per second), absent for the grant. The metric that is missing is the allowance itself.
3. A value for that grant. Absent. This is the whole gap, and it is one field wide.
4. A date and a source type. Satisfied for both rows — 4 October 2026, graded report.

Three of the four fields exist and the one that people actually came for does not. That is a more useful answer than "unmeasured", and it is the difference between a record with a hole in it and a guess.

The name in the query is not the name in the record

Look again at the model column and the channel column above: in all six rows they hold different strings. The thing people type into a search box and the product that actually grants them something are not the same object, and this dataset keeps them apart on purpose.

That distinction matters more, not less, when a brand is better known than its products. A query like "hailuo ai free" names a maker, and a maker can ship several surfaces — a web tool, a desktop client, an app, an API — each of which can grant differently. In our own rows the same model appears under a web tool, a client, a subscription host and an API, and the grants are not the same across them.

So the useful next step is not to hunt for a number. It is to decide which surface you are actually going to open, and then look for an allowance recorded against that. A figure attached to a brand, with no surface named, cannot be checked against anything you can log into.

The rule worth carrying to any model

When you read any "X free" figure, look for the channel name before you look at the number.

If a channel is named, you have something you can verify: a place, a unit, a date. If no channel is named, the figure is not about any product you can open — it is a sentence about a brand, and brands do not hand out allowances; products do.

That single rule is why this page answers "hailuo ai free" the way it does. We hold two Hailuo rows and neither of them is an allowance, so no free-credit figure for Hailuo appears here — not because the record is empty, but because what it holds measures a price. What we do have is the shape of a real answer, and the habit of asking for the channel before the count.

Scope of what this page says

The six-row table and the unit discussion above are observations of Seedance 2.5 across Jimeng, Doubao, Doubao Work, Mina Labs, Lovart, BytePlus ModelArk and vendor material, taken between July and August 2026. The two Hailuo rows are separate from them: read from hailuoai.video on 4 October 2026 and graded report. None of it is an industry-wide finding. The counts on this page — six allowance rows, five channels, four unit kinds — are counts of this site's own records, not claims about how free tiers behave in general.

Where this page says a question goes unanswered, that means unanswered in this dataset. It does not mean unanswered elsewhere, and no number here was arrived at by estimating a gap shut.

The full dataset — every row this site holds, each carrying channel, observation date and source type — is on the data page in three formats, free to use under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. To turn an allowance and a usable rate into an attempt count, the attempts-needed calculator uses only figures from that dataset and estimates nothing on your behalf. Related pages: Sora 2 Free for the field-by-field record of a first measurement, and Kling AI Free for grading who stated a number before you rely on it.