Lightricks vs MiniMax

Lightricks — Application · Private · $335M raised · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  MiniMax — Foundation Models · Public · $12.6B mkt cap · 4 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

LTX Studio and Hailuo AI do comparable work on video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 4 capabilities — Shares image editing, image generation and video generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldLightricksMiniMax
Size$335M raised$12.6B mkt cap different basis
Employees600385 MiniMax has 36% fewer
Founded20132021 8 yrs later
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerApplicationAI agent, Application, Model API
HeadquartersJerusalem, IsraelShanghai, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Image editingImage generationVideo generation

Not verified for MiniMax · 1

Video editing

Recorded for Lightricks. MiniMax’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Lightricks · 5

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingMusic generationText generationText to speech

Recorded for MiniMax. Lightricks’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Lightricks

Application

FacetuneApplication

Photo and video editing app for portraits, with generative retouching and background tools.

LTX StudioApplication

Generates and edits video scenes from a script, with control over characters, shots and camera.

PhotoleapApplication

AI-powered photo editing app with one-tap enhancement, background removal, object removal, AI art generation and dozens of AI creative filters.

VideoleapApplication

AI-powered video editor with AI infinite zoom, AI background/object removal, AI text-to-image and template-driven social video creation.

MiniMax

Application

Hailuo AIApplication

Generates video clips from text prompts and still images.

MiniMax AudioApplication

Text-to-speech and AI music generation platform (voice generator, AI music generator, voice isolator) from MiniMax.

星野 (Xingye)Application

Immersive AI-companion / virtual-character community platform where users create, customize and chat with AI agents; MiniMax's China-market app, released internationally as Talkie.

No counterpart

MiniMax sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Lightricks yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

MiniMax AgentAI agent

Runs multi-step agents that build software and documents from a written brief.

MiniMax DesignAI agent

Multimedia creation platform coordinating multiple AI agents around a visual canvas for design work.

Model API

MiniMax Open PlatformModel API

Hosted API for MiniMax's text, video, speech and music models, billed per token.

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