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MiniMax

MiniMax API Platform

MiniMax API Platform is tracked as the developer entry for MiniMax M3, MiniMax-M2.7/M2.7-highspeed, M2.5, M2-her, Speech 2.8/2.6, Hailuo 2.3/2.3 Fast, image-01, Music 2.6, Token Plan, Credits, pay-as-you-go billing and official MCP tooling.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

Editorial verdict

Best for

Developers who want one China-origin platform for coding models, speech, video, image, music and multimodal agent tooling.

Avoid if

Avoid treating one billing key, quota or model endpoint as covering every modality without checking the current docs.

Why it matters

The international docs show MiniMax as a full multimodal API platform rather than only a Hailuo video product.

Trust: 7/7 sources verified, recently checkedCoverage: 100/100

Pricing

M3 <=512K: $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output and $0.06/M cache read; multimodal generation priced separately

Payment

Token Plan, Credits, Pay-as-you-go API billing, Team seats

Commercial use

Commercial use depends on the active API, Token Plan, Credits or enterprise terms for each modality.

Privacy

Review API data handling, file-management retention, generated media storage and local deployment controls before sensitive workloads.

Use-case fit

Coding and agent workflows

Strong

MiniMax-M2.7 supports Anthropic-compatible and OpenAI-compatible calling paths and is documented for AI coding tools.

Multimodal generation API

Strong

Official docs cover speech, voice cloning, video, image, music, lyrics and file management APIs.

Self-hosted M2.7 evaluation

Medium

Local deployment is documented for vLLM, SGLang and MLX, but hardware requirements are high.

Global user checklist

RegistrationConfirmedThe international platform exposes account, API key and Token Plan flows.
English UIConfirmedDeveloper docs and product surfaces are English-facing.
API and docsConfirmedOfficial docs list text, speech, video, image, music, file-management and model-list APIs.
International paymentPartialCurrent pay-as-you-go rates are public across M3, M2.7, Hailuo 2.3, Speech 2.8 and Music 2.6. Token Plan, Credits and resource packs remain separate billing paths; account availability should be verified.

Checked June 21, 2026. Recheck the permanent M3 discount, over-512K access, modality prices, resource packs and free-trial labels before procurement.

Pros

  • - Broad official multimodal API coverage
  • - The homepage now surfaces M3, Hailuo 2.3, Speech 2.8 and Music 2.6
  • - Anthropic-compatible and OpenAI-compatible text endpoints
  • - Token Plan and Credits cover multiple modalities
  • - Official MCP and local deployment documentation exist
  • - Public pricing covers text, video, speech, voice cloning, voice design and music

Cons

  • - Token Plan keys and pay-as-you-go API keys are separate
  • - Quotas, model names and pricing vary by modality
  • - M3 input above 512K is currently limited and requires sales access
  • - Discounts and free-trial labels can change independently of base API rates

Decision paths

Use Hailuo for the consumer video workflow

Hailuo is the MiniMax entry when the task is video creation rather than API integration.

Compare with Qwen for open-model ecosystem reach

Qwen remains a broad baseline for open models and Alibaba Cloud deployment.

Sources

MiniMax API pricing

pricing · en · verified 2026-08-04

Lists current M3 and M2.7 token rates, Hailuo per-video prices, Speech character and voice prices, Music per-song pricing and resource-pack availability.

MiniMax homepage

official · en · verified 2026-06-01

Shows M3, Hailuo 2.3, Speech 2.8 and Music 2.6 on the public product surface.

MiniMax M3 model page

official · en · verified 2026-06-01

Confirms the frontier coding, 1M context and native multimodal model details.

MiniMax models overview

docs · en · verified 2026-06-01

Lists MiniMax text, audio, video and music model families.

MiniMax API overview

docs · en · verified 2026-06-01

Confirms API coverage across text, speech, video, image, music and file management.

MiniMax pricing overview

pricing · en · verified 2026-06-01

Confirms Token Plan, Credits, Audio Subscription, Video Packages and Pay-as-you-go pricing categories.

MiniMax local deployment guide

docs · en · verified 2026-06-01

Confirms local deployment paths for MiniMax-M2.7.

Last checked: 2026-08-04

Reviews

Availability snapshot

Availability
available
English UI
full
API
available
Rating
4.4 (0)

Latest updates

Latest changes
Pricing · 2026-08-04

MiniMax multimodal API pricing refreshed

MiniMax's live API pricing lists permanently discounted M3 rates for context up to 512K at $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output and $0.06/M cache-read tokens; 512K-1M costs $0.60, $2.40 and $0.12, with access above 512K currently limited. M2.7 costs $0.30/M multimodal input and $1.20/M output, while Highspeed costs $0.60 and $2.40. Hailuo 2.3 starts at $0.28 per 768P six-second video, Speech 2.8 Turbo at $60/M characters, rapid voice cloning at $1.50 per voice, voice design at $3 per voice, and Music 2.6 at $0.15 per song with a free-trial label.

Release · 2026-06-21

MiniMax Speech 2.8 profile refreshed

MiniMax Speech 2.8 adds native sound tags for breaths, pauses, hesitations and expressive actions, plus higher-fidelity voice cloning from a 10-second sample and cleaner output with reduced background noise and digital artifacts. MiniMax also highlights improved cross-lingual pronunciation and reduced accent bleed for the Mandarin-Japanese pair, with more languages planned. The model is live through MiniMax Audio and the Open Platform API; cloning quality and human-indistinguishability claims remain vendor-reported and require consent-aware testing.

Release · 2026-06-21

MiniMax Music 2.6 profile refreshed

MiniMax Music 2.6 adds stronger rhythmic tension and pauses, reworked low-end acoustics, lo-fi and indie vocal character, prompt control over BPM, key, song structure and emotional arc, and a new Cover workflow that preserves a source melody while changing genre, arrangement or lyrics. MiniMax reports first-packet latency below 20 seconds and released three Agent Skills: minimax-music-gen, minimax-music-playlist and buddy-sings. The announcement's 14-day beta benefits, including 500 consumer creations and 100 extra Token Plan API calls per day, were launch-period offers and are no longer presented as current entitlements.

Release · 2026-06-21

Hailuo 2.3 and Media Agent profile refreshed

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 improves complex body motion, physics and command following, dynamic-camera rendering, stylization, facial micro-expressions and object-motion response over Hailuo 02. MiniMax says it retained Hailuo 02 pricing, while Hailuo 2.3 Fast can reduce batch-generation cost by up to 50%. The update is available through Hailuo AI web, mobile and the Open Platform API. Hailuo's former Video Agent also evolved into a globally launched Media Agent for one-click or step-by-step multimodal creation using text, images, video and audio.

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