MiniMax
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.
Editorial verdict
Developers who want one China-origin platform for coding models, speech, video, image, music and multimodal agent tooling.
Avoid treating one billing key, quota or model endpoint as covering every modality without checking the current docs.
The international docs show MiniMax as a full multimodal API platform rather than only a Hailuo video product.
M3 <=512K: $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output and $0.06/M cache read; multimodal generation priced separately
Token Plan, Credits, Pay-as-you-go API billing, Team seats
Commercial use depends on the active API, Token Plan, Credits or enterprise terms for each modality.
Review API data handling, file-management retention, generated media storage and local deployment controls before sensitive workloads.
MiniMax-M2.7 supports Anthropic-compatible and OpenAI-compatible calling paths and is documented for AI coding tools.
Official docs cover speech, voice cloning, video, image, music, lyrics and file management APIs.
Local deployment is documented for vLLM, SGLang and MLX, but hardware requirements are high.
Checked June 21, 2026. Recheck the permanent M3 discount, over-512K access, modality prices, resource packs and free-trial labels before procurement.
Hailuo is the MiniMax entry when the task is video creation rather than API integration.
Qwen remains a broad baseline for open models and Alibaba Cloud deployment.
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.
official · en · verified 2026-06-01
Shows M3, Hailuo 2.3, Speech 2.8 and Music 2.6 on the public product surface.
official · en · verified 2026-06-01
Confirms the frontier coding, 1M context and native multimodal model details.
docs · en · verified 2026-06-01
Lists MiniMax text, audio, video and music model families.
docs · en · verified 2026-06-01
Confirms API coverage across text, speech, video, image, music and file management.
pricing · en · verified 2026-06-01
Confirms Token Plan, Credits, Audio Subscription, Video Packages and Pay-as-you-go pricing categories.
docs · en · verified 2026-06-01
Confirms local deployment paths for MiniMax-M2.7.
Last checked: 2026-08-04