MiniMax
MiniMax Image API is tracked for image-01, text-to-image generation, image-to-image generation, aspect-ratio controls and API-based creative image workflows.
Editorial verdict
Developers adding Chinese image generation to apps through a documented API.
Avoid it when you need a full no-code design editor rather than an API workflow.
MiniMax Image API fills the image modality in MiniMax's international multimodal stack.
Token Plan image quotas, Credits and pay-as-you-go billing vary by plan
Token Plan, Credits, Pay-as-you-go API billing
Generated-image use should be checked against current product terms and source-image rights.
Avoid uploading confidential visual assets until image retention and training-use terms are reviewed.
Use image-01 for prompt-based image generation with aspect-ratio settings.
Use image-to-image when a source visual guides the output direction.
Recheck image-01 availability, quotas and output-rights terms before production.
Jimeng is more consumer-creative; MiniMax Image is more API-oriented.
docs · en · verified 2026-08-04
Documents text-to-image and image-to-image generation.
Last checked: 2026-08-04