MiniMax

Primary indie-usable Chinese multimodal API alongside Moonshot. Prefer Anthropic/OpenAI for coding agents…

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Primary indie-usable Chinese multimodal API alongside Moonshot. Prefer Anthropic/OpenAI for coding agents; MiniMax when you want one vendor for M3 + cheap TTS/video on intl endpoints. Strengths: International self-serve multimodal stack (text+TTS+video+image) with public token card; OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints; Aggressive M3 promo pricing + long context.

Overall

7.8

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-09-14

Capability fit

8.4

Price / performance

8.8

Latency / reliability

7.8

Developer & agent DX

8.2

Privacy / data retention

6.2

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

4.8

Maturity / track record

7.6

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: MiniMax PAYG pricing: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo · MiniMax Token Plan: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-token-plan · MiniMax platform: https://platform.minimax.io

Primary indie-usable Chinese multimodal API alongside Moonshot. Prefer Anthropic/OpenAI for coding agents; MiniMax when you want one vendor for M3 + cheap TTS/video on intl endpoints.

Strengths

· International self-serve multimodal stack (text+TTS+video+image) with public token card
· OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints
· Aggressive M3 promo pricing + long context

Weaknesses

· CN vs intl platforms/keys are separate — easy to misconfigure
· Music APIs discontinued for new users (2026-08-20)
· Frontier quality still trails Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini on hard agent benches

Pricing notes

As of 2026-09-14 (platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo): International api.minimax.io (OpenAI + Anthropic-compat). MiniMax-M3 ≤512k: list $0.60/$2.40 → permanent 50% off $0.30/$1.20 per 1M (cache read $0.06); >512k $0.60/$2.40 after promo. Priority tier 1.5×. M2.7 $0.30/$1.20 (highspeed $0.60/$2.40). TTS speech-2.8-turbo $60/M chars, hd $100/M. ASR $0.38/hr. Video H3 768P $0.08/s / 2K $0.13/s. image-01 $0.0035. Token Plan (Plus/Max/Ultra) is closed to new purchases; its figure was removed. It is replaced by M Plan, listed at platform.minimax.io/docs/m-plan/monthly-offer as of 2026-10-21 at regular prices of Go $22/month, Explore $55/month and Build $132/month (first month 50% off; not stored as rows). Mainland keys use api.minimaxi.com — not interchangeable.

Regions: global, cn, usLast reviewed: 2026-09-14Status: active

Sourced pricing

Contract status ambiguous · input_output_split_not_a_single_rate. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=minimax

MiniMax-M3 standard <=512k · usd_per_million_input_tokens · amount withheld · ambiguous · normalized null
MiniMax-M3 priority <=512k · usd_per_million_input_tokens · amount withheld · ambiguous · normalized null
MiniMax-M2.7 · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.3 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.7 · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $1.2 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.7 · usd_per_million_cached_input_tokens · $0.06 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.7 · usd_per_million_cache_write_tokens · $0.375 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.6 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $2.4 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed · usd_per_million_cached_input_tokens · $0.06 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed · usd_per_million_cache_write_tokens · $0.375 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.5 · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.3 · sourced_token_price
MiniMax-M2.5 · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $1.2 · sourced_token_price

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