MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview launched September 27, 2026: a 1M-context coding model with five effort levels, available only through MiniMax's subscription plan and MiniMax Code. What it costs, how it compares with M3, and why there are no benchmarks yet.
MiniMax H3 Max guide: $0.05/s at 480P and $0.08/s at 768P, input-material fees, worked cost examples, access through the MiniMax API, MiniMax Design and fal, the free question, and when to choose H3 instead.
Last verified: August 30, 2026. The test results on this page were produced by MiniMax-AI.chat on the dates stated in each section. There is no single best AI for coding, and any page that gives you one name without telling…
Last verified: August 30, 2026. Free-tier rate limits, Token Plan allowances, and pay-as-you-go prices were rechecked against MiniMax documentation on this date. Promotional offers on consumer products change without notice and are not covered by this verification. Short answer: partly.…
Verified MiniMax H3 guide covering 2K video, 4–15-second clips, native stereo audio, multimodal inputs, API pricing, open-weight limits, and Hailuo comparisons.
We tested MiniMax M3 on 180 original English images—60 OCR tasks, 60 charts and tables, and 60 UI screenshots—with exact-answer scoring. It passed 165/180 (91.67%); see latency, failures, cost, and downloadable evidence.
We sent the same 50 deterministic tasks through MiniMax Chat Completions, Responses, and Anthropic Messages twice. All 300 calls were correct; three differed only in JSON whitespace.
We compared MiniMax M3 Standard and Priority in 200 matched pairs. Median TTFT was tied, while Priority reduced p95 by 64.7%. See the cache caveat, accuracy, cost, and data.
We generated and OCR-scored 300 MiniMax Image-01 images across six English text categories. See strict accuracy, difficulty results, a 36-image audit sheet, cost, and data.
We ran 300 live MiniMax M3 tool-calling requests across 100 JSON schemas. See the 99.33% strict success rate, two real failure modes, latency, cost, code, and downloadable data.
Last verified: July 20, 2026. Evidence status: This guide was validated against MiniMax’s published API references and schemas. The examples were reviewed for request structure, parameter names, response handling, and documented limits. No paid API request, audio-quality comparison, latency measurement,…
The MiniMax Lyrics API is a dedicated JSON endpoint for writing a complete song or revising and continuing an existing lyric draft. It returns a title, comma-separated style tags, and structured lyrics that MiniMax documents as suitable for the lyrics…
The MiniMax Music Cover API creates a different rendition of reference audio while using a prompt to describe the target style. It supports a quick one-step request, where MiniMax extracts the source lyrics automatically, and a two-step workflow, where an…
MiniMax M3 is publicly downloadable, but “open-weight under the MiniMax Community License” is the most precise description. MiniMax’s release post calls M3 open-weight, while a model page also uses open-source language. The controlling license is a custom community license, not…
Core model behavior and examples last verified July 20, 2026; availability, pricing, and rate-limit source coverage rechecked August 20, 2026. MiniMax M2-her is a text-only language model built for character role-play, multi-turn dialogue, and story-driven conversations. It is not simply…
MiniMax Code v3.0.55.98 passed four of five original, dependency-free Node repository tasks on Windows. Each task received one attempt and was graded by predefined external tests; the parser failure remained in the denominator.
Independent MiniMax M3 coding benchmark across 10 original repository-repair tasks, with a 7/10 pass@1 result, 114 hidden assertions, latency, token use, cost, failures, and reproducibility files.
Original hardware-and-sizing review: July 19, 2026. Runtime-support update: August 26, 2026. Historical benchmark and release-state notes remain explicitly dated. MiniMax M3 can run on your own infrastructure, but it is a data-center-scale model, not a laptop model. MiniMax describes M3…
Last verified: July 19, 2026 The most clearly documented way to use MiniMax AI in VS Code is the third-party Kilo Code extension with the MiniMax-M3 model and a MiniMax Token Plan Subscription Key. MiniMax publishes the provider settings, but…
Last verified: August 26, 2026. Music eligibility and the published Music rate-limit row were rechecked separately; the numeric row remains visible in MiniMax’s central table but does not grant new-user access. The published MiniMax API rate limit for MiniMax-M3 is…
MiniMax WebSocket TTS is the synchronous speech route for applications that need audio chunks before an entire utterance has finished synthesizing. A server connects to , authenticates with a MiniMax API key, starts a task, submits text, decodes the returned…
The MiniMax Voice Design API creates a reusable synthetic voice from a written description. You send a voice prompt and a short preview script to POST /v1/voice_design; MiniMax returns a voice_id and hex-encoded trial audio. This guide covers the exact…
We tested Speech 2.8 HD and Turbo across eight languages with three repetitions per model-language cell. This objective API benchmark reports delivery reliability, latency, real-time factor, WAV signal integrity, and cost—not human-rated naturalness.
MiniMax Speech can generate localized voiceover tracks from approved translated scripts, but multilingual support alone does not make a localization publishable. A production workflow still needs translation control, a terminology glossary, voice rights, explicit language routing, timing checks, fluent reviewers,…
The MiniMax Music API can create a vocal song from a style prompt and lyrics, generate an instrumental without lyrics, or produce a new rendition from reference audio through the dedicated cover model. This guide separates those workflows, shows the…
The MiniMax Image API exposes one synchronous endpoint for two documented Image-01 workflows: create an image from a text prompt, or generate a new scene while preserving the key characteristics of a person supplied in one reference image. This guide…
Effective Hailuo prompts describe one readable shot: a clear subject, a visible action, a controlled setting, and an intentional camera movement. MiniMax also documents 15 bracketed camera commands for specific text-to-video, image-to-video, and first-and-last-frame models. This guide shows how to…
Last verified: July 18, 2026. The MiniMax M3 vs M2.7 decision favors M3 for most new integrations when you need image or video input, more than 204,800 tokens of combined context, controllable reasoning, or MiniMax’s M-series model positioned for long-running…
Last verified: July 18, 2026. A MiniMax API key works only when the credential, service region, base URL, protocol, and route are configured together. International accounts use api.minimax.io; Mainland China accounts use api.minimaxi.com. MiniMax also issues two different credentials: a…
Last verified: August 13, 2026 The direct answer: The company behind MiniMax AI is MiniMax Group Inc. It is not a wholly owned subsidiary of Alibaba, Tencent, or another corporate parent. MiniMax Group Inc. is publicly traded, so its economic…
Last verified: August 26, 2026 MiniMax Design is MiniMax’s desktop AI creation platform for commercial content workflows. It is the current name used for the product that MiniMax introduced in June 2026 as MiniMax Hub. The app coordinates planning, copy,…
Last verified: August 13, 2026 The practical answer to how to use MiniMax AI is to begin with the task, not with a model name. MiniMax offers several separate routes: a general-purpose agent, a desktop creative workspace, a coding product,…
Last verified: July 18, 2026. MiniMax exposes an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions interface, so an application that already uses the OpenAI SDK can point a client at MiniMax with a different base URL, API key, and model ID. For MiniMax M3,…
Last verified: July 18, 2026. Verification scope: We reviewed MiniMax’s official M3 tool-use guide, OpenAI-compatible request schema, server-tool documentation, and error-code reference. The syntax and state-handling rules below were checked against those sources. We did not execute a live API…
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Last verified: July 18, 2026. Verification scope: We reviewed MiniMax’s official documentation, request schemas, usage fields, endpoint syntax, and model-support tables. We did not execute the examples against a live account because no MiniMax API credentials were available. Run them…
Last verified: August 20, 2026. Hosted API access update — August 20, 2026: MiniMax says paid Music Generation and Lyrics Generation APIs are no longer available to new users; existing paying users can continue using their current API services. The…
Last reviewed: August 26, 2026. This independent review is based on the current MiniMax-controlled policy directory, product-specific policies, terms, and developer documentation. It is not a penetration test, code audit, legal opinion, or compliance certification. MiniMax-AI.chat is not owned by…
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Last verified: August 26, 2026. Current Python and JavaScript source, CLI release state, video defaults, and live tool-count discrepancies were rechecked. Music account eligibility: August 20, 2026. MiniMax MCP connects compatible AI clients to MiniMax speech, voice, image, and Video…
Last verified: July 18, 2026. MiniMax publishes M3 setup instructions for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, plus an M3 entry in its “Other Tools” guide for OpenCode. The four tools do not use one universal configuration: Claude Code uses the…
Last checked: July 10, 2026 MiniMax Image 01 is an AI image generation model from MiniMax, built for turning text prompts into images and, through the official API, generating new images from a single subject reference image. It is most…
Models, access, pricing, and product status last verified: August 26, 2026. MiniMax AI and ChatGPT overlap in chat, reasoning, coding, research, and multimodal work, but they are not equivalent products. ChatGPT is the more integrated everyday workspace: it combines conversation,…
We ran 62 live MiniMax M3 Responses API calls: a replicated 60-request core from 32K to 520K tokens plus one-shot 768K and 900K pilots, with accuracy, latency, cost, caching, failures, and downloadable evidence.
Last checked: August 13, 2026. Current-model notice: MiniMax’s main catalog now lists MiniMax-H3 as the current video model and places Hailuo 2.3, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, and Hailuo 02 under Legacy Models. The legacy V1 text-to-video and image-to-video references still document…
Last verified: August 13, 2026. The MiniMax File Management API, also described here as the MiniMax File API, is a supporting layer for other MiniMax services. It can accept source files for specific workflows, list uploaded files by purpose, return…
Last verified: July 5, 2026. MiniMax Audio is an AI audio creation platform for generating speech from text, cloning voices, working with official voice options, and producing multilingual voice content. MiniMax describes the product as a Text-to-Speech platform with voice…
Models, access, download policy, plans, and editing features last verified: August 26, 2026. Upcoming Suno policy — effective September 3, 2026: Free receives seven lifetime trial downloads; Pro 20 per month; Premier 60 per month. Monthly allowances reset without rollover,…
MiniMax voice cloning lets you create a custom voice from an uploaded audio sample and then use the resulting voice_id in MiniMax text-to-speech workflows. The safest way to use it is not to start with the API call. Start with…
Last verified: August 13, 2026 Status update: S2V-01 remains documented on MiniMax’s V1 Subject-Reference endpoint, while MiniMax-H3 is now the current general-purpose video model on Video Generation V2. MiniMax Hailuo S2V-01 is an older, task-specific Subject Reference model for generating…
Video model, API, pricing, and capacity details updated: August 13, 2026. Other sections last reviewed: July 5, 2026. Executive Summary: Should Agencies Use MiniMax AI? MiniMax AI for marketing agencies is best understood as a multimodal production layer, not a…
Independent-site notice: MiniMax-AI.chat is an independent publisher and is not MiniMax, Hailuo AI, YouTube, or Google. This guide’s MiniMax video model and capacity details were updated August 13, 2026; MiniMax Music API access and pricing were rechecked August 20, 2026;…
Last verified: July 17, 2026. General information, not legal advice. This page has not been reviewed by a qualified lawyer, DPO, or employment compliance specialist. MiniMax AI for HR and Recruiting is best understood as a general-purpose AI and agent…
MiniMax AI for Real Estate is best understood as a practical creative stack, not a plug-and-play real estate CRM. Real estate agents and brokerages can use MiniMax’s video, speech, and text capabilities to create listing videos, AI voice tours, localized…
MiniMax AI can support carefully governed healthcare content and administrative work, but it is a general-purpose AI platform—not a medical authority, diagnostic system, or substitute for a qualified clinician. Patient data, clinical decisions, and regulated workflows require controls that a…
Last verified: July 17, 2026. General information, not legal advice. This page has not been reviewed by a qualified lawyer, DPO, or employment compliance specialist. MiniMax AI for Legal Teams is best understood as an evaluation topic, not as a…
Last verified: July 18, 2026. MiniMax M3 can accept text, images, and videos through MiniMax’s OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and Anthropic-compatible Messages interfaces. It analyzes the supplied media and returns text. It does not generate a new image or video through…
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