Last reviewed: August 26, 2026. This independent developer hub organizes source-checked MiniMax API documentation by task. Use it to choose a current model, create a key, select the correct regional base URL, send text or multimodal requests, and plan production limits. Product names, access rules, prices, and limits can change, so open the cited MiniMax source on each guide before production deployment.
Music access note — verified August 26, 2026: MiniMax says paid Music Generation and Lyrics Generation API access is unavailable to new users. Eligible existing paying users may continue. Published schemas and rate-limit rows describe technical behavior for entitled accounts; they do not establish new-user eligibility.
The article cards below remain the complete chronological archive. The routes above are the recommended task-based starting points, not a claim that every older article describes the current product state without its displayed verification date.
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…
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…
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…
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: 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 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 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…
Last verified against official MiniMax pages: September 30, 2026. MiniMax M Plan is MiniMax’s monthly or yearly subscription for individuals. One plan gives you MiniMax’s own agent app, MiniMax Code, plus a Subscription Key you can plug into Claude Code,…
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Last verified: August 13, 2026. Music API availability rechecked: August 20, 2026. The MiniMax API gives developers server-side access to MiniMax language, speech, video, image, music, voice, and file services. For a new text integration, use MiniMax-M3 with either the…