This MiniMax models directory compares the main MiniMax model families, including M-series language models, Hailuo video models, Speech, Music, and Agent products. For the general MiniMax AI chat experience, use the homepage.
Current language models (last verified September 30, 2026): MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview, released September 27, 2026, is the newest M-series model, with a 1M-token context and five effort levels, available only through MiniMax’s subscription plan and MiniMax Code for now. MiniMax M3 remains available on the pay-as-you-go API, alongside M2.7.
Current video models (last verified September 24, 2026): MiniMax H3 is the general-purpose video-and-audio model for 768P or 2K clips of 4–15 seconds. MiniMax H3 Max is the faster option, post-trained by fal.ai on H3, for 480P or 768P clips of 5–15 seconds from $0.05 per second. Hailuo 2.3, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, and Hailuo 02 are now legacy models.
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.
Verified MiniMax H3 guide covering 2K video, 4–15-second clips, native stereo audio, multimodal inputs, API pricing, open-weight limits, and Hailuo comparisons.
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 update: June 30, 2026 MiniMax Speech 2.8 is a MiniMax text-to-speech model family announced on January 23, 2026, for generating natural, expressive AI voice output. It is built for use cases such as narration, product voiceovers, voice interfaces, multilingual…
Last verified: September 30, 2026 (subscription prices and the M3.1-Flash-Preview comparison). Other M3 details were last fact-checked August 26, 2026. MiniMax M3 is an open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model built for coding, tool use, long-running agents, and large-context workloads. Released on…
Last update: June 30, 2026 MiniMax M2.1 is an earlier MiniMax M2-series language model focused on coding, agentic workflows, multilingual programming, and complex software tasks. Released on December 23, 2025, it was designed for software engineering, tool use, instruction following,…
MiniMax M2.7 is a text-and-tool-use model released by MiniMax on March 18, 2026 for software engineering, agent workflows, and professional document tasks. It remains listed in MiniMax’s main language-model catalog, but MiniMax-M3 has been the frontier M-series model since June…
Last verified: July 16, 2026. MiniMax M2.5 is an open-weight M-series language model released for coding, agentic tool use, search, and office productivity workflows. Its hosted MiniMax API identifiers are MiniMax-M2.5 and MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed. Its self-hosted repository identifier is MiniMaxAI Those…
Last update: June 30, 2026 MiniMax M2 is an earlier MiniMax M-series Mixture-of-Experts language model built for coding assistance, tool use, and agentic workflows. Written officially as MiniMax-M2, it combines a large sparse model design with about 230B total parameters…
Last verified: August 13, 2026. Quick answer: MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast is now listed by MiniMax as a legacy V1 image-to-video model. Its exact API ID remains MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3-Fast; it requires a first-frame image and supports 6 seconds at 768P or…
Last update: June 30, 2026 MiniMax Speech 2.5 is an earlier MiniMax speech generation model, launched on August 7, 2025, for turning written text into natural-sounding audio. It belongs in the text-to-speech and text-to-audio category, not speech-to-text transcription. This guide…
Independent guide. MiniMax-AI.chat is not affiliated with MiniMax. Product names, plans, interfaces, and availability were checked against MiniMax’s official pages on July 31, 2026. MiniMax Agent is MiniMax’s general-purpose AI workspace for long, multi-step tasks. It can plan and produce…
Legacy model notice — verified August 20, 2026: MiniMax’s current pay-as-you-go table explicitly labels Music 2.0 discontinued, and the current Music Generation request enum does not include music-2.0. The separate rate-limit table still names Music 2.0, but that capacity row…
Last update: June 30, 2026 MiniMax Speech 2.6 is an earlier MiniMax text-to-speech and text-to-audio model family, announced on October 30, 2025, for low-latency voice-agent workflows, multilingual speech synthesis, and improved handling of non-standard text formats. It is relevant for…
Last verified: August 13, 2026. Quick answer: MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 is now listed by MiniMax as a legacy V1 video model. Its exact API ID remains MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3, with documented text-to-video and image-to-video support: 6 seconds at 768P or 1080P, or…
MiniMax Speech-02 is a MiniMax speech model family for text-to-speech, text-to-audio, AI voice generation, emotional speech synthesis, multilingual TTS, and voice cloning workflows. It includes two commonly referenced variants: Speech-02-HD and Speech-02-Turbo. This guide focuses on MiniMax Speech-02 as a…
MiniMax Hailuo 02 is a MiniMax AI video generation model built for creating short video clips from text prompts and images. For creators, marketers, filmmakers, and developers, it sits in a useful category: fast-form AI video generation where prompt clarity,…
MiniMax-Text-01 is a long-context language model from the MiniMax-01 series. It has 456B total parameters, activates 45.9B parameters per token, uses a hybrid attention design with Mixture-of-Experts, and is described as supporting up to a 4M-token inference context in the…
MiniMax M1, also written as MiniMax-M1, is an open-weight reasoning LLM from MiniMax. It is built for long-context reasoning, software engineering, mathematical reasoning, and agent-style tasks that require large inputs and multi-step analysis. The main reasons people search for MiniMax…