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MiniMax

Multimodal foundation models and developer API for text, code, video, speech, and music.

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Cloud
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WebAPI
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Self-contained (on-device)
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Jun 14, 2026

MiniMax is a Shanghai foundation-model lab whose platform serves its own model family through a developer API and agent app: the M-series LLMs (M2/M3) built for coding and agentic workflows with up to a 1M-token context, the Hailuo video models, and MiniMax Speech and Music. Developers get chat completions, text-to-speech, and text-to-video on token-based pricing, with a free agent tier for getting started.

Capabilities 5

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Model inference / serving (primary capability)
  • Speech synthesis (TTS) (secondary capability)
  • Music generation (secondary capability)
  • Text-to-video (primary capability)
  • Image-to-video (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Coding- and agent-tuned M-series models
  • Open-weight models on Hugging Face
  • Multimodal: text, video, speech, music
  • Free agent tier to get started
  • China-based; data-residency considerations
  • Free agent tier is credit-limited
  • Docs less mature than US incumbents

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