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MiniMax API

MiniMax's developer platform for its language, video, speech and music models, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints.

Visit platform.minimax.io ↗
Our rating
★ 4.2 / 5 preliminary
Pricing
Paid · Pay as you go
Category
LLM API
For
Builder
Last updated
Oct 20, 2026

💲 MiniMax-M3.1-Flash: $0.15/M input, $0.60/M output, $0.015/M cached input. MiniMax-M3 from $0.30/M input. Speech, video and M Plan subscriptions priced separately. Source: platform.minimax.io (checked Oct 20, 2026).

Pros & cons

👍 Pros

  • Very low per-token price for a coding/agent model
  • 1M-token context window
  • Works with OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs, and in Claude Code

👎 Cons

  • M3.1 Flash benchmark claims are fresh and self-reported
  • Open weights not released at launch (promised later)

Latest release

Oct 19, 2026

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

New Flash model aimed at agents, coding and computer use: about 3x faster inference and 70% lower agent-task cost than its predecessor, priced at $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens; available via API, M Plan and MiniMax Code. Source ↗

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