MiniMax

MiniMax is a Chinese foundation model company offering full-stack multimodal APIs: text generation (M2.7, M2.5, M2.1, M2, M1, Text-01), speech synthesis (Speech 2.8/2.6/2.5), voice cloning, voice design, image generation (Image-01), video generation (Hailuo 2.3), and music generation (Music-2.6).

MiniMax publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Files API, Image API, Music API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, Multi-Modal, and Voice.

MiniMax’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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33.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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1 APIs

Artificial Intelligence LLM Inference Multi-Modal Voice Video Music Image

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 33.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.7 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 18

Access Clarity 7.1 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MiniMax Files API

The Files API from MiniMax — 5 operation(s) for files.

MiniMax Image API

The Image API from MiniMax — 1 operation(s) for image.

MiniMax Music API

The Music API from MiniMax — 1 operation(s) for music.

MiniMax Text Generation API

The Text Generation API from MiniMax — 1 operation(s) for text generation.

MiniMax Text to Audio API

The Text to Audio API from MiniMax — 3 operation(s) for text to audio.

MiniMax Video API

The Video API from MiniMax — 3 operation(s) for video.

MiniMax Voice API

The Voice API from MiniMax — 4 operation(s) for voice.

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax Files Image API

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax Files Music API

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax Files Text Generation API

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax Files Text to Audio API

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax Files Video API

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax Files Voice API

OPEN COLLECTION

MiniMax API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Minimax Ai Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Minimax Ai Rate Limits

8 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Minimax Ai Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Minimax Ai Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Minimax Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Minimax Ai Agentic Access

18 operations · 14 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: minimax-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/minimax-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: MiniMax
kind: company
description: 'MiniMax is a Chinese foundation model company offering full-stack multimodal APIs: text generation (M2.7, M2.5,
  M2.1, M2, M1, Text-01), speech synthesis (Speech 2.8/2.6/2.5), voice cloning, voice design, image generation (Image-01),
  video generation (Hailuo 2.3), and music generation (Music-2.6).'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/minimax-ai.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Inference
- Multi-Modal
- Voice
- Video
- Music
- Image
tags_raw:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- Multimodal
- Voice
- Video
- Music
- Image
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: minimax-ai:minimax-ai-files-api
  name: MiniMax Files API
  description: The Files API from MiniMax — 5 operation(s) for files.
  humanURL: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.minimax.io
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/minimax-ai-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.minimax.io
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits
  - type: ChinaBaseURL
    url: https://api.minimaxi.com
- aid: minimax-ai:minimax-ai-image-api
  name: MiniMax Image API
  description: The Image API from MiniMax — 1 operation(s) for image.
  humanURL: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.minimax.io
  tags:
  - Image
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/minimax-ai-image-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.minimax.io
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits
  - type: ChinaBaseURL
    url: https://api.minimaxi.com
- aid: minimax-ai:minimax-ai-music-api
  name: MiniMax Music API
  description: The Music API from MiniMax — 1 operation(s) for music.
  humanURL: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.minimax.io
  tags:
  - Music
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/minimax-ai-music-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.minimax.io
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits
  - type: ChinaBaseURL
    url: https://api.minimaxi.com
- aid: minimax-ai:minimax-ai-text-generation-api
  name: MiniMax Text Generation API
  description: The Text Generation API from MiniMax — 1 operation(s) for text generation.
  humanURL: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.minimax.io
  tags:
  - Text Generation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/minimax-ai-text-generation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.minimax.io
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits
  - type: ChinaBaseURL
    url: https://api.minimaxi.com
- aid: minimax-ai:minimax-ai-text-to-audio-api
  name: MiniMax Text to Audio API
  description: The Text to Audio API from MiniMax — 3 operation(s) for text to audio.
  humanURL: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.minimax.io
  tags:
  - Text to Audio
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/minimax-ai-text-to-audio-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.minimax.io
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits
  - type: ChinaBaseURL
    url: https://api.minimaxi.com
- aid: minimax-ai:minimax-ai-video-api
  name: MiniMax Video API
  description: The Video API from MiniMax — 3 operation(s) for video.
  humanURL: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.minimax.io
  tags:
  - Video
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/minimax-ai-video-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.minimax.io
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits
  - type: ChinaBaseURL
    url: https://api.minimaxi.com
- aid: minimax-ai:minimax-ai-voice-api
  name: MiniMax Voice API
  description: The Voice API from MiniMax — 4 operation(s) for voice.
  humanURL: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.minimax.io
  tags:
  - Voice
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/minimax-ai-voice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/api-overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.minimax.io
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits
  - type: ChinaBaseURL
    url: https://api.minimaxi.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/minimax-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/minimax-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/minimax-ai-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/MiniMax-AI
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/minimax-ai
- type: Website
  url: https://www.minimax.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://platform.minimax.io/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/minimax-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/minimax-ai-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/minimax-ai-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.minimax.io/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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