MiniMax
degraded
Chinese frontier LLM + TTS + Video. Free credits.
LLMest. 2021 · Shanghai, China
85
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
Free trial credits · phone required
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
1m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
MiniMax-Text-01 (4M context)MiniMax-SpeechHailuo Video
Monthly Tokens
Free trial credits on signup
No credit card needed
Phone verification required
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=300">"YOUR_MINIMAX_KEY",
base_url=300">"https://api.minimaxi.com/v1",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=300">"MiniMax-Text-01",
messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)// Overview
MiniMax offers MiniMax-Text-01 (4M context!), speech synthesis, and video generation through a single API. Known for the largest context window of any model. Free trial credits on signup.
// Pros
- 4M token context window (world's largest)
- LLM + TTS + Video in one platform
- OpenAI-compatible
// Cons
- Phone verification required
- Chinese-language portal
- Primarily China-focused
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 1m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)75/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)78/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)76/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
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