ERNIE Bot
BaiduChina
25
Baidu's flagship assistant, now on open-weight ERNIE models.
- Version
- 5.0-thinking-preview
- Cost
- Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available.
- Model
- DeepSeek-V3.1
MiniMax
MiniMax · #11 most active of 27 in Writing
Shanghai lab shipping the M-series text models alongside its Hailuo video and speech products.
100
Trust score · Verified
2 data points checked · 2026-09-10
Current version
M3
Entry cost
from $0.3/org/mo
Changes / 30d
5
The short answers · verified September 15, 2026
- What is the latest version of MiniMax?
- The current shipped version of MiniMax is M3, as of September 15, 2026.
- How much does MiniMax cost?
- MiniMax starts at $0.3 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of September 15, 2026.
- What AI model does MiniMax use?
- MiniMax runs primarily on H3.
Source: MiniMax — www.minimax.io · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- Interleaved thinking
- Tool calling
- Open weights
- Long context
- Text Generation
- Code Generation
- Video Generation
- Speech Generation
- Music Generation
- Multimodal
- AI Agents
- Long Context
- API Access
- LLM
- Video generation
- Speech synthesis
- Music generation
- Code generation
- API
- multimodal
- code-generation
- text-to-video
- text-to-speech
- text-to-music
- agents
- long-context
- Frontier Coding
- Agentic Capabilities
- Speech & Music Generation
- Agentic
- Coding
- Open-weight (H3)
- Audio Generation
- Coding Assistant
- text generation
- code generation
- video generation
- speech generation
- music generation
- agent team
- Coding Agent
- Agent capabilities
- Agent Capabilities
- Image Generation
- AI Agent Platform
- Open Weights
- Speech
- Open-weight
- Speech Synthesis
- Language Models
Pricing
Free
Free
API input /M
$0.3
API output /M
$1.2
Entry price over time
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
H3
MiniMax
- disclosed
M2.5
MiniMax
- disclosed
M2.7
MiniMax
- disclosed
M3
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax Code
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax H3
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax M2.7
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax M3
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax Music 3.0
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax Speech 2.8
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax-M2.1
MiniMax
- disclosed
Music 3.0
MiniMax
- disclosed
Speech 2.8
MiniMax
Context window
1000000
Public API
yes
Multi-model routing
yes
Stack signals
- Open weights
- MoE architecture
Shared model stack
Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.
- MiniMax M3+1 aliasMiniMax · 4 products
- MiniMax H3+1 aliasMiniMax · 3 products
- MiniMax M2.5+1 aliasMiniMax · 3 products
- MiniMax M2.7MiniMax · 3 products
- MiniMax Music 3.0MiniMax · 3 products
- MiniMax Speech 2.8MiniMax · 3 products
- Speech 2.8MiniMax · 3 products
- H3MiniMax · 2 products
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
Reported scale
Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.
No public usage figure on record for this product.
Also in Writing
All WritingHunyuan
TencentChina
16
Tencent's multimodal model family and assistant.
- Version
- Hunyuan-role-latest
- Cost
- Free trial up to 1 million tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward.
- Model
- Hunyuan-a13b
ChatGPT
OpenAI
11
General-purpose assistant
- Version
- GPT-6 Astra
- Cost
- Pricing not published in the provided documentation
- Model
- GPT Image
Kimi
Moonshot AIChina
10
Long-context assistant and agentic K-series models.
- Version
- Kimi K3
- Cost
- API access with pay-as-you-go pricing based on token consumption. File APIs are currently free.
- Model
- Kimi K2.6
Qwen Chat
AlibabaChina
10
Alibaba's assistant on the widely forked Qwen model family.
- Version
- Qwen3-2507
- Cost
- Free to chat on official website
- Model
- Qwen3
DeepSeek
DeepSeekChina
9
Open-weight reasoning models at a fraction of frontier pricing.
- Version
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
- Cost
- Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on token consumption. No flat monthly fee.
- Model
- DeepSeek-R1
Elsewhere on the same models
Products in other segments that name one of MiniMax's models in their stack.
Hailuo
MiniMaxChina
2
Fast, cheap video generation with strong character consistency.
- Version
- H3
- Cost
- from $4.99/mo
- Model
- H3
MiniMax Speech
MiniMaxChina
Multilingual TTS and voice cloning at low per-character rates.
- Version
- 2.8
- Cost
- from $30/mo
- Model
- MiniMax Music 3.0
Change history
- model
MiniMax added H3, M2.5, M2.7, M3 to its model stack
MiniMax Code, MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1, Music 3.0, Speech 2.8H3, M2.5, M2.7, M3, MiniMax Code, MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1, Music 3.0, Speech 2.8
source - capability
- version
- version
- capability
- capability
- capability
- capability
- version
- version
- version
- version
- capability
- capability
- model
MiniMax added Music 3.0, Speech 2.8 to its model stack
MiniMax Code, MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1MiniMax Code, MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1, Music 3.0, Speech 2.8
source - capability
- capability
- capability
New capabilities: text generation, code generation, video generation
34 tracked40 tracked · +text generation, code generation, video generation, speech generation, music generation, agent team
source - capability
New capabilities: Audio Generation, Coding Assistant
32 tracked34 tracked · +Audio Generation, Coding Assistant
source - capability
New capabilities: Agentic, Coding, Open-weight (H3)
29 tracked32 tracked · +Agentic, Coding, Open-weight (H3)
source - capability
- capability
- capability
- capability
- model
MiniMax added MiniMax Code to its model stack
MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1MiniMax Code, MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1
source - capability
- model
MiniMax added MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8 to its model stack
Hailuo 2.3, M2.5, M2.7, M3, Music 2.6, Speech 2.8Hailuo 2.3, M2.5, M2.7, M3, MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, Music 2.6, Speech 2.8
source - capability
New capabilities: Video Generation, Speech Generation, Music Generation
5 tracked8 tracked · +Video Generation, Speech Generation, Music Generation
source - capability
- capability
- version
- model
MiniMax added MiniMax M3, MiniMax H3, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M2.5 to its model stack
MiniMax-M2.1MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1
source - capability
- capability
- version
- model
MiniMax added M2.5, M2.7, M3 to its model stack
Hailuo 2.3, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, Music 2.6, Speech 2.8Hailuo 2.3, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, M2.5, M2.7, M3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, Music 2.6, Speech 2.8
source - capability
New capabilities: Text-to-Video, Text-to-Speech, Text-to-Music
5 tracked8 tracked · +Text-to-Video, Text-to-Speech, Text-to-Music
source - version
- model
MiniMax added Hailuo 2.3, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax M3, Music 2.6, Speech 2.8 to its model stack
MiniMax Hailuo 02, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax M2, MiniMax M2-Her, MiniMax M2.1, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax Speech 2.5, MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8Hailuo 2.3, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax Hailuo 02, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax M2, MiniMax M2-Her, MiniMax M2.1, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax Speech 2.5, MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8, Music 2.6, Speech 2.8
source - capability
New capabilities: LLM, Speech Generation, Code Generation
5 tracked8 tracked · +LLM, Speech Generation, Code Generation
source
MiniMax compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Writing.
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BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-minimax-chat,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {MiniMax — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/minimax-chat}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}