ERNIE Bot
BaiduChina
15
Baidu's flagship assistant, now on open-weight ERNIE models.
- Version
- 5.0
- Cost
- Pay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens.
- Model
- DeepSeek-V3.1
MiniMax
MiniMax · #10 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 · 2026-11-07
Current version
M3.1 Flash
Entry cost
from $0.3/mo
Changes / 30d
9
The short answers · verified November 8, 2026
- What is the latest version of MiniMax?
- The current shipped version of MiniMax is M3.1 Flash, as of November 8, 2026.
- How much does MiniMax cost?
- MiniMax starts at $0.3 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of November 8, 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
- text
- audio
- image
- video
- music
- agent capabilities
- Speech & Music
- Coding Harness
- APIs
- Agents
- Text-to-Video
- Coding Mode
- Agentic Workflow
- Coding Assistance
- Design Assistants
- Design Assistance
- Language LLM
- Work Mode
- Agent-Driven Workflow
- All-in-One Multimodal Creation
- Design Assistant
- Agentic workflows
- Multimodal generation
- Speech generation
- API access
- Agentic workflow
- Image generation
- Audio generation
- 1M Context
- Multimodal Creation
- Design
- Multimodal Generation
- Design Agent
- Text generation
- Code assistance
- Text LLM
- Code
- Video Models
- Speech Models
- Music Models
- MiniMax Code
- MiniMax Design
- API Platform
- Language Model
- Video Model
- Speech Model
- Music Model
- Open-weight 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 M3.1 Flash
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 H3+1 aliasMiniMax · 6 products
- MiniMax M3+1 aliasMiniMax · 4 products
- MiniMax Music 3.0MiniMax · 4 products
- MiniMax M2.5+1 aliasMiniMax · 3 products
- MiniMax M2.7MiniMax · 3 products
- MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax · 3 products
- MiniMax Speech 2.8MiniMax · 3 products
- Speech 2.8MiniMax · 3 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.
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- Version
- Jasper Platform
- Cost
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- Model
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Claude
Anthropic
12
Assistant for long-form and analysis
- Version
- 5.5
- Cost
- Free tier · from $17/mo
- Model
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Hunyuan
TencentChina
12
Tencent's multimodal model family and assistant.
- Version
- Hunyuan
- Cost
- Free trial quota of 1M tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward.
- Model
- Hunyuan-a13b
DeepSeek
DeepSeekChina
11
Open-weight reasoning models at a fraction of frontier pricing.
- Version
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
- Cost
- Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.
- Model
- deepseek-flash
Grok
xAI
11
Frontier assistant with real-time X data and heavy reasoning modes.
- Version
- Grok 4.7
- Cost
- from $2/mo
- Model
- grok-4.5
Elsewhere on the same models
Products in other segments that name one of MiniMax's models in their stack.
Hailuo
MiniMaxChina
5
Fast, cheap video generation with strong character consistency.
- Version
- H3
- Cost
- from $4.99/mo
- Model
- H3
MiniMax Speech
MiniMaxChina
9
Multilingual TTS and voice cloning at low per-character rates.
- Version
- 2.8
- Cost
- from $30/mo
- Model
- MiniMax Music 3.0
Change history
- capability
- version
- version
- capability
New capabilities: Language Model, Video Model, Speech Model
93 tracked97 tracked · +Language Model, Video Model, Speech Model, Music Model
source - capability
- capability
New capabilities: Video Models, Speech Models, Music Models
87 tracked92 tracked · +Video Models, Speech Models, Music Models, MiniMax Code, MiniMax Design
source - capability
- capability
New capabilities: Text generation, Code assistance
83 tracked85 tracked · +Text generation, Code assistance
source - capability
- capability
- capability
- version
- model
MiniMax added MiniMax M3.1 Flash to its model stack
H3, 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 2.8H3, M2.5, M2.7, M3, MiniMax Code, MiniMax H3, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax-M2.1, Music 3.0, Speech 2.8
source - capability
- version
- capability
New capabilities: Agentic workflow, Image generation, Audio generation
75 tracked78 tracked · +Agentic workflow, Image generation, Audio generation
source - version
- capability
New capabilities: Agentic workflows, Multimodal generation, Speech generation
71 tracked75 tracked · +Agentic workflows, Multimodal generation, Speech generation, API access
source - capability
- capability
- capability
New capabilities: Coding Assistance, Design Assistants
63 tracked65 tracked · +Coding Assistance, Design Assistants
source - capability
- capability
- capability
New capabilities: Speech & Music, Coding Harness
56 tracked58 tracked · +Speech & Music, Coding Harness
source - version
- version
- capability
New capabilities: text, audio, image
50 tracked56 tracked · +text, audio, image, video, music, agent capabilities
source - 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
MiniMax compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Writing.
How to cite this page
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APA
Tomorrow. (2026). MiniMax — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/minimax-chat
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: 2026-11-08}
}