Deepgram
Deepgram
11
Real-time speech to text
- Version
- Nova-3
- Cost
- Free tier · from $4,000/min
- Model
- Aura-1
MiniMax Speech
MiniMax · #2 most active of 15 in Audio
MiniMax's speech stack covers 30+ languages with fast cloning from short samples.
100
Trust score · Verified
2 data points checked · 2026-11-04
Current version
2.8
Entry cost
from $30/mo
Changes / 30d
9
The short answers · verified November 8, 2026
- What is the latest version of MiniMax Speech?
- The current shipped version of MiniMax Speech is 2.8, as of November 8, 2026.
- How much does MiniMax Speech cost?
- MiniMax Speech starts at $30 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of November 8, 2026.
- What AI model does MiniMax Speech use?
- MiniMax Speech runs primarily on MiniMax Music 3.0.
Source: MiniMax — www.minimax.io · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- Voice cloning
- 30+ languages
- Emotion control
- Streaming
- Speech Generation
- Audio Generation
- API
- speech generation
- audio generation
- Speech Synthesis
- Speech generation
- Audio generation
- API Token Plan
- Audio
- music generation
- text-to-speech
- voice-generation
- Text-to-Speech
- Speech
- audio
- api
- speech synthesis
- text to speech
- speech
- Voice Synthesis
- voice generation
- Voice Generation
- speech-generation
- audio-generation
- Multimodal
- Voices
- Text-to-speech
- Speech synthesis
- Voice generation
- Open-Weights
- Voice Cloning
Pricing
Free
Free
API per 1M chars
$30
Entry price over time
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
MiniMax Music 3.0
MiniMax
- disclosed
MiniMax Speech 2.8
MiniMax
- disclosed
Speech 2.8
MiniMax
Context window
n/a
Public API
yes
Multi-model routing
yes
Stack signals
- Streaming API
- Voice library
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 Music 3.0MiniMax · 4 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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- Model
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Change history
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New capabilities: Text-to-speech, Speech synthesis, Voice generation
31 tracked34 tracked · +Text-to-speech, Speech synthesis, Voice generation
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New capabilities: speech-generation, audio-generation
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New capabilities: text-to-speech, voice-generation
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source - model
QA auto-correction: model stack updated to MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax Music 3.0 after a unanimous jury read of the source page
MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8, Music 3.0, Speech 2.8MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax Music 3.0
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MiniMax Speech added MiniMax Speech 2.8 to its model stack
MiniMax Speech 2.6MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8
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Emotion control exposed in the speech API
Voice cloning, 30+ languagesVoice cloning, 30+ languages, Emotion control
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MiniMax Speech added Speech 2.8 to its model stack
MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8, Speech 2.8
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MiniMax Speech added Music 3.0 to its model stack
MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8, Speech 2.8MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8, Music 3.0, Speech 2.8
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MiniMax Speech added Speech 2.8 to its model stack
MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8MiniMax Music 3.0, MiniMax Speech 2.8, Speech 2.8
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MiniMax Speech compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Audio.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/minimax-speech
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). MiniMax Speech — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/minimax-speech
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-minimax-speech,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {MiniMax Speech — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/minimax-speech}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}