MiniMax
Shanghai lab shipping the M-series text models alongside its Hailuo video and speech products.
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MiniMax vs Hunyuan
MiniMax (MiniMax) and Hunyuan (Tencent) both sit in Writing. Hunyuan is the cheaper entry point at Free trial quota of 1M tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward.. Hunyuan shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (12 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | MiniMax MiniMax | Hunyuan Tencent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | M3.1 Flash | Hunyuan |
| Entry cost | from $0.3/mo | Free trial quota of 1M tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward. |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · API input /M $0.3 · API output /M $1.2 | Free Trial Package free |
| Model stack | H3 · 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 | Hunyuan-a13b · Hunyuan-embedding · Hunyuan-role-latest · Hunyuan-t1-vision · Hunyuan-T2 · Hunyuan-translation · Hunyuan-translation-lite · Hunyuan-turbos-vision · Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video · Hunyuan3D · HunyuanVideo · Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct |
| Context window | 1000000 | 256K tokens |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 9 | 12 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Interleaved thinking, Tool calling, Open weights, Long context, Text Generation, Code Generation, Video Generation, Speech Generation | Image generation, Video generation, 3D asset generation, WeChat integration, Text Generation, Roleplay, Translation, Multimodal Vision |
Hunyuan
Hunyuan spans text, image, video and 3D generation, with several components open-sourced.
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