MiniMax (Hailuo AI)
Listed at https://platform.minimaxi.com
Overall Rank #17 ⭐ Consider
✅ Direct access in China | 🇨🇳 China Direct
💰 Token Pricing
| Type | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Input | MiniMax-01 Lightning: ¥0.2/M tokens, Turbo: ¥0.8/M, Pro: ¥2/M, M3: ¥1.5/M | per million tokens |
| Output | MiniMax-01 Lightning: ¥0.2/M tokens, Turbo: ¥0.8/M, Pro: ¥2/M, M3: ¥1.5/M | per million tokens |
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🤖 Supported Models (10)
MiniMax-01 (Lightning / Turbo / Pro)MiniMax-Text-01MiniMax-VL-01 (视觉语言)MiniMax-M2.5 / M3T2I-01 (文生图)Speech-01 (语音合成)Music-01 (音乐生成)
✨ Pros
- ✓MiniMax-01 series: Lightning/Turbo/Pro tiers, ¥0.2-2/M across the widest price range
- ✓MiniMax-M3: 2026 flagship MoE model with strong bilingual capability, coding near GPT-5 level
- ✓Full multimodal: text + vision (VL-01) + TTS + music gen + image gen
- ✓Hailuo AI consumer brand widely recognized, growing API ecosystem
- ✓Direct access from China, no proxy needed
- ✓From ¥0.2/M tokens, extremely competitive pricing
⚠️ Cons
- ×International recognition behind DeepSeek/Qwen
- ×English API documentation less comprehensive
- ×Some premium features (M3) require enterprise application
- ×Fast model iteration pace, version management challenging
- ×No native Function Calling support
🎯 Best For
China-based developers; multimodal applications (text+image+voice+music); cost-priority scenarios