MiniMax pricing details and 26 free alternatives in AI / ML. Catalogue date July 2026.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. How we use this.
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a standing condition, so it does not lapse.
Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo, where it says: “A new-generation open general-purpose multimo” How we use this.
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io… MiniMax warrants caution — on 2026-08-20: MiniMax closed its paid Music Generation and Lyrics Generation APIs to new users on 2026-08-20, and says its free music models (Music-3.0-free, Music-2.6-free, music-cover-free) will be discontinued, with no date given. M2.7 and Hailuo prices are unchanged. Source: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo Monitor for further changes.
MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io. Its pricing pages list no free API allowance; one docs page mentions a free quota for new pay-as-you-go users but gives no amount. Text: MiniMax-M3 $0.30/$1.20 (per 1M tokens, inputs up to 512k, after a permanent 50% discount); MiniMax-M2.7 $0.30/$1.20 (per 1M tokens); MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed $0.60/$2.40 (per 1M tokens). MiniMax M2.5 and M2.7 models are unavailable to new users from 2026-10-19. They are retired on 2026-11-18, after which API requests will not work. For M Plan and Token Plan users, requests to these models are routed to MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Preview from 2026-10-19. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Preview is not available to pay-as-you-go users; MiniMax-M3 is the pay-as-you-go option. Speech: speech-2.8-turbo $60 and speech-2.8-hd $100 per 1M characters. Video: MiniMax-H3 $0.08 per second at 768P. Image: image-01 $0.0035 per image. Music and lyrics APIs closed to new users on 2026-08-20. Subscriptions: M Plan Go $22, Explore $55 and Build $132 a month, with the first month half price on monthly billing during the M Plan launch; annual billing charges 10 months for 12. The Token Plan no longer takes new purchases.
We read that on 2026-10-06 from https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo, and our check recorded: the page names MiniMax as "minimax" and states "$0.30" and "$1.20" and "$0.60" and "$2.40". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
How MiniMax compares against every one of the 26 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | not_a_free_offer |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Hugging Face | Free | caution |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | stable |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Hetzner Inference API | Free | stable |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
Left out of this list: Pinecone (shares no subtype with this product), Qdrant (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Kaggle (shares no subtype with this product), Roboflow (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Replicate (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Comet ML (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Google Colab (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), Tavily AI (shares no subtype with this product), paperspace (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AX (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Braintrust (shares no subtype with this product), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Langfuse (shares no subtype with this product), LangSmith (shares no subtype with this product), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), LangWatch (shares no subtype with this product), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), Exa (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google Vector Search 2.0 (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product), ElevenLabs (we have not classified this record), Stability AI (we have not classified this record), Daytona (shares no subtype with this product), Blaxel (shares no subtype with this product), Novita Sandbox (shares no subtype with this product), Runloop (shares no subtype with this product), Mem0 (shares no subtype with this product), Zep (shares no subtype with this product), Letta (we have not classified this record), Supermemory (shares no subtype with this product), Cognee (shares no subtype with this product), Serper (shares no subtype with this product), Linkup (shares no subtype with this product), Parallel (shares no subtype with this product), Jina AI (shares no subtype with this product), You.com (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in AI / ML, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=MiniMax
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=MiniMax
Look up MiniMax programmatically with the AgentDeals MCP server:
{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "MiniMax",
"limit": 5
}
}