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MiniMax

MiniMax pay-as-you-go API platform. Video generation via Hailuo models (2.3 / 2.3 Fast / Hailuo-02), image generation via image-01, plus speech and LLM endpoints. Developer-facing alternative to the Hailuo consumer subscription.

Hugging Face

Inference Providers routes image and video generation through Fal, Replicate, WaveSpeed, HF Inference, Nscale, and Together on a unified OpenAI-compatible API. The Hub is the model source of truth; the Inference API is one of several execution backends.

Pricing model

Pay-per-use

Free tier

Yes

Access

APIWeb UI

API

Cheapest plan

$0.00/mo

Models offered

MiniMax Hailuo 02, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax Image-01, MiniMax Music 2.6 +4 more

FLUX.1 Dev, FLUX.1 Schnell, Google Veo 3.1, Ideogram 3.0, xAI Grok Imagine Image

Pros

Cons

Model availability

Every model offered by at least one selected tool, plus trending models (marked ) shown even when neither tool hosts them. A · means that tool does not host the model.

FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs

Seedream 4

ByteDance

Nano Banana 2

Google

Nano Banana Pro

Google

Midjourney v7

Midjourney

GPT Image 2

OpenAI

Recraft V3

Recraft

Recraft V4

Recraft

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability AI

Z-Image

FLUX.1 Dev

Black Forest Labs · 1K

0cr/gen

FLUX.1 Schnell

Black Forest Labs · 1K

0cr/gen

Ideogram 3.0

Ideogram · 1K

0cr/gen

MiniMax Image-01

MiniMax · 1K

$0.0035/gen

xAI Grok Imagine Image

xAI · 1K

0cr/gen

Veo 3.1

Google

Kling 3.0 Video Pro

Kuaishou

Kling 3.0 Video Standard

Kuaishou

Ray 2

Luma AI

Magnific Creative Video Upscaler

Magnific

Sora 2

OpenAI

Runway Gen-4

Runway

Grok Imagine Video

xAI

Google Veo 3.1

Google · 1080p

0cr/gen

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 480p

$0.0167/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0317/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0550/sec

Minimax Music

MiniMax · music

$0.03/gen

Minimax Music 2.5

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Music 2.6

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD

MiniMax · music

$0.10/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo

MiniMax · music

$0.06/gen

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May 20, 2026

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