MiniMax Pricing (2026)
MiniMax starts at $0.02 per month. MiniMax is a Shanghai AI company offering its own text, speech, video and music models through an API platform, plus MiniMax Code and other apps. Its new M3.1 Flash model targets agentic and coding work at $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens.
Plans listed by the maker
As published on the MiniMax listing. Amounts are shown as written; check the maker's site for taxes, regional pricing and current promotions.
| Starter plan | API pay-as-you-go - MiniMax-M3.1-Flash $0.15/1M input, $0.60/1M output, $0.015/1M cached input |
| Second plan | API pay-as-you-go - MiniMax-M3 $0.30/1M input, $1.20/1M output (up to 512k input; Priority tier 1.5x) |
| Third plan | Audio subscription - from $5/month (Starter, 100,000 audio points); video packages from $1,000 |
How it compares
Across the 27 AI Tools & Platforms tools on TechLogHub, 56% offer a free tier and the median published entry price is $0.10. MiniMax is below the category median. Directory-wide, 54% of tools have a free tier and the median entry plan is $12.
Medians come from the TechLogHub pricing report, recomputed daily.
What similar tools charge
Ranked by similarity to MiniMax (shared use cases, audience and stack), showing each tool's listed entry point.
| Tool | Free tier | Entry price | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | $0.10 | Mercury 3 - $0.20 input / $0.70 output per 1M tokens (launch: 50% off, $0.10 / $0.35); cached input 90% off · Mercury Voice - $0.20 input / $0.75 output per 1M tokens (launch-discount price shown on site) · Enterprise - contact sales - dedicated capacity, fine-tuning, private deployment, custom SLAs | |
| Jev | $0.04 | Usage-based - $42 per billion input tokens ($0.042 per million); output tokens free · Enterprise - contact sales | |
| Voxtral | $0.00 | Transcription - $0.004/min (Small Transcribe 3), $0.0035/min (Mini Transcribe 3) · Realtime transcription - $0.008/min (Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) · Text-to-speech - $13 per 1M characters (Mini TTS 3) | |
| fal | $0.00 | Model APIs - usage-based per output, e.g. $0.003/megapixel (FLUX.1 schnell), $0.15/image (Nano Banana Pro), $0.03-$0.14/sec for video models · Serverless & Compute - hourly GPUs, e.g. H100 $4.50/h (as low as $2.49), H200 $6.00/h, B200 $7.99/h, B300 $12.99/h · Enterprise - usage-based or reserved pricing, SOC 2, SSO, private deployments; contact sales | |
| Gemini Nano Banana | — | Paid | |
| Vellm | $4.49 | Credit packs from US$4.49; optional monthly plans; no subscription required; no free trial. |
MiniMax pricing FAQ
Quick answers about MiniMax's plans, free tier and billing
Does MiniMax have a free plan?
MiniMax does not list a free tier. The lowest published price is $0.02.
How much does MiniMax cost?
MiniMax starts at $0.02 per month. The maker lists these plans: API pay-as-you-go - MiniMax-M3.1-Flash $0.15/1M input, $0.60/1M output, $0.015/1M cached input, API pay-as-you-go - MiniMax-M3 $0.30/1M input, $1.20/1M output (up to 512k input; Priority tier 1.5x), Audio subscription - from $5/month (Starter, 100,000 audio points); video packages from $1,000.
How does MiniMax pricing compare with other AI Tools & Platforms tools?
Across the 27 AI Tools & Platforms tools on TechLogHub, 56% offer a free tier and the median published entry price is $0.10 per month. MiniMax is $0.02, below the category median.
How is MiniMax billed?
Based on the listed plans, MiniMax offers monthly subscription.
What are cheaper alternatives to MiniMax?
Voxtral (from $0.00), fal (from $0.00) are similar AI Tools & Platforms tools listed on TechLogHub with a lower or free entry point.
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