MiniMax Audio pricing
What MiniMax charges for speech, cloning, voice design and music
MiniMax bills audio pay-as-you-go rather than per seat, so what you spend tracks the characters you render and the voices you create - not how many people use the account. The rates below are MiniMax's published list prices, last checked September 2026. They vary by account route and change without notice, so confirm them on MiniMax's own pricing page before you budget against them.
MiniMax Audio pricing
MiniMax bills audio pay-as-you-go. Figures below are MiniMax's published list rates, last checked September 2026 - confirm them on MiniMax's own pricing page before you budget.
What the free tier covers
MiniMax offers a free allowance - reported as 10,000 credits per month, sometimes with additional daily time-limited credits - which is enough to evaluate voices and test an integration, not to run production volume. Free allowances are the fastest-moving number on this page; check the balance in your own account rather than trusting any figure you read elsewhere, including this one.
Three things that decide your real bill
First, the model tier: speech-2.8-turbo costs 40% less per character than speech-2.8-hd, so the tier you pick matters more than any other single choice. Second, cloning is charged once per voice created, not per generation - iterating on a clone is what costs money, using it is not. Third, all four capabilities draw on one balance, so a music job can consume the credits your speech traffic needs; set the spend alert at the account level.
FAQs
MiniMax Audio questions, answered
The synchronous text-to-audio endpoint returns mp3, wav or flac. Streaming requests return mp3 only. Music generation outputs mp3, wav or pcm, at sample rates up to 44.1 kHz and bitrates up to 256 kbps.
Use speech-2.8-hd when fidelity matters most and the audio is rendered once - audiobooks, narration, ads. Use speech-2.8-turbo when latency matters more than the last few percent of quality, such as voice agents and live assistants. Speech 2.6 remains available when you need output consistent with earlier renders.
MiniMax offers a free tier - reported as 10,000 credits per month, sometimes with additional daily time-limited credits - covering basic features. Free allowances change often, so treat any figure you read as indicative and check your account's current balance on MiniMax's site.
Commercial rights depend on your MiniMax plan and on MiniMax's terms of service, which are the only authoritative source - read them before shipping. Separately, voice cloning carries its own obligation: do not clone a real person's voice without that person's clear, documented consent for the intended use.
Roughly ten seconds is enough for MiniMax's rapid voice cloning. The upload must be mp3, m4a or wav, between 10 seconds and 5 minutes long, and no larger than 20 MB. Cleaner source audio produces a noticeably better clone than a longer noisy one.
MiniMax Audio runs in the browser at minimax.io and through the public API; there is no official desktop application to download. Generated files are downloaded individually as mp3, wav or flac. Treat any third-party 'MiniMax Audio installer' as untrusted.
MiniMax's published pay-as-you-go list rates are $60 per million characters for speech-2.8-turbo and $100 per million characters for speech-2.8-hd, with rapid voice cloning at $1.50 per voice and voice design at $3.00 per voice. These were last checked in September 2026; prices vary by account route, so confirm on MiniMax's pricing page.
The usual comparison set is ElevenLabs, OpenAI's TTS, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, Azure AI Speech and PlayHT. MiniMax competes mainly on price per character and on sound-tag control; the others differ on voice library size, language coverage, latency and enterprise contracting. Run your own script through two or three before committing.