MiniMax's current flagship TTS model (January 2026): 40 languages, seven emotions, voice cloning and inline sound tags such as (laughs), (sighs) and (breath) that add natural fillers and breathing.
$85.00 / 1M characters
16 models
The speed-focused tier of MiniMax's current Speech 2.8 generation (January 2026), with the same 40 languages and interjection sound tags as 2.8 HD at lower latency and price.
$51.00 / 1M characters
Speech 2.8 HD, MiniMax's newest voice model, used for asynchronous long-text jobs; it keeps the interjection tags that only the 2.8 models support and returns audio with sentence-level subtitles once the task finishes.
$85.00 / 1M characters
Asynchronous long-text synthesis on Speech 2.8 Turbo, pairing the newest generation's sound tags with the batch job API: up to 1M characters per task via file upload, with download links valid for nine hours.
$51.00 / 1M characters
MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD (October 2025), built for voice agents with a claimed sub-250 ms end-to-end latency, 40 languages and extra 'fluent' and 'whisper' emotions; MiniMax now lists it as legacy behind Speech 2.8 (January 2026).
$85.00 / 1M characters
Speech 2.6 Turbo (October 2025), the value tier of MiniMax's agent-oriented 2.6 generation, covering 40 languages at lower cost and latency than 2.6 HD; Speech 2.8 Turbo has replaced it as the current turbo model.
$51.00 / 1M characters
Long-form asynchronous rendering with Speech 2.6 HD, the October 2025 model that added 'fluent' and 'whisper' emotions; text goes in as a task (up to 50,000 characters, or 1M from a file) and audio is fetched later by file ID.
$85.00 / 1M characters
Speech 2.6 Turbo submitted through MiniMax's async T2A endpoint, a cheaper route for long narration where latency doesn't matter; output arrives as downloadable audio plus subtitle and metadata files.
$51.00 / 1M characters
MiniMax's second-generation HD TTS model (April 2025), focused on voice-clone similarity and audio quality across 24 languages with seven emotions; MiniMax now lists it as legacy behind Speech-2.6 and the current Speech-2.8.
$85.00 / 1M characters
The faster, cheaper sibling of Speech-02 HD from April 2025, tuned for rhythm, stability and low latency across 24 languages; superseded by Speech-2.6 Turbo and the current Speech-2.8 Turbo.
$51.00 / 1M characters
Speech-02 HD run through MiniMax's asynchronous long-text API: submit up to 50,000 characters inline or 1M via an uploaded file, then download the audio with sentence-level subtitles (links expire after nine hours).
$85.00 / 1M characters
Asynchronous batch interface for Speech-02 Turbo, aimed at audiobook-length text: tasks accept up to 1M characters from a txt or zip file and return audio, subtitle and metadata files rather than a stream.
$51.00 / 1M characters
MiniMax's text-to-image model (February 2025), with eight preset aspect ratios from 21:9 to 9:16, custom sizes up to 2048 px, up to nine images per request and prompts of up to 1,500 characters.
$0.003 / image
MiniMax's first-generation HD text-to-speech model (January 2025), launched with 17 languages, 300+ preset voices and voice cloning from about 10 seconds of audio; Speech-02, 2.6 and the current 2.8 have since superseded it.
$85.00 / 1M characters
MiniMax's speech-to-text model, covering 20 languages with automatic detection and Chinese-English code-switching; the API takes up to 500 seconds or 50 MB per request and offers SSE streaming, segment timestamps, diarization and SRT/VTT output.
$0.0054 / minute
Lower-latency, lower-cost turbo tier of MiniMax's first-generation Speech-01 TTS; it lacks the 2.6 and 2.8 models' wider language list and sound tags and is superseded by Speech-2.8 Turbo.
$51.00 / 1M characters
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