MiniMax

🇨🇳 China 📖 Open Source ✅ Free

MiniMax is a Chinese AI company known for TTS and ultra-long context. Latest M2.7 (230B params) achieves or sets new SOTA in coding, tool-use, search, and office scenarios. Hailuo AI is free to use, API credits on signup, industry-leading TTS quality.

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Daily Limit: No explicit limit

Model	Context	Limit	Notes
MiniMax-M2.7	`1000k`	`Fair use`	230B params, SOTA in coding/tool-use/search/office, 1M context
MiniMax-01	`1000k`	`Fair use`	Million-token context, free to use

🔑 Free API

Free Credits: ¥15

Rate Limit: Varies

¥15 free credits on signup. M2.7 is current SOTA for coding/tool-use. TTS API also has free tier.

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