Tool · Voice and speech, Music and sound

MiniMax Audio

MiniMax's text-to-speech service: a web app and paid API that read text aloud in realistic voices, copy a voice from a 10-second sample, or design a new voice from a description. Its music tools are closing to new API customers.

Go to MiniMax Audio’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
Speech models are API-only; the docs do list a self-host guide for Music 3.
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Licence: MiniMax API Platform Terms of Service (The maker's own terms)
Terms page text is rendered by script and could not be read.
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Can I sell what I make?: The terms don't say clearly
Terms not readable (script-rendered); pricing pages don't state commercial rights.
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Cost: No free plan.
Plans below.
How you use it: In your browser, Maker's own API
Web app at minimax.io/audio (content not readable); API documented at platform.minimax.io.
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Skill needed: No setup
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Made by: MiniMax
Country not stated on pages we could read; API terms are rendered by script.
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Status: Changing: features or terms in flux
Whether music generation stays in the web app was not readable.
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What you can make with it

A voice or speech, read my text aloud (main use)
A voice or speech, a copy of my own voice
A voice or speech, a brand-new voice from a description
Music and sound, a full song with vocals
A voice or speech, text from a recording

text to audioaudio to audioaudio to text

From the API docs index: TTS, voice clone, voice design, music and lyrics generation, speech-to-text. Music is closing to new API users.

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Plans and prices

Plan	Price	Includes
Starter	$5 a month	100,000 credits a month
Standard	$30 a month
Pro	$99 a month
Scale	$249 a month
Business	$999 a month	20,000,000 credits a month
Starter (yearly)	$48 a year, billed yearly
Standard (yearly)	$288 a year, billed yearly
Pro (yearly)	$950 a year, billed yearly
Scale (yearly)	$2390 a year, billed yearly
Business (yearly)	$9590 a year, billed yearly

Some plans are not listed here; see the source for the full list.

API audio subscription prices; 3-month options (10% off) also listed. Web-app (minimax.io/audio) plans are rendered by script and not readable. Pay-as-you-go rates from pricing-paygo.md.

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Rights and safety

Real faces and voices: Copies a real voice (rapid voice clone (10 s to 5 min sample)), no consent step
Clone guide describes no consent or verification step; the terms (unreadable) may require permission.
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Models it uses (not yet listed on Plainly)

MiniMax Speech 2.8, MiniMax Speech 2.6, MiniMax Music 2.0, MiniMax Music 3.0

Other options for “A voice or speech, read my text aloud”

Adobe Firefly, Akool, Amazon Polly, Arcads, Async (formerly Podcastle), Azure AI Speech, Bark, CAMB.AI, Cartesia, Chatterbox, Clipchamp, Deepgram, DeeVid AI, Descript, Dia, Dubverse, Eleven v3, ElevenLabs, F5-TTS, fal, Filmora, Fish Audio, FlexClip, Fliki

About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.