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MiniMax
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Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
4.6M visits/mo
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Chat01.ai
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A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.
103K visits/mo
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MiniMax M2.7
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MiniMax's general-purpose autonomous AI agent that plans and completes complex multi-step tasks from a single prompt.
1.1M visits/mo
Pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Free: $0 (2 credits/day)
Starter: $9.99/mo (30 credits/day)
Basic: $19.99/mo (100 credits/day)
Pro: $39.99/mo (300 credits/day)
Credit packs: $9.99 / $19.99 / $79.99
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
- ✦Hailuo AI video generation
- ✦Speech and music generation models
- ✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
- ✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
- ✦Open API and Token Plan for developers
- ✦Access to premium OpenAI models
- ✦Daily free credits
- ✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
- ✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
- ✦Invite-based bonus credits
- ✦Autonomous multi-step task execution
- ✦Natural-language task delegation
- ✦Powered by MiniMax frontier models
- ✦Handles research, building and content tasks
Use cases
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
- →Solve complex reasoning problems
- →Occasional AI use on free daily credits
- →Delegating complex tasks to an AI agent
- →Automating research and analysis
- →Producing reports and deliverables
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