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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium
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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LLM Gateway
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
76K visits/mo
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HEROZ
✓ verifiedPaid
A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.
1.9M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Dialogue with GLM large model
- ✦AI search
- ✦AI drawing
- ✦AI reading
- ✦AI-generated video (沉思清影-AI生视频)
- ✦AI-generated PPT
- ✦Data analysis tools
- ✦Code assistance (代码速写)
- ✦Intelligent agents
- ✦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
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
- ✦Access to multiple AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Runway, etc.)
- ✦AI Studio for creating customized AIs
- ✦Team Board for sharing AIs with departments
- ✦Corporate AI Copilots for increased productivity
- ✦AI University for AI training
- ✦App Integration
- ✦Knowledge base
- ✦Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
- ✦HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
- ✦BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
- ✦BLOOMWORKS product
- ✦Industry AI deployment case studies
Use cases
- →Engaging in conversations with an AI model
- →Generating images and videos using AI
- →Creating presentations with AI assistance
- →Analyzing data with AI tools
- →Assisting with code development
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
- →AI for content creators (podcast creation)
- →IA for Agencies (marketing campaigns)
- →AI for Sales (meeting transcription and analysis)
- →AI for Customer Service (satisfaction analysis)
- →Deploying generative AI in enterprises
- →Applying ML to industry-specific problems
- →AI-driven business transformation (DX)
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