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# MiniMax Music 3.0

MiniMax, MiniMax Music family. Status: current. Type: music generation. Released: 2026-07-16.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax API (existing paying users only since 2026-08-20) | `music-3.0` |  | https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/music-generation |
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3 |
| GitHub |  |  | https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-Music3 |
| Web app (MiniMax Audio) |  |  | https://www.minimax.io/audio |

## Pricing

- Per song: $0.15
- Unit as published: USD per generation of up to 5 minutes (music-3.0 and music-2.6 API). Paid music APIs closed to NEW users from 2026-08-20; existing paying users keep access.
- Source: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text
- Output: audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: MiniMax-Music3 Community License (commercial use allowed with 'MiniMax-Music3' shown in the UI; separate authorization above US$20M annual revenue)

## Where it stands

- Newer music generation models in the registry since its release: 4:
  - Eleven Music v2.5 (2026-09-11) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-music-v2-5/
  - Suno v6 (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini) (2026-09-09) https://postcutoff.com/m/suno-v6/
  - YuE2-3B (2026-09-09) https://postcutoff.com/m/yue2/
  - Lyria 3.5 (2026-07-29) https://postcutoff.com/m/lyria-3-5/
- Weights are public. Licence: MiniMax-Music3 Community License. See the licence for commercial terms.

## What stands out

- Open-weights full songs up to ~5 minutes in one pass: Composes, arranges, performs and produces a complete song (vocals + arrangement) up to about five minutes from lyrics with section tags and a structured caption; 32 kHz 16-bit stereo WAV. Source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model
- Hierarchical Global/Local LLM with continuous hidden-state synthesis: 8B Global LLM (initialized from Qwen3.5-8B) for long-range structure + 0.6B Local LLM for frame-level acoustics, rendered by a 2.4B flow-matching module and 123M Flow-VAE instead of discrete token decoding. Source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model
- Consumer-GPU inference: 24 GB+ VRAM recommended; runs on 8 GB with CPU offloading; diffusers modular pipeline and ComfyUI support (Comfy-Org/MiniMax-Music-3). Source: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3

## Notes

music-3.0 shipped on the MiniMax API on 2026-07-16 (release notes); open weights published 2026-08-13. Earlier API models: music-2.6 (Apr 2026, covers), music-cover, music-2.5 (Jan 2026), music-2.0 (legacy). On 2026-08-20 MiniMax stopped offering the paid Music and Lyrics Generation APIs to new users and points them to MiniMax Audio or the open model. Demonstrated with English and Mandarin lyrics; no third-party benchmark vs Suno found.

MiniMax's flagship music model, now the strongest-known open-weights song generator from a major lab. Run locally from Hugging Face (`MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3`) or use the MiniMax Audio web app.

Sources: [blog](https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model), [HF model card](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3), [license](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3/blob/main/LICENSE), [models intro](https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/models-intro), [release notes](https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models), [pricing](https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo).

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/minimax-music-3/