MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
No published training cutoff
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
$0.15 in, $0.60 out per 1M tokens
MiniMax Speech 2.8 (HD / Turbo)
MiniMax’s current TTS: expressive multilingual voices, cloning and real-time streaming for agents, audiobooks and dubbing.
Model idspeech-2.8-hd
Price$100 per 1M characters, HD
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
70newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
3 ways to use MiniMax Speech 2.8 (HD / Turbo), with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax API (T2A HTTP / WebSocket / async) | speech-2.8-hd |
https://api.minimax.io |
platform.minimax.io |
| MiniMax API | speech-2.8-turbo |
https://api.minimax.io |
platform.minimax.io |
| Web app (MiniMax Audio) | minimax.io |
Pricing
| Per 1M characters, HD | $100 |
|---|---|
| Per 1M characters, Turbo | $60 |
As published: “USD per 1M characters (sync and async T2A). Voice clone 1.5 USD/voice, voice design 3 USD/voice”.
Source: platform.minimax.io, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Released
- 23 January 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Sound tags
Natural sound tags (non-verbal cues) in ultra-realistic HD speech.
40 languages, 7 emotions
40 languages plus specified dialects, 7 emotions; rapid voice cloning and text-described voice design.
Streaming and long-form modes
Sync HTTP, WebSocket and bidirectional streaming (pipe LLM tokens straight to speech), plus async jobs up to 1M characters.
Notes
speech-2.6 and speech-02 are legacy at the same prices. MiniMax also offers ASR (0.38 USD/hour). Music: music-3.0 API closed to new users from 2026-08-20; open weights MiniMax-Music3 on HF.
Sources: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/models-intro · https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo · https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/speech-t2a-http