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      "vendor": "BlockRun, Inc.",
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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Model and API gateway with an OpenAI-compatible interface, MCP support and per-request stablecoin payments through x402.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blockrun-ai",
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          "registry": "npm",
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      "authNotes": "Either an API key backed by prepaid card credit (user.blockrun.ai) or a non-custodial wallet signing x402 USDC payments (Base mainnet at https://blockrun.ai/api, Solana at https://sol.blockrun.ai/api, testnets available).",
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      "pricingNotes": "Per-token LLM pricing by model ($0.20-$30 per 1M input, $0.40-$180 per 1M output per SDK README; site examples $10/$50 for Claude Fable 5.1, $4/$20 for GPT-5.6 Sol per 1M tokens); per-token chat models billed at zero platform margin since 2026-08-08, plus a flat $0.001 network fee per wallet call on Base since 2026-07-29 (the account rail and the Solana gateway charge no fee); images $0.015-$0.10; web search $0.011/search; some data endpoints $0.002-$0.0085 per call; six or seven free models (the vendor's repository says 6, its llms.txt names 7, after four NVIDIA free models retired on 2026-08-30); failed calls (400, 402, 429, 5xx) aren't charged; x402 in USDC on Base or Solana (https://blockrun.ai/docs/resources/changelog; https://blockrun.ai/docs/api-reference/errors; https://github.com/BlockRunAI/blockrun-mcp).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
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        "level": "yes",
        "evidence": "Core business model: x402 v2 micropayments in USDC (ERC-20 on Base mainnet, SPL on Solana) per request; the '~$0.002/call' figure could NOT be verified for LLM inference, which is per-token; $0.002 appears only for trading-market/stock data endpoints (https://github.com/BlockRunAI/blockrun-llm; https://github.com/BlockRunAI/awesome-blockrun)",
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        "verdict": "x402 v2 on its own gateway, USDC on Base and Solana, with Base Sepolia for testing. The status page shows live checks only and keeps no incident history.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that must start and pay with no human sign-up, and builders testing x402 against a real inference gateway.",
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          "x402 v2 on its own gateway, USDC on Base and Solana, with Base Sepolia for testing",
          "Rate limits and 429 headers published, and 400, 402, 429 and 5xx responses aren't charged",
          "Privacy policy says prompts aren't stored past the request and aren't used for training, with request metadata kept 30 days",
          "The MCP server marks every one of its 19 tools with readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, and trades need `confirm:true`",
          "Dated gateway changelog with entries most weeks, last on 2026-09-29"
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          "The status page shows live checks only and keeps no incident history",
          "The terms say 'We do not commit to any particular uptime', and there's no SLA",
          "Models are removed on the day, with no notice period, and the terms let providers withdraw a model at any time",
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          "The wallet key controls the whole balance and sits in a local file or environment variable"
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          "Fund a dedicated wallet with a small USDC balance. The balance is the spending cap",
          "Use `blockrun_wallet` delegate with `agent_limit` before handing a sub-agent the server",
          "On a 429, wait `Retry-After` and read `X-RateLimit-Source` to fail over to the same tier on another provider",
          "Call `blockrun_models` before hard-coding a model name, since models are removed without notice",
          "Use `mode:\"free\"` for drafts and classification, paid models for generation"
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        "provenanceScore": 80
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                "BLOCKRUN_WALLET_KEY": "${BLOCKRUN_WALLET_KEY}"
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        "domainRegistered": "2025-10-06",
        "domainNote": "The terms (updated 2026-09-02) name BlockRun, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco, while the privacy policy footer says BlockRun Labs, Inc. No founders or street address are published. The domain is under a year old. The status page is self-hosted and keeps no incident history.",
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      "name": "MiniMax API",
      "vendor": "MiniMax",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.minimax.io",
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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "MiniMax's API for its M-series text models, M3.1 Flash and M3, in the Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses formats, with 1M-token context and automatic prompt caching.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md",
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      "license": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence",
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.minimax.io",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Bearer key from platform.minimax.io, charged to a prepaid balance. M Plan subscribers get a separate Subscription Key that draws on the plan's usage windows, and the two kinds of key can't be swapped. Mainland China accounts use api.minimaxi.com with a separate key. MiniMax says it may disable a key that leaks publicly.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid balance, pay as you go. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens and $0.015 per million cache-read tokens at any input length. MiniMax-M3 is $0.30 in and $1.20 out up to 512K input tokens and $0.60 and $2.40 above, with cache reads at $0.06 and $0.12, and a Priority tier at 1.5 times that M3.1 Flash doesn't take. Caching is automatic. The web_search server tool (beta) is $0.01 a request. M Plan subscriptions for coding tools are Go $22, Explore $55 and Build $132 a month, and annual billing pays for 10 months (https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview, https://platform.minimax.io/docs/m-plan/monthly-offer, checked 19 October 2026).",
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        "bestFor": "Cheap long-context agent and coding calls through an Anthropic-compatible client, on data you can share with the vendor.",
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          "Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses formats, each with an OpenAPI 3.1 file",
          "1M-token context and up to 524,288 output tokens on M3.1 Flash and M3",
          "Automatic prompt caching and a token-count endpoint",
          "MiniMax-M3 weights on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to develop and improve its services, and no opt-out was found",
          "No free tier, SLA, batch API, JSON Schema output mode or security.txt",
          "23 LLM error incidents on the status page from 13 to 19 October 2026, each under 45 minutes",
          "M2.5 and M2.7 retire on 18 November 2026, 30 days after new users lost them, and plan requests to them already go to M3.1 Flash",
          "The model list calls M2.5 and M2.7 retired while the notice on the same page gives 18 November 2026"
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        "agentNotes": [
          "Use the Anthropic-format base URL `https://api.minimax.io/anthropic` for tool calls. The OpenAI-format schema has no `tool_choice` or `response_format`",
          "Set `output_config.effort` (or `reasoning_effort`) below `max` for routine calls. M3.1 Flash defaults to max, can't turn thinking off, and counts thinking against `max_tokens`",
          "Don't rely on `stop_sequences` or `top_k`. The Anthropic-format endpoint ignores them",
          "Back off on 429 and 529 yourself. No Retry-After header is documented",
          "Use a pay-as-you-go key for production. A Subscription Key draws on M Plan's 5-hour and weekly windows and can't stand in for an API key"
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        "provenanceScore": 80
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.minimax.io/anthropic/v1/messages \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MINIMAX_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\":\"MiniMax-M3.1-Flash\",\"output_config\":{\"effort\":\"low\"},\"max_tokens\":4096,\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'"
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        {
          "item": "M Plan Explore",
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          "item": "M Plan Build",
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        "terms": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.minimax.io",
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          "RDAP for minimax.io gives a registration date of 2021-03-27 and a transfer on 2025-01-31, as recorded on the MiniMax Video API listing.",
          "platform.minimax.io and api.minimax.io answer 404 for /.well-known/security.txt, and www.minimax.io redirects it to the home page.",
          "The API release notes page has no entry after 28 October 2025. Model releases are dated on a separate page, which has the 19 October 2026 entry."
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 436 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### BlockRun.AI (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that must start and pay with no human sign-up, and builders testing x402 against a real inference gateway.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 100 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The status page shows live checks only and keeps no incident history\n\n### MiniMax API (C)\n\nGood for: Cheap long-context agent and coding calls through an Anthropic-compatible client, on data you can share with the vendor.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 55\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to develop and improve its services, and no opt-out was found\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | BlockRun.AI | MiniMax API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 75 | MiniMax API +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 82 | MiniMax API +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 59 | BlockRun.AI +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 30 | BlockRun.AI +40 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 100 | 20 | BlockRun.AI +80 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 45 | BlockRun.AI +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 64 | BlockRun.AI +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **72.4 · BB** | **55.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | BlockRun.AI | MiniMax API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | Model API |\n| Vendor | BlockRun, Inc. | MiniMax |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.minimax.io` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | yes | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence |\n| Tools exposed | 19 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-19 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-02 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 5 stars, 679 PyPI/wk | 493 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**BlockRun.AI.** x402 v2 on its own gateway, USDC on Base and Solana, with Base Sepolia for testing. The status page shows live checks only and keeps no incident history.\n\n**MiniMax API.** M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens, behind Anthropic and OpenAI request formats with OpenAPI files and 1M-token context. The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to improve its services with no opt-out found, and the status page logged 23 short LLM incidents in the week to 19 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### BlockRun.AI\n\n1. Fund a dedicated wallet with a small USDC balance. The balance is the spending cap\n2. Use `blockrun_wallet` delegate with `agent_limit` before handing a sub-agent the server\n3. On a 429, wait `Retry-After` and read `X-RateLimit-Source` to fail over to the same tier on another provider\n4. Call `blockrun_models` before hard-coding a model name, since models are removed without notice\n5. Use `mode:\"free\"` for drafts and classification, paid models for generation\n\n### MiniMax API\n\n1. Use the Anthropic-format base URL `https://api.minimax.io/anthropic` for tool calls. The OpenAI-format schema has no `tool_choice` or `response_format`\n2. Set `output_config.effort` (or `reasoning_effort`) below `max` for routine calls. M3.1 Flash defaults to max, can't turn thinking off, and counts thinking against `max_tokens`\n3. Don't rely on `stop_sequences` or `top_k`. The Anthropic-format endpoint ignores them\n4. Back off on 429 and 529 yourself. No Retry-After header is documented\n5. Use a pay-as-you-go key for production. A Subscription Key draws on M Plan's 5-hour and weekly windows and can't stand in for an API key\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, BlockRun.AI or MiniMax API?\n\nBlockRun.AI scores 72.4 (BB) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability and schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Do BlockRun.AI and MiniMax API need an API key?\n\nBlockRun.AI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. MiniMax API needs an API key. An agent can also pay BlockRun.AI per call over x402, with no account.\n\n### Can an agent call BlockRun.AI and MiniMax API without installing anything?\n\nBlockRun.AI runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-minimax-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-minimax-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"blockrun-ai\", \"b\": \"minimax-api\"}`. 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