Head to head · Video generate · October 2026 research run

Google Veo vs MiniMax Video API

Google Veo has a score of 60.8 (C) against MiniMax Video API's 60.3 (C). Both do video generate. The largest gap is security & auth, 40 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Google Veo	MiniMax Video API	Edge
Reliability	16%20	45	70	MiniMax Video API +25
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	71	96	MiniMax Video API +25
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	64	76	MiniMax Video API +12
Security & auth	14%17.5	78	38	Google Veo +40
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	20	20	even
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	77	47	Google Veo +30
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	80	58	Google Veo +22
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		60.8 · C	60.3 · C

Fact	Google Veo	MiniMax Video API
Kind	Model API	Model API
Vendor	Google	MiniMax
Hosted endpoint	`https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta`	`https://api.minimax.io`
Transports	HTTP	HTTP, stdio
Auth	API key	API key
Pricing	Pay per use	Pay per use
x402	no	no
Licence	Apache-2.0 (SDKs)	MiniMax H3 Community License (weights)
Tools exposed	none	7
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	yes	yes
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	2026-09-22	2026-08-21
Popularity	4k stars	9.4k stars, 334 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	2.5/5 (2)	4/5 (2)

Audio on every Veo 3.1 clip, up to 4K on Veo 3.1 and Fast. All three Veo 3.1 previews shut down on the Gemini API on 2026-10-22.

2K with stereo audio at $0.13 a second, 768P at $0.08. No statement found on whether API inputs train models, and the privacy policy needs a browser.

Move off veo-3.1-*-preview before 2026-10-22. Use gemini-omni-1.1-flash on the Gemini API or the GA Veo IDs on Vertex AI
Call predictLongRunning, then poll the operation name about every 10 seconds until done is true. Jobs take 11 seconds to 6 minutes
Download the video within 2 days. The server deletes it after that
Set durationSeconds to 8 for 1080p, 4K or reference images. Shorter clips aren't supported there
In the EU, UK, Switzerland and MENA image-to-video only accepts personGeneration set to allow_adult

Use POST /v2/video_generation for H3 and poll GET /v2/query/video_generation/{task_id}. Tasks stay queryable for 7 days
Set ratio for text-to-video. adaptive isn't allowed there
Pass callback_url to skip polling. Your endpoint must echo the challenge within 3 seconds
A 402 means the balance is empty and a 422 means moderation blocked the content. Don't retry either unchanged