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      "vendor": "Meta",
      "vendorUrl": "https://dev.meta.ai",
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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Meta Model API is Meta's pay-as-you-go API for its hosted Muse models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, through OpenAI-style Responses and Chat Completions endpoints and an Anthropic-style Messages endpoint, plus image, speech and segmentation routes.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api",
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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/meta-model-api.json",
      "license": "Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party.",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.meta.ai/v1",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "A bearer API key created on the API keys tab of the Model API dashboard after a browser sign-up with email, mobile number, Facebook, Google or GitHub. Keys belong to a team, are shown once and are revoked by deletion. No key scopes were found, and every key on a team shares the team's rate limits.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Muse Wonder is $4.00 per million input tokens, $0.20 cached and $20.00 per million output tokens, Standard mode only (checked 2026-10-12). Muse Spark is $1.25, $0.15 and $4.25, or $0.10, $0.002 and $0.20 in Contributor mode, where Meta may train on the content. Billed in arrears to a card. No free allowance was found.",
      "priceSummary": "$2.50 / 1k req",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in dev.meta.ai/llms.txt, the pricing page, the API reference or the billing help pages, checked 12 October 2026. Usage is charged to a card at a payment threshold or on the 1st of each month.",
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        "image.generate",
        "image.edit",
        "speech.stt",
        "speech.streaming"
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        "official",
        "hosted",
        "model",
        "usage-priced",
        "closed-source",
        "llms-txt",
        "multimodal",
        "streaming",
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        "anthropic-compatible",
        "card-required"
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        "score": 52.2,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 845,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1175,
        "categoryRank": 24,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 60,
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "bestFor": "Long-running agent and coding work over text, images, video, audio and PDFs with a 1M-token context, where training must stay off by default.",
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          "Muse Wonder and Muse Spark take text, image, video, audio and PDF input with a 1,048,576-token context window",
          "Per-token prices, per-model rate limits and rate-limit headers published without a login",
          "Content sent in Standard mode is not used to train Meta models, and training use is opt-in through `-contributor` model IDs",
          "Responses, Chat Completions and Messages endpoints, so the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a base-URL change",
          "llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page, with an error guide that gives the Retry-After value for each retryable error"
        ],
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          "Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found",
          "No free API allowance found, and billing is set up with a card",
          "No status page with history. The docs' status link redirects to the home page, and `/v1/status` reports only the current state",
          "`tool_choice` accepts only `auto`, so a call can't be forced or ruled out",
          "No OpenAPI file, batch endpoint or Model API changelog found, and API keys have no scopes"
        ],
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          "Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests",
          "Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content",
          "Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key",
          "Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`",
          "Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported"
        ],
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          "measured": false
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
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              "tasks"
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 60,
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          "transparency": 41
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        "muse-code"
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          "item": "Muse Wonder input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 4,
          "note": "Standard mode, muse-wonder-1.0. No long-context premium."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Wonder cached input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.2
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        {
          "item": "Muse Wonder output",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 20
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 1.25,
          "note": "Standard mode, muse-spark-1.3, 1.2 and 1.1."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark cached input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.15
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark output",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 4.25
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark input, Contributor mode",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "Meta may use the content to train its models."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark output, Contributor mode",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.2,
          "note": "Cached input is $0.002 per million tokens."
        },
        {
          "item": "Web search grounding",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 2.5,
          "note": "Per 1,000 search queries, on top of token cost."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Image generated image",
          "unit": "image",
          "usd": 0.01
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        "legalEntity": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
        "domain": "meta.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://dev.meta.ai/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/",
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        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last updated 9 October 2026) are an agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for users in the European Region. The model card names the same two.",
          "The privacy field is the Meta Privacy Policy, which the terms link. www.facebook.com's robots.txt asks readers like ours not to fetch it, as the 8 October policy reading records, so it wasn't read. The terms also link a subprocessor list at forwork.meta.com/legal/mfw-subprocessor-list/ and the Meta Global Processor Terms, neither of which was read.",
          "RDAP for meta.ai gives a registration date of 16 December 2017. The API answers at api.meta.ai.",
          "No status page. The error guide links dev.meta.ai/status, which redirects to the home page. `GET /v1/status` is an unauthenticated health endpoint with no history.",
          "No Model API changelog was found. The only changelog on dev.meta.ai is Muse Code's.",
          "dev.meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. www.meta.ai's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, so its security.txt wasn't requested. www.facebook.com/.well-known/security.txt is valid until 11 November 2026 and points to bugbounty.meta.com.",
          "developer.meta.com/ai/ redirects to dev.meta.ai."
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    "answer": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Meta Model API's 52.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Meta Model API leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.",
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      "name": "MiniMax API",
      "vendor": "MiniMax",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.minimax.io",
      "kind": "model",
      "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",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M3",
      "license": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "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).",
      "priceSummary": "from $0.15 / 1M in",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing page. Prepaid balance top-up or an M Plan subscription (checked 2026-10-19).",
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      "rateLimitsUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits",
      "llmsTxt": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/text/api/openapi-chat-anthropic.json",
      "capabilities": [
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        "inference.open-weights"
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        "hosted",
        "model",
        "open-weights",
        "prepaid",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-19",
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 45,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 30,
          "transparency": 64
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          "tasks"
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        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-19"
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        "verdict": "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.",
        "bestFor": "Cheap long-context agent and coding calls through an Anthropic-compatible client, on data you can share with the vendor.",
        "strengths": [
          "M3.1 Flash at $0.15 in, $0.60 out and $0.015 for cache reads per million tokens, flat at any input length",
          "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"
        ],
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          "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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          "measured": false
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
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            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 45,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 30,
          "transparency": 47
        },
        "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": "web_search server tool (beta)",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 10
        },
        {
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          "usd": 22,
          "note": "M3.1 Flash, image and audio, no video. Annual billing pays for 10 months"
        },
        {
          "item": "M Plan Explore",
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          "note": "3 times Go's usage, adds H3 video"
        },
        {
          "item": "M Plan Build",
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          "usd": 132,
          "note": "7.5 times Go's usage, adds H3 video"
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        "domain": "minimax.io",
        "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.minimax.io",
        "changelog": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-19",
        "notes": [
          "Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., 152 Beach Road, #14-02 Gateway East, Singapore, is named in the terms (effective 30 March 2026) and the privacy policy (updated 30 March 2026), read on 19 October 2026 from the document text the pages carry for the browser. The policy reader recorded both pages as unreadable on 8 October, and that reading is kept.",
          "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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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### Meta Model API (D)\n\nGood for: Long-running agent and coding work over text, images, video, audio and PDFs with a 1M-token context, where training must stay off by default.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 30\n\nWatch for: Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found\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 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 52\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 | Meta Model API | MiniMax API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 75 | MiniMax API +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 82 | MiniMax API +22 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 59 | Meta Model API +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 30 | Meta Model API +34 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 45 | Meta Model API +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 64 | MiniMax API +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.2 · D** | **55.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Meta Model API | MiniMax API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Meta | MiniMax |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.meta.ai/v1` | `https://api.minimax.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party. | Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-19 |\n| Terms last updated |  | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 493 stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Meta Model API.** Meta Model API serves Muse Wonder, in preview since 12 October 2026, and Muse Spark with 1M-token context, constrained JSON Schema output, automatic prompt caching and per-token prices published without a login. Standard-mode content is not used for training. There's no free allowance, status history, OpenAPI file, deprecation policy or way to force a tool call.\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### Meta Model API\n\n1. Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests\n2. Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content\n3. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key\n4. Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`\n5. Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported\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, Meta Model API or MiniMax API?\n\nMiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Meta Model API's 52.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Meta Model API leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Meta Model API and MiniMax API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Meta Model API and MiniMax API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Meta Model API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.meta.ai/v1 and MiniMax API at https://api.minimax.io.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-minimax-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-minimax-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"meta-model-api\", \"b\": \"minimax-api\"}`. 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