{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "minimax-api", "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", "where": "hosted", "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).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 493, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-19" }, "docsUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/text-generation", "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": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "prepaid", "openapi", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 751, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 19, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 75, "schema": 82, "security": 30, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-19" }, "negative": 0, "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" ], "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" ], "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 75, "schema": 82, "security": 30, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "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\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/minimax-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "minimax-video", "minimax-voice-cloning", "minimax-code" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "web_search server tool (beta)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "M Plan Go", "unit": "month", "usd": 22, "note": "M3.1 Flash, image and audio, no video. Annual billing pays for 10 months" }, { "item": "M Plan Explore", "unit": "month", "usd": 55, "note": "3 times Go's usage, adds H3 video" }, { "item": "M Plan Build", "unit": "month", "usd": 132, "note": "7.5 times Go's usage, adds H3 video" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nanonoble Pte. Ltd.", "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." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.json", "live": { "slug": "minimax-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.minimax.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:17.575383015Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 299, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 258, "p95ms24h": 445, "samples24h": 38, "samples30d": 38, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 38, "ok": 38 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.minimax.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:19.534162785Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:03.5197794Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:19.534162785Z" } }, "answer": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 58.9 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL", "vendor": "NVIDIA", "vendorUrl": "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is NVIDIA's open-weight vision-language model for agents, a 120B mixture of experts with 12B active parameters that reads text, images and video. NVIDIA hosts a free trial endpoint, and the weights are under OpenMDW-1.1.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16", "license": "OpenMDW-1.1 for the weights (permissive, not an OSI licence). The hosted trial endpoint is under the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, and the NIM container under the NVIDIA Software Licence Agreement", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer key (`nvapi-...`) in the Authorization header, generated by a signed-in person at build.nvidia.com/settings. NVIDIA's NGC docs say personal keys are limited to the services and role chosen at creation and take an expiry date, and organisation administrators can create service keys scoped to actions. The same key pulls the NIM container from nvcr.io. The Hugging Face weights are ungated and need no key.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The hosted endpoint is free with no card, for prototyping, research and testing only, at up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day. Production use needs a partner endpoint, such as Crusoe or DeepInfra at $0.10 input and $0.40 output per million tokens on OpenRouter, or self-hosting, where the NIM needs NVIDIA AI Enterprise at $4,500 a GPU a year (checked 2026-10-17).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on build.nvidia.com, the OpenAPI file or the NIM docs. The hosted endpoint is free behind a key and has no payment route (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b", "llmsTxt": "https://build.nvidia.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.api.nvidia.com/nim/reference/nvidia-nemotron-3_5-super-vl-120b-a12b-infer", "capabilities": [ "inference.open-weights", "inference.llm", "inference.local" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "hosted", "free", "no-card", "trial", "multimodal", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "gpu", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.9, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 631, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 35, "reliability": 58, "schema": 74, "security": 51, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "NVIDIA's free endpoint takes OpenAI-format requests with typed tool calls, JSON Schema output and an OpenAPI 3.1 file, and the weights run anywhere under a permissive licence. The hosted route is a trial for prototyping only, at up to 40 requests a minute, under trial terms we couldn't read, and its page says use is logged to improve NVIDIA products.", "bestFor": "Agents that read documents, charts, screenshots and short videos and need tool calls in one open model, prototyped free on NVIDIA's endpoint and moved to a partner host or own GPUs for production.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 file for the hosted chat endpoint, with enums for `reasoning_effort`, `tool_choice` and `response_format`", "Tool calls with `tool_choice` auto, none, required or a named function, parallel calls, and `json_schema` structured output", "Weights in BF16 and NVFP4 under OpenMDW-1.1, a permissive licence with no field-of-use limits, plus open datasets and training recipes", "Free hosted endpoint with no card, on the same base URL and key as NVIDIA's other catalogue models", "Up to 1M tokens of context in the weights, and reasoning that can be switched off per request" ], "weaknesses": [ "NVIDIA says its hosted endpoints are for prototyping, research and testing only, and production use needs a partner endpoint or self-hosting", "Rate limit of up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day, which NVIDIA says can vary with other users' traffic", "The NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, which govern the hosted endpoint, are on a host whose robots.txt answered access denied, so we didn't read them", "The hosted page lists 262K tokens of context while the card says 1M, and labels the model early access while the card says GA", "No changelog, deprecation policy or SLA for the hosted catalogue was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `chat_template_kwargs` to `{\"enable_thinking\": false}` for short tasks. Reasoning is on by default, and reasoning tokens share the `max_tokens` budget", "Read reasoning from `reasoning_content` and the answer from `content`, and set `stream` explicitly since the API reference defaults it to true", "Don't send confidential or personal data to the hosted trial. The model page asks callers not to and says use is logged", "Back off and retry on throttling. Limits are up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day, and no 429 or Retry-After behaviour is documented", "For production, use a partner endpoint or serve the weights. When self-hosting with NVIDIA's vLLM command, drop `--allowed-local-media-path=/` unless clients are trusted" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 35, "reliability": 58, "schema": 74, "security": 51, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 79 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $NVIDIA_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Accept: application/json\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Which number is larger, 9.11 or 9.8?\"}],\n \"temperature\": 1.0,\n \"top_p\": 0.95,\n \"max_tokens\": 8192,\n \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": true},\n \"stream\": true\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, "sameCompany": [ "nvidia-nemo-retriever", "nemo-guardrails" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NVIDIA Corporation", "domain": "nvidia.com", "domainRegistered": "1993-04-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://assets.ngc.nvidia.com/products/api-catalog/legal/NVIDIA%20API%20Trial%20Terms%20of%20Service.pdf", "privacy": "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.ngc.nvidia.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The card names NVIDIA Corporation as model developer. The hosted endpoint is on integrate.api.nvidia.com and the model page on build.nvidia.com, both under nvidia.com. RDAP gives a registration date of 20 April 1993.", "The model page names the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, a PDF on assets.ngc.nvidia.com, as the governing terms of the hosted trial. That host's robots.txt answered with an S3 AccessDenied error, so the PDF was not read, as for the nvidia-nemo-retriever listing.", "The privacy policy is NVIDIA's general policy, effective 22 September 2025. It does not address prompts sent to the API catalogue. The model page's consent text says use is logged for security and to improve NVIDIA products and services, and that the logged data for improvement is not linked to the user's identity.", "status.ngc.nvidia.com is a Statuspage site with components for NVIDIA Build and Cloud Functions, the service the hosted endpoints run on per the error URNs in the OpenAPI file.", "No changelog for the API catalogue or the model was found. The Hugging Face commit history records card revisions from 12 to 16 October 2026.", "www.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 403 and build.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt returned the site's HTML page. Vulnerability reports go to NVIDIA PSIRT, linked from the model card." ], "score": 79 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "live": { "slug": "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "probe": { "target": "https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:18.589018417Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 54, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 50, "p95ms24h": 85, "samples24h": 257, "samples30d": 477, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 200, "ok": 200 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.ngc.nvidia.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:20.926222404Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints", "version": "1.5.0", "released": "2026-10-14", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T04:06:46.885970328Z" } ], "pypiWeekly": 130039, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:54:37.448377865Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://build.nvidia.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T14:28:24.788292919Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "nvidia.com", "registered": "1993-04-20", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/nvidia.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:37:04.111135943Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:20.926222404Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "NVIDIA", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.minimax.io", "b": "https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence", "b": "OpenMDW-1.1 for the weights (permissive, not an OSI licence). The hosted trial endpoint is under the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, and the NIM container under the NVIDIA Software Licence Agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-19", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "493 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.8/5 (4)", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 58.9 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax API or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do MiniMax API and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL at https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call MiniMax API and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 58", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 74", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 59" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Cheap long-context agent and coding calls through an Anthropic-compatible client, on data you can share with the vendor.", "slug": "minimax-api", "watchFor": "The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to develop and improve its services, and no opt-out was found" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 65 against 59", "Security \u0026 auth, 51 against 30", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 45" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that read documents, charts, screenshots and short videos and need tool calls in one open model, prototyped free on NVIDIA's endpoint and moved to a partner host or own GPUs for production.", "slug": "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "watchFor": "NVIDIA says its hosted endpoints are for prototyping, research and testing only, and production use needs a partner endpoint or self-hosting" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Claude API vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "title": "Claude API vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Antseed vs MiniMax API", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-underdog.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Underdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-underdog" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 17, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "reliability", "minimax-api": 75, "name": "Reliability", "nemotron-3-5-super-vl": 58, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "schema", "minimax-api": 82, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "nemotron-3-5-super-vl": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "key": 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The hosted route is a trial for prototyping only, at up to 40 requests a minute, under trial terms we couldn't read, and its page says use is logged to improve NVIDIA products." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.min.md" }, "markdown": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 58.9 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do llm inference.\n\n- MiniMax API: grade C, 55.2/100, rank #751 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json\n- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: grade C, 58.9/100, rank #631 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.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### 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 58\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 74\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 59\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### Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that read documents, charts, screenshots and short videos and need tool calls in one open model, prototyped free on NVIDIA's endpoint and moved to a partner host or own GPUs for production.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 51 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: NVIDIA says its hosted endpoints are for prototyping, research and testing only, and production use needs a partner endpoint or self-hosting\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax API | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 58 | MiniMax API +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 74 | MiniMax API +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 65 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 51 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 71 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +26 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 59 | MiniMax API +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.2 · C** | **58.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax API | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | NVIDIA |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.minimax.io` | `https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence | OpenMDW-1.1 for the weights (permissive, not an OSI licence). The hosted trial endpoint is under the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, and the NIM container under the NVIDIA Software Licence Agreement |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\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 | 493 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Nemotron 3.5 Super VL.** NVIDIA's free endpoint takes OpenAI-format requests with typed tool calls, JSON Schema output and an OpenAPI 3.1 file, and the weights run anywhere under a permissive licence. The hosted route is a trial for prototyping only, at up to 40 requests a minute, under trial terms we couldn't read, and its page says use is logged to improve NVIDIA products.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Nemotron 3.5 Super VL\n\n1. Set `chat_template_kwargs` to `{\"enable_thinking\": false}` for short tasks. Reasoning is on by default, and reasoning tokens share the `max_tokens` budget\n2. Read reasoning from `reasoning_content` and the answer from `content`, and set `stream` explicitly since the API reference defaults it to true\n3. Don't send confidential or personal data to the hosted trial. The model page asks callers not to and says use is logged\n4. Back off and retry on throttling. Limits are up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day, and no 429 or Retry-After behaviour is documented\n5. For production, use a partner endpoint or serve the weights. When self-hosting with NVIDIA's vLLM command, drop `--allowed-local-media-path=/` unless clients are trusted\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax API or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?\n\nNemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 58.9 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do MiniMax API and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call MiniMax API and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL without installing anything?\n\nYes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL at https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-api\", \"b\": \"nemotron-3-5-super-vl\"}`. 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