MiniMax API vs Router.com (Ramp Router)

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.

Router.com (Ramp Router)

Detailed Markdown docs with typed error codes, per-model capability data and routing an agent can set per request. No OpenAPI document, status page, changelog or published rate limits were found. Signup needs a US business email in a browser, and Ramp records prompts and outputs for a year by default unless switched off.

MiniMax API

1. 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
2. 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
3. Don't rely on stop_sequences or top_k. The Anthropic-format endpoint ignores them
4. Back off on 429 and 529 yourself. No Retry-After header is documented
5. 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

Router.com (Ramp Router)

1. Switch off content recording in Settings before sending private data. It is on by default and keeps prompts and outputs for a year
2. Read model ids from GET /v1/models at runtime. Ids are account-specific, an unknown one is a 404, and Gemini ids need your own Google key
3. Use POST /v1/responses with a models list for fallbacks. Router stops falling back once a stream has started
4. Set fallback_timeout and provider_timeout, or allow_flex_tier: false, when latency matters. Flex routing is on by default
5. Treat both 401 invalid_api_key and 401 api_key_deactivated as a possibly locked key, and stop retrying on 402