{ "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": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "reflection-beam", "name": "Beam 1.0", "vendor": "Reflection", "vendorUrl": "https://reflection.ai", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Beam 1.0 is Reflection's open-weight text model for coding, reasoning and agentic work, with 501B total and 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context, served by the Reflection API in public beta and released as Apache-2.0 weights.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reflection-beam.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/reflection/Beam-1.0-501B-A23B", "license": "Weights under Apache-2.0. The hosted Reflection API is a closed service under Reflection AI, Inc.'s commercial terms of service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key created by a person on platform.reflection.ai under API Keys. Each key belongs to one project and to the user who made it, is shown once, can be revoked from the API Keys page, and is disabled if that user leaves the organisation or project. No scopes, expiry or key-management API found. The docs say some organisations must verify a credit card in Billing before their keys work (`payment_method_required`). Self-hosted weights need no account; the Hugging Face repositories are not gated.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The Reflection API is a public beta, free with a daily usage allocation per account that resets once a day. The beta pricing page gives no allocation figures and still carries template placeholders for the reset time and the dashboard location. No per-token price for after the beta was found. The commercial terms promise 30 days' notice before fees rise. Hosted copies on OpenRouter cost $0.25 to $1.30 input and $1.00 to $4.30 output per million tokens (Nebius, Together, CoreWeave, Baseten, checked 2026-10-17). The weights are free to self-host under Apache-2.0.", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Reflection docs, llms.txt, OpenAPI document or terms. Access needs a browser sign-up on platform.reflection.ai and an API key (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.reflection.ai/introduction", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://developers.reflection.ai/rate-limits", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.reflection.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.reflection.ai/api-reference/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "free", "beta", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "status-page", "apache-2.0", "gpu", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.4, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 802, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 22, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 20, "reliability": 40, "schema": 84, "security": 46, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Reflection API is OpenAI-compatible, with an OpenAPI document, strict structured outputs and tool calls, and error codes that say when to retry, and the weights are Apache-2.0. It is a free public beta with unpublished daily limits and no per-token price, reasoning can't be turned off, and three API incidents were posted between 14 and 16 October 2026.", "bestFor": "An OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a large open-weight coding and agent model, for builders who want the same model hosted or self-hosted under Apache-2.0.", "strengths": [ "OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions with `tool_choice`, parallel tool calls, strict tool schemas and `json_schema` structured outputs", "Error reference lists every status and code with whether to retry, and responses carry `Retry-After`, `x-should-retry` and `x-request-id`", "OpenAPI 3.0.3 document, llms.txt, a Markdown copy of every page and a docs MCP endpoint at developers.reflection.ai/mcp", "1,048,576-token context and up to 131,072 output tokens, with reasoning returned in its own `reasoning_content` field", "Weights in BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 under Apache-2.0, ungated, with Reflection's guides for SGLang, vLLM, TokenSpeed, Transformers, Helm and Dynamo" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API is a public beta with no SLA, and per-organisation rate limits and the daily allocation are not published as numbers", "Reasoning is mandatory and defaults to `max`, and a tool-call turn returned without `reasoning_content` makes every later request in that session fail", "The commercial terms grant Reflection a training licence over content sent to free or discounted services, while its API safety page says content isn't used for training by default", "Flagged content retention is 12 months in the terms but two years on the API safety page, and zero data retention is not yet available", "Three API incidents in its first three days, two rated critical, with no changelog or model deprecation notice period found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `reasoning_effort` `low` or `medium` for short tasks. The default is `max`, and `none` or `minimal` return `400 unsupported_value`", "Return every assistant message with its `reasoning_content` unchanged. If a turn comes back without it, start a new conversation, since later requests fail with `missing_required_parameter`", "Don't rely on `stop` or `seed`. Both are accepted and ignored, so truncate output in your own code", "Honour `x-should-retry: false` on a 429. It means a daily limit is spent and `Retry-After` counts to 00:00 UTC", "Set `max_completion_tokens` yourself on long prompts. The default budget isn't reduced to fit the prompt and includes reasoning tokens" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 20, "reliability": 40, "schema": 84, "security": 46, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install openai # or: npm install openai, with base URL https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1", "http": "curl https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $REFLECTION_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"Beam-1.0-501B-A23B\",\n \"messages\": [\n {\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Why is the sky blue?\"}\n ]\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/reflection-beam" }, "sameCompany": [ "reflection-mirror" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Reflection AI, Inc.", "domain": "reflection.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "domainNote": "RDAP gives a registration date of 16 December 2017 and a transfer on 15 March 2024, so the domain predates the current owner.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://reflection.ai/legal/commercial-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://reflection.ai/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.reflection.ai", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The commercial terms, last updated 5 October 2026, name Reflection AI, Inc. and New York law. The privacy policy was last updated 28 August 2026. The DPA uses Irish law for its EU clauses.", "reflection.ai/.well-known/security.txt, developers.reflection.ai/.well-known/security.txt and api.reflection.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026. platform.reflection.ai answers every path with its app page. The model card names reports@reflection.ai for security vulnerabilities.", "No changelog or release notes found in the docs, llms.txt or sitemap, and /changelog returned 404.", "reflection.ai's robots.txt disallows /docs and /api/, which were not fetched. platform.reflection.ai is a sign-in app and was not read beyond its public shell." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.json", "live": { "slug": "reflection-beam", "probe": { "target": "https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:24.087208699Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 564, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 350, "p95ms24h": 458, "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.reflection.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:40.312564115Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://reflection.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:53.094468099Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.reflection.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T14:28:44.513402466Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "reflection.ai", "registered": "2017-12-16", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/reflection.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:37:18.291315896Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://reflection.ai/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:36:29.214513495Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9c7c5b230f4e" }, { "url": "https://reflection.ai/legal/commercial-terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:36:26.525992006Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a23138fc242a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:40.312564115Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "Reflection", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.minimax.io", "b": "https://api.reflection.ai/openai/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": "Weights under Apache-2.0. The hosted Reflection API is a closed service under Reflection AI, Inc.'s commercial terms of service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-19", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "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": "2.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax API or Beam 1.0?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do MiniMax API and Beam 1.0 need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Beam 1.0 at https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call MiniMax API and Beam 1.0 without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 40" ], "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, 67 against 59", "Security \u0026 auth, 46 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 50 against 45" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a large open-weight coding and agent model, for builders who want the same model hosted or self-hosted under Apache-2.0.", "slug": "reflection-beam", "watchFor": "The API is a public beta with no SLA, and per-organisation rate limits and the daily allocation are not published as numbers" } ], "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-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Claude API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Antseed vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Antseed vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": 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"MiniMax API vs Prism Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-prism-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "OpenAI API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-reflection-beam" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 35, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "reliability", "minimax-api": 75, "name": "Reliability", "reflection-beam": 40, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "reflection-beam", "key": "schema", "minimax-api": 82, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reflection-beam": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "reflection-beam", "key": "ergonomics", "minimax-api": 59, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reflection-beam": 67, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "reflection-beam", "key": "security", "minimax-api": 30, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reflection-beam": 46, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "minimax-api": 20, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reflection-beam": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "reflection-beam", "key": "maintenance", "minimax-api": 45, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reflection-beam": 50, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "reflection-beam", "key": "transparency", "minimax-api": 64, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reflection-beam": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "reflection-beam": "The Reflection API is OpenAI-compatible, with an OpenAPI document, strict structured outputs and tool calls, and error codes that say when to retry, and the weights are Apache-2.0. It is a free public beta with unpublished daily limits and no per-token price, reasoning can't be turned off, and three API incidents were posted between 14 and 16 October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam.min.md" }, "markdown": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community. 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- Beam 1.0: grade D, 53.4/100, rank #802 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reflection-beam.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 40\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### Beam 1.0 (D)\n\nGood for: An OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a large open-weight coding and agent model, for builders who want the same model hosted or self-hosted under Apache-2.0.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 46 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 50 against 45\n\nWatch for: The API is a public beta with no SLA, and per-organisation rate limits and the daily allocation are not published as numbers\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax API | Beam 1.0 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 40 | MiniMax API +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 84 | Beam 1.0 +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 67 | Beam 1.0 +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 46 | Beam 1.0 +16 |\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) | 45 | 50 | Beam 1.0 +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 68 | Beam 1.0 +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.2 · C** | **53.4 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax API | Beam 1.0 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | Reflection |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.minimax.io` | `https://api.reflection.ai/openai/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 | Weights under Apache-2.0. The hosted Reflection API is a closed service under Reflection AI, Inc.'s commercial terms of service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 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 | 493 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (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**Beam 1.0.** The Reflection API is OpenAI-compatible, with an OpenAPI document, strict structured outputs and tool calls, and error codes that say when to retry, and the weights are Apache-2.0. It is a free public beta with unpublished daily limits and no per-token price, reasoning can't be turned off, and three API incidents were posted between 14 and 16 October 2026.\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### Beam 1.0\n\n1. Send `reasoning_effort` `low` or `medium` for short tasks. The default is `max`, and `none` or `minimal` return `400 unsupported_value`\n2. Return every assistant message with its `reasoning_content` unchanged. If a turn comes back without it, start a new conversation, since later requests fail with `missing_required_parameter`\n3. Don't rely on `stop` or `seed`. Both are accepted and ignored, so truncate output in your own code\n4. Honour `x-should-retry: false` on a 429. It means a daily limit is spent and `Retry-After` counts to 00:00 UTC\n5. Set `max_completion_tokens` yourself on long prompts. The default budget isn't reduced to fit the prompt and includes reasoning tokens\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax API or Beam 1.0?\n\nMiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do MiniMax API and Beam 1.0 need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call MiniMax API and Beam 1.0 without installing anything?\n\nYes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Beam 1.0 at https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-api\", \"b\": \"reflection-beam\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare minimax-api reflection-beam`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reflection-beam.json\n\n## Other comparisons with MiniMax API or Beam 1.0\n\n- [Claude API vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- [Claude API vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [Antseed vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- [Antseed vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [Cerebras Inference vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- 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