{ "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": 775, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 19, "methodology": "0.7", "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": "0.7", "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, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-19", "maintenance": "2026-10-19", "payments": "2026-10-19", "reliability": "2026-10-19", "schema": "2026-10-19", "security": "2026-10-19", "transparency": "2026-10-19" }, "last": "2026-10-19", "oldest": "2026-10-19", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "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", "minimax-m2-5", "minimax-m2-7", "minimax-m3-1-flash" ], "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": "2026-10-28T05:40:56.869469876Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 172, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 215, "p95ms24h": 561, "samples24h": 251, "samples30d": 2161, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 60, "ok": 60 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.minimax.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T05:32:14.38676398Z" }, "githubStars": 497, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T15:31:11.2669296Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T14:58:29.840845592Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "minimax.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:52:12.446610874Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/faq/models", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:40:44.555592507Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-27T03:52:02.013940758Z", "fingerprint": "5b0de29747c2" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:40:52.901517536Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-27T03:52:10.233405098Z", "fingerprint": "d3bc87b7ef9f" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:40:49.282366772Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-27T03:52:06.504194634Z", "fingerprint": "2dd702d8e88b" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:40:54.893229882Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:40:57.618150334Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "github": { "repo": "minimax-ai/minimax-m3", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:05:21.91714072Z", "stars": 495, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-26T07:05:04Z", "openIssues": 28, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 8, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 1, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 23, "medianDays": 8.8 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T05:40:56.869469876Z" } }, "answer": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "simplismart", "name": "Simplismart", "vendor": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://simplismart.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "inference", "summary": "Simplismart is an inference platform for open models. It runs 150+ models on shared pay-per-token endpoints with an OpenAI-compatible API, and handles dedicated GPU deployments, bring-your-own-cloud clusters and fine-tuning jobs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.simplismart.live", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "simplismart-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API keys made under Settings, API Keys. Each key has a unique name and an expiry chosen at creation; non-expiring keys need a request to support. Keys return 401 after midnight UTC on the expiry date and can be deleted at once. The Python SDK and CLI use a separate Playground token. Organisation roles are Admin, Member and Billing User, and workspaces scope models and deployments.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Shared endpoints are priced per 1M tokens, per image or per audio minute, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 and DeepSeek-V3 at $0.90 per 1M tokens. Dedicated GPUs run from $1.20 (T4) to $5.20 (H200) per GPU-hour. Prepaid credits at $1 each; new organisations may receive $5 of free credits.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs (llms.txt index, billing, API keys and API reference pages) or on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026. Credits are bought by card, UPI or netbanking, or billed postpaid.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-28" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.simplismart.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/openapi-specs/playground/llama-8b.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "speech.stt", "image.generate", "compute.endpoints", "finetune.sft", "finetune.lora", "finetune.preference", "finetune.rl" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "usage-based", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "dedicated-endpoints", "byoc", "fine-tuning" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 29.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1146, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 32, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 31 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-28" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.", "bestFor": "Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.", "strengths": [ "Public per-unit prices without a login, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 per 1M tokens and Whisper v3 Turbo at $0.0018 per audio minute", "API keys are named, carry an expiry date chosen at creation, return 401 after expiry and can be deleted at once", "Markdown docs and an llms.txt index, with OpenAPI 3.1 files for seven LLMs, Whisper and Flux", "Shared endpoints, dedicated GPU deployments and bring-your-own-cloud clusters sit on one account, with workspaces and organisation roles" ], "weaknesses": [ "No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages", "No status page, incident history or SLA document found; the 99.99% uptime figure is a homepage claim", "Tool calling, structured output, prompt caching and context lengths are not documented for the shared endpoints", "The terms (13 January 2023) and privacy policy cover the website and say nothing about prompt retention or training on API data", "The pricing page lists older models (Llama 3.1, DeepSeek-R1) and omits Gemma 4 31B, the model the quickstart uses" ], "agentNotes": [ "Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.", "Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.", "Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.", "Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.", "Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 29.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 14 }, "provenanceScore": 48, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-28", "maintenance": "2026-10-28", "payments": "2026-10-28", "reliability": "2026-10-28", "schema": "2026-10-28", "security": "2026-10-28", "transparency": "2026-10-28" }, "last": "2026-10-28", "oldest": "2026-10-28", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.simplismart.live/chat/completions' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SIMPLISMART_API_KEY\" -d '{\"model\": \"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Say hello.\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/simplismart" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Llama 3.1 8B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.13, "note": "Single per-1M-token rate on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026; input and output are not priced separately" }, { "item": "Llama 3.3 70B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.74, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "DeepSeek-V3 (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.9, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Whisper v3 Turbo (shared)", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0018, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Flux Dev (shared, 1024x1024)", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.03, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "NVIDIA H100, dedicated", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 5, "note": "Pricing page table order, checked 28 October 2026; a Simplismart article gives $4.00 per hour" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "domain": "simplismart.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-28", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 13 January 2023) and privacy policy (effective 13 January 2023) name Verute Technologies Private Limited, Indian law and an address on Residency Road, Bengaluru. Both define the Service as the simplismart.ai website.", "The inference API answers on api.simplismart.live, a separate domain named in the docs. Domain registration was not checked.", "No status page found. The docs and site link none, and status.simplismart.ai could not be reached from our network.", "No changelog found in the docs sitemap or llms.txt. Model additions appear as blog posts.", "simplismart.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered 404." ], "score": 48 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.json", "live": { "slug": "simplismart", "probe": { "target": "https://api.simplismart.live", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T05:41:06.267913122Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 53, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 55, "p95ms24h": 125, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 18, "ok": 18 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:43:26.224508402Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bd2d6d5ffe37" }, { "url": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:43:28.253583075Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "94fe8807daf7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T05:41:06.267913122Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.minimax.io", "b": "https://api.simplismart.live", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "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": "Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences.", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-19", "b": "2026-10-19", "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": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax API or Simplismart?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do MiniMax API and Simplismart need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Simplismart at https://api.simplismart.live.", "question": "Can an agent call MiniMax API and Simplismart without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 51", "Agent ergonomics, 59 against 17", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 31" ], "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": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 35 against 30", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate 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"scores": [ { "by": 60, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "reliability", "minimax-api": 75, "name": "Reliability", "simplismart": 15, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 31, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "schema", "minimax-api": 82, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "simplismart": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 42, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "ergonomics", "minimax-api": 59, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "simplismart": 17, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "simplismart", "key": "security", "minimax-api": 30, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "simplismart": 35, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "simplismart", "key": "payments", "minimax-api": 20, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "simplismart": 25, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "maintenance", "minimax-api": 45, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "simplismart": 42, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 33, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "transparency", "minimax-api": 64, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "simplismart": 31, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. 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.", "simplismart": "Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-simplismart", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-simplismart.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-simplismart.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-simplismart.min.md" }, "markdown": "MiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- MiniMax API: grade C, 55.2/100, rank #775 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json\n- Simplismart: grade F, 29.7/100, rank #1146 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 497 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 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 51\n- Agent ergonomics, 59 against 17\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 31\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### Simplismart (F)\n\nGood for: Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 35 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nWatch for: No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax API | Simplismart | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 15 | MiniMax API +60 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 51 | MiniMax API +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 17 | MiniMax API +42 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Simplismart +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Simplismart +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 42 | MiniMax API +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 31 | MiniMax API +33 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.2 · C** | **29.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax API | Simplismart |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | Verute Technologies Private Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.minimax.io` | `https://api.simplismart.live` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\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 | Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 |\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) | none |\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**Simplismart.** Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.\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### Simplismart\n\n1. Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.\n2. Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.\n3. Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.\n4. Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.\n5. Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax API or Simplismart?\n\nMiniMax API scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do MiniMax API and Simplismart need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call MiniMax API and Simplismart without installing anything?\n\nYes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Simplismart at https://api.simplismart.live.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-simplismart.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-simplismart.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-api\", \"b\": \"simplismart\"}`. 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