{ "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", "dns": "minimax-api.grade.anchorterminal.com", "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": 55.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 800, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1260, "categoryRank": 20, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 75, "schema": 82, "security": 30, "transparency": 65 }, "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": 55.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 75, "schema": 82, "security": 30, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 82, "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", "lastMoved": "2026-10-28", "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": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.json", "live": { "slug": "minimax-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.minimax.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T00:56:11.95125631Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 311, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 210, "p95ms24h": 586, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 3359, "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": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 10, "ok": 10 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.minimax.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T01:00:57.988049518Z" }, "githubStars": 498, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:43:10.705149716Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:14:15.771721418Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "minimax.io", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:11:19.440143188Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/faq/models", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:50:01.545871356Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-29T05:13:04.929214003Z", "fingerprint": "ebfe9e7f9bdd" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:50:09.703176617Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-29T05:13:13.199187955Z", "fingerprint": "7afbe2d064f4" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:50:05.995898001Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:18:18.131506382Z", "fingerprint": "2d88c2dfb76d" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:50:11.715258642Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:18:23.585835081Z", "fingerprint": "1ae59257a3a9" }, { "url": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:50:13.661599596Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:18:25.544630345Z", "fingerprint": "f98c6c8b7950" } ], "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": "2026-11-02T01:00:57.988049518Z" } }, "answer": "Tencent Cloud TokenHub scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "tencent-tokenhub", "name": "Tencent Cloud TokenHub", "vendor": "Tencent Cloud", "vendorUrl": "https://cloud.tencent.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "Tencent Cloud TokenHub is a hosted model gateway serving Tencent's Hy models and third-party models such as DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM and MiniMax through OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints in Guangzhou and Singapore, with per-key scopes and quotas.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencent-tokenhub", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencent-tokenhub.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencent-tokenhub.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tencent-tokenhub.json", "dns": "tencent-tokenhub.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/TencentCloud/THCLI", "license": "Proprietary service under the TokenHub Terms of Service, the TokenHub SLA and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, with a special note for third-party deployed models. The `tencent-tokenhub-cli` package is Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "tencent-tokenhub-cli" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key from the TokenHub console, or `x-api-key` on the Anthropic-style `/v1/messages`. Keys are long-lived, belong to one region (Guangzhou or Singapore), can be limited to chosen models and inference services, up to 200 IP ranges and token quotas, and can be disabled or deleted. They can also be created through the CreateApiKey control-plane call with signed Tencent Cloud credentials, or by `thcli auth login`. The account needs real-name verification first.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay per token in CNY, billed hourly. Hy4 preview costs 6 CNY in, 18 CNY out and 0.3 CNY cached per 1M tokens, Hy3 1, 4 and 0.25 CNY. DeepSeek models double at weekday peak hours. Batch is half price for Hy3 and Hy4 preview. Each account gets 1M free tokens per language model for a year, in a campaign to 31 December 2026. Token Plan subscriptions run from 28 to 599 CNY a month (https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130055, checked 2026-11-01).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs table of contents, the billing pages or the API usage page. Payment is from a Tencent Cloud account balance, billed hourly (checked 2026-11-01).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 204, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-01" }, "docsUrl": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130058", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/136028", "llmsTxt": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "embed.text", "embed.multimodal", "image.generate", "video.generate", "speech.tts", "speech.stt", "audio.music", "translate.text", "web.search", "obs.gateway" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "usage-based", "free-credit", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "llms-txt", "cli", "sla", "batch", "bug-bounty", "no-status-page", "regional-endpoints", "singapore", "chinese", "subscription" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 646, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1260, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 35, "reliability": 46, "schema": 73, "security": 71, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-17. -3, a breaking change without notice. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (directly supplied) was moved to its 1017 version under the same model ids and prices on 17 October 2026, and the notice came two days later (https://cloud.tencent.com/announce/detail/2516). Callers pinned to the id got a different model's behaviour with no warning. One term at the floor: the API didn't change. The founder's decision, 1 November 2026." ], "verdict": "Keys can be limited to chosen models, source IPs and token quotas, errors name their source and code, and a 99.5% SLA covers paid use of models Tencent runs. Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification, prices are in CNY, no public status page was found, and 18 model retirement notices ran from April to October 2026.", "bestFor": "Teams in or near Tencent Cloud that want one key and bill for Tencent's Hy models and Chinese open-weight models (DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Qwen, MiMo) with per-key limits and CNY billing.", "strengths": [ "API keys can be limited to chosen models and inference services, up to 200 source IP ranges, and daily, monthly or total token quotas", "One base URL answers OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages calls, and `GET /v1/models` marks models due to retire as `pre-offline`", "Error bodies carry a six-digit code, English and Chinese messages, the source (client, gateway or upstream) and a request ID, and 429s can carry `Retry-After`", "A published SLA promises 99.5% monthly availability with voucher credits of 10 to 50 per cent of the month's fee, for paid use of models Tencent runs", "Per-call audit logs (request ID, key, client IP, status, tokens, latency) can be delivered to the customer's own Tencent Cloud CLS log service" ], "weaknesses": [ "Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification. The international site answered with a bot check, so access from outside China was not established", "No public status page was found. A four-hour outage of DeepSeek's directly supplied models on 15 October 2026 appears only as a compensation notice", "18 model retirement notices from 21 April to 22 October 2026. Those read gave 21 to 33 days, and eligible callers are switched to a successor at its price", "DeepSeek's directly supplied models send inputs to DeepSeek under its own terms, and the TokenHub SLA does not cover them", "Per-model RPM and TPM limits for chat models are shown in the console and the quota API, not in the public docs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1` with keys made for Guangzhou and `https://tokenhub-intl.tencentmaas.com/v1` with keys made for Singapore. Keys do not work across the two", "Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer` on the OpenAI paths and as `x-api-key` on `/v1/messages`", "Parse `error.code` as a string or a number, since 429 codes can come back as integers, and wait for `Retry-After` before retrying", "Take model ids from `GET /v1/models` and watch for `pre-offline`. The quickstart's `deepseek-v3` example is not in the current model list", "Expect DeepSeek prices to double on weekdays from 9am to noon and 2pm to 6pm Beijing time, when the peak rate applies" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 35, "reliability": 46, "schema": 73, "security": 71, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 49, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm i -g tencent-tokenhub-cli", "http": "curl https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1/models \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKENHUB_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "{\n \"env\": {\n \"ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL\": \"https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com\",\n \"ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN\": \"YOUR_API_KEY\",\n \"ANTHROPIC_MODEL\": \"hy3\"\n }\n}" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tencent-tokenhub" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (腾讯云计算（北京）有限责任公司)", "domain": "tencentmaas.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-03-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/301/129852", "privacy": "https://privacy.qq.com/document/preview/91d5fd3c98ce4468ae462ac59233bba2", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130675", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "The TokenHub Terms of Service (effective 14 September 2026), the SLA (effective 23 April 2026) and the special note on third-party deployed models (effective 14 September 2026) name 腾讯云计算（北京）有限责任公司. The docs footer also names 深圳市腾讯计算机系统有限公司 as ICP licence holder.", "The TokenHub privacy policy is linked from the docs to privacy.qq.com, which renders only with JavaScript, so it was not read. privacy.qq.com has no robots.txt (404).", "No public status page was found. status.cloud.tencent.com did not answer, and the Tencent Cloud health dashboard documentation answered with a bot check.", "security.txt answered 404 on cloud.tencent.com, www.tencent.com and tokenhub.tencentmaas.com. Tencent's bug bounty policy at en.security.tencent.com lists Tencent Cloud in scope.", "RDAP at Verisign gives tencentmaas.com a registration date of 13 March 2026 with no registrant. The API answers at tokenhub.tencentmaas.com and tokenhub-intl.tencentmaas.com, named in Tencent Cloud's API usage page.", "cloud.tencent.com allows these docs in robots.txt. Its pages answered some requests with a JavaScript bot check, which was not passed. The pages were read when a later plain request returned them. www.tencentcloud.com answered robots.txt with a bot check, so the international site was not read." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencent-tokenhub.json", "live": { "slug": "tencent-tokenhub", "probe": { "target": "https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T00:56:24.101434531Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 795, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 826, "p95ms24h": 1067, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 18, "ok": 18 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 10, "ok": 10 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T00:56:24.101434531Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 41, "category": "security", "leads": "tencent-tokenhub", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading (credential, training, retention, operator visibility, programme). One bearer key per account on the pay-as-you-go side and a separate Subscription Key for M Plan, with no scopes found. MiniMax says it may disable keys that leak publicly (20 of 30). The terms, effective 30 March 2026, say MiniMax may use input and generated content to provide, maintain, develop and improve its services, and no opt-out was found. The privacy policy says only that personal data isn't used for training to profile or target consumers (0 of 20). Data is kept as long as necessary for its purpose, with no period stated and no zero-retention route (5 of 15). A usage page and balance alerts, no audit log found (5 of 15). No security.txt on platform.minimax.io or api.minimax.io, and no bug bounty or certification found (0 of 20). Total 30.", "b": "Router, read on the model lines. Bearer keys can be limited to chosen models and inference services, up to 200 source IP ranges and daily, monthly or total token quotas, can be disabled or deleted, and can be created in code through CreateApiKey with signed Tencent Cloud credentials. Keys are long-lived with no expiry setting or built-in rotation (26 of 30). Clause 2.17 of the terms says inputs are not used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and the FAQ says data is not used for training. Inputs to third-party deployed models (DeepSeek's directly supplied ones) go to DeepSeek under its terms (14 of 20). Clause 2.14 keeps data only as long as the service needs, with no periods stated. When a customer asks for generated content without AI labels, Tencent Cloud keeps logs of who received it for at least six months. No zero-retention option was found (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs (request ID, key, client IP, status, tokens, latency) and optional full call logs go to the customer's CLS, billed separately, with usage by key and a monitoring dashboard (14 of 15). No security.txt on cloud.tencent.com, www.tencent.com or tokenhub.tencentmaas.com (404). Tencent's bug bounty through TSRC lists Tencent Cloud in scope. No certification for TokenHub was checked (10 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 71 } }, { "by": 29, "category": "reliability", "leads": "minimax-api", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Atlassian Statuspage at status.minimax.io with a Large Language Models component (20). Its history feed holds the last 25 incidents, 13 to 19 October 2026. 23 are 'Elevated errors on Large Language Models', each resolved within 1 to 41 minutes, and none lasted an hour. That is minor only on what we could read, though frequent, and the earlier part of the 90 days wasn't readable because robots.txt disallows the incidents API (20). The rate-limits page publishes 200 requests and 10,000,000 tokens a minute for M3.1 Flash and M3 (15). The Anthropic-format OpenAPI file documents 429 for rate limits and 529 as an overload that can be retried, and the error-code page says to retry later on 1002, with no Retry-After header or backoff schedule found (10). No SLA found (0). M3.1 Flash and M3 are generally available, and the Preview name was retired on launch day (10). Total 75.", "b": "Hosted reading. No public status page was found. status.cloud.tencent.com did not answer and the Tencent Cloud health dashboard documentation answered with a bot check (0). With no page there is no incident record to read (5 of 30). The announcements carry one incident, DeepSeek's directly supplied models unavailable from 9:06 to 13:04 Beijing time on 15 October 2026 after a fault at DeepSeek, compensated with vouchers. Rate limits are per model, shown in the console and returned by DescribeModelQuota. The public docs give numbers only for batch jobs (20 created a minute, 10 active), image models (5 concurrent) and DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro (2,500 and 500 concurrent), with the rules for self-serve increases (8 of 15). Six 429 codes separate RPM, TPM, TPD, concurrency and upstream capacity, 429s may carry `Retry-After` and the docs advise exponential backoff. No idempotency guidance, though inference calls are not writes (13 of 15). The TokenHub SLA promises 99.5% monthly availability with vouchers of 10, 25 or 50 per cent of the month's fee. It excludes free use and third-party deployed models such as DeepSeek's directly supplied ones (10). Generally available since 7 April 2026, with some models marked preview (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 46 } }, { "by": 28, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "tencent-tokenhub", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash shipped on 19 October 2026, dated on the model release page (30). No stated notice policy. The M2.5 and M2.7 families closed to new users on 19 October and retire on 18 November, 30 days later, and from 19 October M Plan and Token Plan requests to them are served by M3.1 Flash under the old names. We couldn't find when that notice was first posted (3 of 12). Churn is high. M2.5 (February 2026) and M2.7 (March 2026) retire within nine months of release, M2.1 and M2 are already retired, and the model list calls M2.5 and M2.7 retired while the notice on the same page gives 18 November (2 of 8). A dated release page, support email addresses on the contact and model pages, a Discord server and GitHub issues on the model repositories. We didn't test whether they answer (10 of 15). No official SDK (0 of 15, 0 of 10). Total 45.", "b": "Closed service, read on the model lines. The newest release note is dated 24 October 2026 and the price page was updated on 31 October (30). The four retirement notices read gave 21 to 33 days, and eligible callers are switched to a successor at its price. No minimum notice period is written, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (directly supplied) was moved to the 1017 version under the same ids on 17 October 2026 in a notice dated two days later (7 of 12). 18 retirement notices from 21 April to 22 October 2026, 12 of them since 3 August (3 of 8). Dated release notes and announcements, ticket and phone support around the clock and a Q\u0026A community (13 of 15). Replies on the THCLI repository were not sampled (3 of 10). Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 in several languages covers the control plane and `tencent-tokenhub-cli` 1.0.2 was published on 30 October 2026. No inference SDK of its own (12 of 15). The CLI has four releases since 15 September 2026, lists no runtime dependencies and needs Node.js 18 or later. CI not checked (5 of 10)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 73 } }, { "by": 24, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "tencent-tokenhub", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Tool use on all three formats, with `tool_choice` on the Anthropic format only (17 of 20). No JSON Schema output mode documented on any format (0 of 15). Caching is automatic, with cache reads at a tenth of the input price on M3.1 Flash and a token-count endpoint for sizing a request (15). 1,000,000-token context and up to 524,288 output tokens (15). No batch API found (0). No official SDK. The docs point to the Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs and the AI SDK (0). Typed error bodies with a request id on the Anthropic format and a code table, though `stop_sequences` is ignored without an error (12 of 15). M3.1 Flash can't turn thinking off and defaults to the deepest `effort`, which costs output tokens unless the caller lowers it. Total 59.", "b": "Router, read on the model lines. Function calling is marked on most chat models in the model list, with behaviour depending on the model routed (14 of 20). Structured output is marked per model and missing on the MiniMax and Qwen models, and an unsupported `response_format` returns code 400006 (12 of 15). Cache-hit prices are published per model, Kimi K3.1 Pro lists five-minute and one-hour cache writes, and a guide covers `prompt_cache_key` and the `X-Session-ID` header for instance affinity (14 of 15). Most listed chat models have contexts of one million tokens, a judgement call since a router has no default model (15). Batch at half price covers only Hy3 and Hy4 preview, reads and writes JSONL in the customer's own COS bucket and is documented for the Guangzhou endpoint (5 of 10). No TokenHub inference SDK. The OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a changed base URL, and Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 and the `thcli` CLI cover the control plane (8 of 10). Errors return a code, English and Chinese messages, the source, the upstream code and status and a request ID, and stream errors arrive as SSE error frames (15 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 59, "b": 83 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "payments", "leads": "tencent-tokenhub", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices for M3.1 Flash and M3 are published without a login (20). No free tier found for the text models (0). A person signs up in a browser and tops up a balance or buys an M Plan before the first call (0). Total 20.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices for every model are public in CNY for Guangzhou and Singapore, with DeepSeek's peak and off-peak rates (20). Each account gets 1M free tokens per language model, valid for a year, in a campaign running to 31 December 2026. No card is mentioned, but the account needs real-name verification, so this line takes 15 of 20. A person signs up and completes real-name verification in a browser. Keys can then be created in code or by `thcli auth login`, but only from that account (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 35 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "transparency", "leads": "minimax-api", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service with clear terms under Singapore law and SIAC arbitration. MiniMax-M3's weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence, which isn't an OSI licence and doesn't change the hosted service (15). The terms and privacy policy, both dated 30 March 2026, agree on the contracting entity, that inputs and outputs are processed and may be used to improve services, and that data sits in a United States data centre, but give no retention period and no DPA was read (10 of 30). A dated retirement notice for M2.5 and M2.7 and a retired-models table, undercut by the table contradicting the notice and API release notes a year stale (12 of 20). Data location stated as the United States and an EU representative named, with third parties named only by category (10 of 20). MiniMax publishes an EU AI Act training-data summary for M3. Total 47.", "b": "Closed service under the TokenHub Terms of Service (effective 14 September 2026), the SLA (23 April 2026), a special note on third-party deployed models and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, naming Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The CLI is Apache-2.0 (18 of 30). The terms and the FAQ agree that inputs are processed on the customer's instructions and not used for training, and clause 2.14 limits retention to what the service needs without periods. The TokenHub privacy policy on privacy.qq.com renders only with JavaScript and was not read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices, shutdown dates in the model list, a `pre-offline` status in `/v1/models` and a `DiscontinuedAt` field in the control API. Clause 6.3 refunds paid, unused tokens when a third-party model is removed. No minimum notice period is written (13 of 20). Clause 2.13 places processing generally in mainland China for the China site and in Singapore for the international site, and the third-party model list names DeepSeek's Hangzhou company with a link to its terms. No subprocessor list was found (13 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 65, "b": 54 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model router", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "Tencent Cloud", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.minimax.io", "b": "https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1", "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 service under the TokenHub Terms of Service, the TokenHub SLA and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, with a special note for third-party deployed models. The `tencent-tokenhub-cli` package is Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-19", "b": "2026-10-24", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "493 stars", "b": "204 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.8/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Tencent Cloud TokenHub scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.3 (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 Tencent Cloud TokenHub?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do MiniMax API and Tencent Cloud TokenHub need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Tencent Cloud TokenHub at https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call MiniMax API and Tencent Cloud TokenHub without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 46", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 73", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 54" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Tencent Cloud TokenHub loses 3 points for them" ], "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, 83 against 59", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 30", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 45" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams in or near Tencent Cloud that want one key and bill for Tencent's Hy models and Chinese open-weight models (DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Qwen, MiMo) with per-key limits and CNY billing.", "slug": "tencent-tokenhub", "watchFor": "Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification. 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Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification, prices are in CNY, no public status page was found, and 18 model retirement notices ran from April to October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-tencent-tokenhub", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-tencent-tokenhub.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-tencent-tokenhub.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-tencent-tokenhub.min.md" }, "markdown": "Tencent Cloud TokenHub scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.3 (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, 55.3/100, rank #800 of 1260. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json\n- Tencent Cloud TokenHub: grade C, 59.5/100, rank #646 of 1260. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencent-tokenhub.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tencent-tokenhub.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 529 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 46\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 73\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Tencent Cloud TokenHub loses 3 points for them\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### Tencent Cloud TokenHub (C)\n\nGood for: Teams in or near Tencent Cloud that want one key and bill for Tencent's Hy models and Chinese open-weight models (DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Qwen, MiMo) with per-key limits and CNY billing.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 45\n\nWatch for: Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification. The international site answered with a bot check, so access from outside China was not established\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Tencent Cloud TokenHub +41\n\n- MiniMax API (30): Model reading (credential, training, retention, operator visibility, programme). One bearer key per account on the pay-as-you-go side and a separate Subscription Key for M Plan, with no scopes found. MiniMax says it may disable keys that leak publicly (20 of 30). The terms, effective 30 March 2026, say MiniMax may use input and generated content to provide, maintain, develop and improve its services, and no opt-out was found. The privacy policy says only that personal data isn't used for training to profile or target consumers (0 of 20). Data is kept as long as necessary for its purpose, with no period stated and no zero-retention route (5 of 15). A usage page and balance alerts, no audit log found (5 of 15). No security.txt on platform.minimax.io or api.minimax.io, and no bug bounty or certification found (0 of 20). Total 30.\n- Tencent Cloud TokenHub (71): Router, read on the model lines. Bearer keys can be limited to chosen models and inference services, up to 200 source IP ranges and daily, monthly or total token quotas, can be disabled or deleted, and can be created in code through CreateApiKey with signed Tencent Cloud credentials. Keys are long-lived with no expiry setting or built-in rotation (26 of 30). Clause 2.17 of the terms says inputs are not used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and the FAQ says data is not used for training. Inputs to third-party deployed models (DeepSeek's directly supplied ones) go to DeepSeek under its terms (14 of 20). Clause 2.14 keeps data only as long as the service needs, with no periods stated. When a customer asks for generated content without AI labels, Tencent Cloud keeps logs of who received it for at least six months. No zero-retention option was found (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs (request ID, key, client IP, status, tokens, latency) and optional full call logs go to the customer's CLS, billed separately, with usage by key and a monitoring dashboard (14 of 15). No security.txt on cloud.tencent.com, www.tencent.com or tokenhub.tencentmaas.com (404). Tencent's bug bounty through TSRC lists Tencent Cloud in scope. No certification for TokenHub was checked (10 of 20).\n\n### Reliability: MiniMax API +29\n\n- MiniMax API (75): Atlassian Statuspage at status.minimax.io with a Large Language Models component (20). Its history feed holds the last 25 incidents, 13 to 19 October 2026. 23 are 'Elevated errors on Large Language Models', each resolved within 1 to 41 minutes, and none lasted an hour. That is minor only on what we could read, though frequent, and the earlier part of the 90 days wasn't readable because robots.txt disallows the incidents API (20). The rate-limits page publishes 200 requests and 10,000,000 tokens a minute for M3.1 Flash and M3 (15). The Anthropic-format OpenAPI file documents 429 for rate limits and 529 as an overload that can be retried, and the error-code page says to retry later on 1002, with no Retry-After header or backoff schedule found (10). No SLA found (0). M3.1 Flash and M3 are generally available, and the Preview name was retired on launch day (10). Total 75.\n- Tencent Cloud TokenHub (46): Hosted reading. No public status page was found. status.cloud.tencent.com did not answer and the Tencent Cloud health dashboard documentation answered with a bot check (0). With no page there is no incident record to read (5 of 30). The announcements carry one incident, DeepSeek's directly supplied models unavailable from 9:06 to 13:04 Beijing time on 15 October 2026 after a fault at DeepSeek, compensated with vouchers. Rate limits are per model, shown in the console and returned by DescribeModelQuota. The public docs give numbers only for batch jobs (20 created a minute, 10 active), image models (5 concurrent) and DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro (2,500 and 500 concurrent), with the rules for self-serve increases (8 of 15). Six 429 codes separate RPM, TPM, TPD, concurrency and upstream capacity, 429s may carry `Retry-After` and the docs advise exponential backoff. No idempotency guidance, though inference calls are not writes (13 of 15). The TokenHub SLA promises 99.5% monthly availability with vouchers of 10, 25 or 50 per cent of the month's fee. It excludes free use and third-party deployed models such as DeepSeek's directly supplied ones (10). Generally available since 7 April 2026, with some models marked preview (10).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Tencent Cloud TokenHub +28\n\n- MiniMax API (45): Model reading. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash shipped on 19 October 2026, dated on the model release page (30). No stated notice policy. The M2.5 and M2.7 families closed to new users on 19 October and retire on 18 November, 30 days later, and from 19 October M Plan and Token Plan requests to them are served by M3.1 Flash under the old names. We couldn't find when that notice was first posted (3 of 12). Churn is high. M2.5 (February 2026) and M2.7 (March 2026) retire within nine months of release, M2.1 and M2 are already retired, and the model list calls M2.5 and M2.7 retired while the notice on the same page gives 18 November (2 of 8). A dated release page, support email addresses on the contact and model pages, a Discord server and GitHub issues on the model repositories. We didn't test whether they answer (10 of 15). No official SDK (0 of 15, 0 of 10). Total 45.\n- Tencent Cloud TokenHub (73): Closed service, read on the model lines. The newest release note is dated 24 October 2026 and the price page was updated on 31 October (30). The four retirement notices read gave 21 to 33 days, and eligible callers are switched to a successor at its price. No minimum notice period is written, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (directly supplied) was moved to the 1017 version under the same ids on 17 October 2026 in a notice dated two days later (7 of 12). 18 retirement notices from 21 April to 22 October 2026, 12 of them since 3 August (3 of 8). Dated release notes and announcements, ticket and phone support around the clock and a Q\u0026A community (13 of 15). Replies on the THCLI repository were not sampled (3 of 10). Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 in several languages covers the control plane and `tencent-tokenhub-cli` 1.0.2 was published on 30 October 2026. No inference SDK of its own (12 of 15). The CLI has four releases since 15 September 2026, lists no runtime dependencies and needs Node.js 18 or later. CI not checked (5 of 10).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Tencent Cloud TokenHub +24\n\n- MiniMax API (59): Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Tool use on all three formats, with `tool_choice` on the Anthropic format only (17 of 20). No JSON Schema output mode documented on any format (0 of 15). Caching is automatic, with cache reads at a tenth of the input price on M3.1 Flash and a token-count endpoint for sizing a request (15). 1,000,000-token context and up to 524,288 output tokens (15). No batch API found (0). No official SDK. The docs point to the Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs and the AI SDK (0). Typed error bodies with a request id on the Anthropic format and a code table, though `stop_sequences` is ignored without an error (12 of 15). M3.1 Flash can't turn thinking off and defaults to the deepest `effort`, which costs output tokens unless the caller lowers it. Total 59.\n- Tencent Cloud TokenHub (83): Router, read on the model lines. Function calling is marked on most chat models in the model list, with behaviour depending on the model routed (14 of 20). Structured output is marked per model and missing on the MiniMax and Qwen models, and an unsupported `response_format` returns code 400006 (12 of 15). Cache-hit prices are published per model, Kimi K3.1 Pro lists five-minute and one-hour cache writes, and a guide covers `prompt_cache_key` and the `X-Session-ID` header for instance affinity (14 of 15). Most listed chat models have contexts of one million tokens, a judgement call since a router has no default model (15). Batch at half price covers only Hy3 and Hy4 preview, reads and writes JSONL in the customer's own COS bucket and is documented for the Guangzhou endpoint (5 of 10). No TokenHub inference SDK. The OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a changed base URL, and Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 and the `thcli` CLI cover the control plane (8 of 10). Errors return a code, English and Chinese messages, the source, the upstream code and status and a request ID, and stream errors arrive as SSE error frames (15 of 15).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Tencent Cloud TokenHub +15\n\n- MiniMax API (20): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices for M3.1 Flash and M3 are published without a login (20). No free tier found for the text models (0). A person signs up in a browser and tops up a balance or buys an M Plan before the first call (0). Total 20.\n- Tencent Cloud TokenHub (35): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices for every model are public in CNY for Guangzhou and Singapore, with DeepSeek's peak and off-peak rates (20). Each account gets 1M free tokens per language model, valid for a year, in a campaign running to 31 December 2026. No card is mentioned, but the account needs real-name verification, so this line takes 15 of 20. A person signs up and completes real-name verification in a browser. Keys can then be created in code or by `thcli auth login`, but only from that account (0).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: MiniMax API +11\n\n- MiniMax API (65): Closed service with clear terms under Singapore law and SIAC arbitration. MiniMax-M3's weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence, which isn't an OSI licence and doesn't change the hosted service (15). The terms and privacy policy, both dated 30 March 2026, agree on the contracting entity, that inputs and outputs are processed and may be used to improve services, and that data sits in a United States data centre, but give no retention period and no DPA was read (10 of 30). A dated retirement notice for M2.5 and M2.7 and a retired-models table, undercut by the table contradicting the notice and API release notes a year stale (12 of 20). Data location stated as the United States and an EU representative named, with third parties named only by category (10 of 20). MiniMax publishes an EU AI Act training-data summary for M3. Total 47.\n- Tencent Cloud TokenHub (54): Closed service under the TokenHub Terms of Service (effective 14 September 2026), the SLA (23 April 2026), a special note on third-party deployed models and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, naming Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The CLI is Apache-2.0 (18 of 30). The terms and the FAQ agree that inputs are processed on the customer's instructions and not used for training, and clause 2.14 limits retention to what the service needs without periods. The TokenHub privacy policy on privacy.qq.com renders only with JavaScript and was not read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices, shutdown dates in the model list, a `pre-offline` status in `/v1/models` and a `DiscontinuedAt` field in the control API. Clause 6.3 refunds paid, unused tokens when a third-party model is removed. No minimum notice period is written (13 of 20). Clause 2.13 places processing generally in mainland China for the China site and in Singapore for the international site, and the third-party model list names DeepSeek's Hangzhou company with a link to its terms. No subprocessor list was found (13 of 20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax API | Tencent Cloud TokenHub | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 46 | MiniMax API +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 73 | MiniMax API +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 83 | Tencent Cloud TokenHub +24 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 71 | Tencent Cloud TokenHub +41 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Tencent Cloud TokenHub +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 73 | Tencent Cloud TokenHub +28 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 54 | MiniMax API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **59.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax API | Tencent Cloud TokenHub |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | Tencent Cloud |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.minimax.io` | `https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1` |\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 service under the TokenHub Terms of Service, the TokenHub SLA and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, with a special note for third-party deployed models. The `tencent-tokenhub-cli` package is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-24 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 493 stars | 204 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### MiniMax API\n\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Tencent Cloud TokenHub\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\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**Tencent Cloud TokenHub.** Keys can be limited to chosen models, source IPs and token quotas, errors name their source and code, and a 99.5% SLA covers paid use of models Tencent runs. Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification, prices are in CNY, no public status page was found, and 18 model retirement notices ran from April to 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### Tencent Cloud TokenHub\n\n1. Use `https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1` with keys made for Guangzhou and `https://tokenhub-intl.tencentmaas.com/v1` with keys made for Singapore. Keys do not work across the two\n2. Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer` on the OpenAI paths and as `x-api-key` on `/v1/messages`\n3. Parse `error.code` as a string or a number, since 429 codes can come back as integers, and wait for `Retry-After` before retrying\n4. Take model ids from `GET /v1/models` and watch for `pre-offline`. The quickstart's `deepseek-v3` example is not in the current model list\n5. Expect DeepSeek prices to double on weekdays from 9am to noon and 2pm to 6pm Beijing time, when the peak rate applies\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax API or Tencent Cloud TokenHub?\n\nTencent Cloud TokenHub scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.3 (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 Tencent Cloud TokenHub need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call MiniMax API and Tencent Cloud TokenHub without installing anything?\n\nYes. MiniMax API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Tencent Cloud TokenHub at https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-tencent-tokenhub.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-tencent-tokenhub.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-api\", \"b\": \"tencent-tokenhub\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare minimax-api tencent-tokenhub`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tencent-tokenhub.json\n\n## Other comparisons with MiniMax API or Tencent Cloud TokenHub\n\n- [Claude API vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- [Claude API vs Tencent Cloud TokenHub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-tencent-tokenhub.md)\n- [Antseed vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Tencent Cloud TokenHub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-tencent-tokenhub.md)\n- [Cerebras Inference vs MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-minimax-api.md)\n- [Cerebras Inference vs Tencent Cloud 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