{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "minimax-voice-cloning", "name": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design", "vendor": "MiniMax", "vendorUrl": "https://www.minimax.io", "kind": "model", "category": "voice-cloning", "summary": "MiniMax's API clones a voice from a 10 second to 5 minute audio sample and designs voices from a text description. The resulting voice IDs work with its speech-2.8 text-to-speech models.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.json", "repo": "https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-MCP", "license": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. The two official MCP servers are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.minimax.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "minimax-mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "minimax-mcp-js" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key created in the platform console under Account, API Keys. No scopes were found in the docs. Voice cloning also needs individual or enterprise verification of the account, and an unverified account gets error 2038. Mainland China accounts use `https://api.minimaxi.com`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go from a prepaid balance. Rapid voice cloning $1.50 a voice and voice design $3 a voice, each charged when the voice is first used for synthesis. Speech from the voice is $100 per million characters on speech-2.8-hd and $60 on speech-2.8-turbo. Previews are billed per character. Audio subscriptions from $5 a month include 10 to 800 voice slots. No free allowance for cloning is published (https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$1.50 / tx", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing pages or the voice OpenAPI files. Prepaid balance top-up (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 377, "pypiWeekly": 1532, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/speech-voice-clone", "llmsTxt": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/speech/voice-cloning/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "voice.clone", "voice.design", "speech.tts" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "python", "typescript", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 640, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 78, "security": 39, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Typed OpenAPI files, published prices of $1.50 a cloned voice and $3 a designed voice, and optional transcript and watermark checks. Cloning needs individual or enterprise account verification, the terms and privacy policy could not be read without a browser, and no statement on training with uploaded voice audio was found in the docs.", "bestFor": "Teams already using MiniMax speech models that want quick clones or prompt-designed voices at a flat fee per voice across 40 languages.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 files for clone, upload, design, list and delete, with llms.txt and Markdown copies of every docs page", "A cloned voice costs $1.50 and a designed voice $3, charged on first synthesis and not at creation", "Rate limits are published, 60 requests a minute for cloning and 20 for voice design", "Optional `text_validation` rejects a sample whose speech does not match an expected transcript, and `aigc_watermark` adds a watermark tone to the preview", "`POST /v1/delete_voice` removes a cloned or designed voice, and unused voices are deleted after 7 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "The terms of service and privacy policy render only in a browser, so voice ownership, training use and retention terms were not read", "No field records the speaker's consent. The documented gate is individual or enterprise verification of the account", "The voice design reference prices preview audio at $30 per million characters and the pricing page at $60", "The API release notes stop at 28 October 2025 and omit `text_validation` and `aigc_watermark`", "No security.txt, bug bounty or certification found, and no SLA in the docs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Upload the sample to `POST /v1/files/upload` with `purpose=voice_clone`, then pass the integer `file_id` and a new `voice_id` of 8 to 256 characters to `POST /v1/voice_clone`", "Synthesise once with T2A within 7 days or the voice is deleted. A preview inside the clone call does not count", "Read `base_resp.status_code` on every response. Errors such as 2038 (no cloning permission) and 2039 (duplicate `voice_id`) arrive in the body", "Voice design returns `trial_audio` as hex in the JSON body. Write it to a file and keep it out of the model context", "Send `voice_type` to `POST /v1/get_voice`, because `all` also returns the 300+ system voices" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 78, "security": 39, "transparency": 25 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --location 'https://api.minimax.io/v1/voice_clone' \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $MINIMAX_API_KEY\" \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"file_id\": 123456789, \"voice_id\": \"MiniMax001\"}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "MiniMax": { "args": [ "minimax-mcp", "-y" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "MINIMAX_API_HOST": "https://api.minimax.io", "MINIMAX_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.clone", "tool": "https://letme.dev/minimax-voice-cloning" }, "sameCompany": [ "minimax-video" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Rapid voice clone", "unit": "tx", "usd": 1.5, "note": "per voice, charged on first synthesis" }, { "item": "Voice design", "unit": "tx", "usd": 3, "note": "per voice, charged on first synthesis" }, { "item": "Speech from a clone, speech-2.8-hd", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 100 }, { "item": "Speech from a clone, speech-2.8-turbo", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 60 } ], "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/apis", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The legal entity is carried from the 30 September 2026 check recorded on our MiniMax Video API listing. The terms page that would name it renders only in a browser and was not read on 8 October.", "The terms of service, privacy policy and paid agreement at platform.minimax.io/protocol/ return a page with no document text to a plain reader.", "RDAP for minimax.io gives a registration date of 2021-03-27 and a transfer on 2025-01-31.", "platform.minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and www.minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt redirects to the home page.", "The API release notes page has no entry after 28 October 2025. Model releases are dated on a separate page." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.json", "live": { "slug": "minimax-voice-cloning", "probe": { "target": "https://api.minimax.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:30.078871086Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 171, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 289, "p95ms24h": 567, "samples24h": 36, "samples30d": 36, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 36, "ok": 36 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.minimax.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:03:48.93092331Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:03:48.93092331Z" } }, "answer": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against PlayHT Voice Cloning API's 3.9 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "playht-voice-cloning", "name": "PlayHT Voice Cloning API", "vendor": "PlayHT", "vendorUrl": "https://play.ht", "kind": "model", "category": "voice-cloning", "summary": "Discontinued PlayHT service for creating voices from uploaded audio samples.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/playht-voice-cloning.json", "repo": "https://github.com/playht/pyht", "license": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.play.ht/api/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "playht" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "pyht" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Two headers, `X-USER-ID` and `AUTHORIZATION` with the secret key, both from the dashboard. The endpoints no longer answer.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Cloning was sold inside PlayHT's API and Studio plans, with custom cloning terms on Enterprise. Per-clone prices couldn't be recovered from a primary source (https://web.archive.org/web/20250625003728/https://play.ht/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Service shut down. No x402 or machine payment was ever documented (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 218, "npmWeekly": 14219, "pypiWeekly": 6561, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.play.ht/reference/api-create-instant-voice-clone", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.play.ht/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "voice.clone", "speech.tts" ], "tags": [ "closed-source", "retired", "python", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2025-05-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 3.9, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "Shut down 2025-12-31, so out of the ranking", "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 0, "reliability": 0, "schema": 31, "security": 0, "transparency": 33 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-01. docs.play.ht still documents `POST /api/v2/cloned-voices/instant` with no shutdown notice, and play.ht served its old marketing page, while api.play.ht doesn't resolve and the platform closed on 2025-12-31. An endpoint removed while still advertised. https://docs.play.ht/reference/api-create-instant-voice-clone and https://inworld.ai/resources/migrate-from-playht" ], "verdict": "The API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht, useful for mapping old integrations. Shut down, api.play.ht doesn't resolve.", "strengths": [ "The API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht, useful for mapping old integrations", "SDKs remain on GitHub under Apache-2.0", "The reference lists each response code, including 415 for unsupported audio and 429 for rate limits" ], "weaknesses": [ "Shut down, api.play.ht doesn't resolve", "Cloned voices reportedly deleted at shutdown with no export", "Docs and marketing pages still advertise the API with no shutdown notice", "No consent or verification step was ever in the API" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't call `api.play.ht`. The host doesn't resolve", "Ignore docs.play.ht for new work. It documents an API that no longer exists", "Re-create voices with another vendor from the original recordings, the clones can't be recovered" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 3.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 0, "reliability": 0, "schema": 31, "security": 0, "transparency": 5 }, "provenanceScore": 60 }, "connect": { "http": "# Retired. api.play.ht no longer resolves.\ncurl -X POST https://api.play.ht/api/v2/cloned-voices/instant -H \"X-USER-ID: $PLAYHT_USER_ID\" -H \"AUTHORIZATION: $PLAYHT_API_KEY\" \\\n -F sample_file=@sample.wav -F voice_name=support-voice" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.clone", "tool": "https://letme.dev/playht-voice-cloning" }, "sameCompany": [ "playht-tts" ], "area": "voice", "retired": "2025-12-31", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "PlayHT, Inc.", "domain": "play.ht", "domainRegistered": "2016-11-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250222123504/https://play.ht/terms/", "privacy": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250202131353/https://play.ht/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "On 2026-10-01 api.play.ht didn't resolve, while play.ht and docs.play.ht still served old marketing and API reference pages with no shutdown notice", "Terms and privacy links point to Internet Archive copies from February 2025" ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "PlayHT", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.minimax.io", "b": "https://api.play.ht/api/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$60 per 1M characters", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for voice clone" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. The two official MCP servers are MIT", "b": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "8", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-21", "b": "2025-05-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2023-06-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2021-06-19", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "377 npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk", "b": "218 stars, 14k npm/wk, 6.6k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against PlayHT Voice Cloning API's 3.9 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design or PlayHT Voice Cloning API?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and PlayHT Voice Cloning API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and PlayHT Voice Cloning API at https://api.play.ht/api/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and PlayHT Voice Cloning API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 0", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 31", "Agent ergonomics, 56 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 39 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 38 against 0", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 33" ], "also": [ "Still running. PlayHT Voice Cloning API has shut down", "Runs on your own machine", "No incidents deducted, where PlayHT Voice Cloning API loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams already using MiniMax speech models that want quick clones or prompt-designed voices at a flat fee per voice across 40 languages.", "slug": "minimax-voice-cloning", "watchFor": "The terms of service and privacy policy render only in a browser, so voice ownership, training use and retention terms were not read" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Nothing new. It shut down on 2025-12-31.", "slug": "playht-voice-cloning", "watchFor": "Shut down, api.play.ht doesn't resolve" } ], "job": { "capability": "voice.clone", "name": "Voice clone" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP vs MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP vs PlayHT Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.json", "title": "ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API vs MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.json", "title": "ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API vs PlayHT Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Fish Audio Voice Cloning API vs MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Fish Audio Voice Cloning API vs PlayHT Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP vs MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP vs PlayHT Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-murf-voice-cloning.json", "title": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design vs Murf Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-murf-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-resemble-ai-voice-cloning.json", "title": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design vs Resemble AI Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-resemble-ai-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design vs Soniox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-speechify-voice-cloning.json", "title": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design vs Speechify API Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-speechify-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-ultravox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design vs Ultravox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-ultravox-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Murf Voice Cloning API vs PlayHT Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-resemble-ai-voice-cloning.json", "title": "PlayHT Voice Cloning API vs Resemble AI Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-resemble-ai-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "PlayHT Voice Cloning API vs Soniox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-speechify-voice-cloning.json", "title": "PlayHT Voice Cloning API vs Speechify API Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-speechify-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-ultravox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "PlayHT Voice Cloning API vs Ultravox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-voice-cloning-vs-ultravox-voice-cloning" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 70, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "reliability", "minimax-voice-cloning": 70, "name": "Reliability", "playht-voice-cloning": 0, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 47, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "schema", "minimax-voice-cloning": 78, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "playht-voice-cloning": 31, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 56, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "ergonomics", "minimax-voice-cloning": 56, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "playht-voice-cloning": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 39, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "security", "minimax-voice-cloning": 39, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "playht-voice-cloning": 0, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "payments", "minimax-voice-cloning": 20, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "playht-voice-cloning": 0, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 38, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "maintenance", "minimax-voice-cloning": 38, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "playht-voice-cloning": 0, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "transparency", "minimax-voice-cloning": 53, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "playht-voice-cloning": 33, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "PlayHT Voice Cloning API shut down on 2025-12-31. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against PlayHT Voice Cloning API's 3.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do voice clone.", "verdicts": { "minimax-voice-cloning": "Typed OpenAPI files, published prices of $1.50 a cloned voice and $3 a designed voice, and optional transcript and watermark checks. Cloning needs individual or enterprise account verification, the terms and privacy policy could not be read without a browser, and no statement on training with uploaded voice audio was found in the docs.", "playht-voice-cloning": "The API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht, useful for mapping old integrations. Shut down, api.play.ht doesn't resolve." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.min.md" }, "markdown": "PlayHT Voice Cloning API shut down on 2025-12-31. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against PlayHT Voice Cloning API's 3.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do voice clone.\n\n- MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design: grade D, 53.1/100, rank #640 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.json\n- PlayHT Voice Cloning API: grade F, 3.9/100, rank retired, not ranked. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/playht-voice-cloning.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design (D)\n\nGood for: Teams already using MiniMax speech models that want quick clones or prompt-designed voices at a flat fee per voice across 40 languages.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 0\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 31\n- Agent ergonomics, 56 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 39 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 38 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 33\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Still running. PlayHT Voice Cloning API has shut down\n- Runs on your own machine\n- No incidents deducted, where PlayHT Voice Cloning API loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: The terms of service and privacy policy render only in a browser, so voice ownership, training use and retention terms were not read\n\n### PlayHT Voice Cloning API (F)\n\nGood for: Nothing new. It shut down on 2025-12-31.\n\nWatch for: Shut down, api.play.ht doesn't resolve\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design | PlayHT Voice Cloning API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 0 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +70 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 31 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +47 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 0 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +56 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 0 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +39 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 0 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 38 | 0 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +38 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 33 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.1 · D** | **3.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design | PlayHT Voice Cloning API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | PlayHT |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.minimax.io` | `https://api.play.ht/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| Price for voice clone | $60 per 1M characters | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. The two official MCP servers are MIT | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK) |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2025-05-21 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2023-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2021-06-19 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | 377 npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk | 218 stars, 14k npm/wk, 6.6k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 1/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design.** Typed OpenAPI files, published prices of $1.50 a cloned voice and $3 a designed voice, and optional transcript and watermark checks. Cloning needs individual or enterprise account verification, the terms and privacy policy could not be read without a browser, and no statement on training with uploaded voice audio was found in the docs.\n\n**PlayHT Voice Cloning API.** The API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht, useful for mapping old integrations. Shut down, api.play.ht doesn't resolve.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design\n\n1. Upload the sample to `POST /v1/files/upload` with `purpose=voice_clone`, then pass the integer `file_id` and a new `voice_id` of 8 to 256 characters to `POST /v1/voice_clone`\n2. Synthesise once with T2A within 7 days or the voice is deleted. A preview inside the clone call does not count\n3. Read `base_resp.status_code` on every response. Errors such as 2038 (no cloning permission) and 2039 (duplicate `voice_id`) arrive in the body\n4. Voice design returns `trial_audio` as hex in the JSON body. Write it to a file and keep it out of the model context\n5. Send `voice_type` to `POST /v1/get_voice`, because `all` also returns the 300+ system voices\n\n### PlayHT Voice Cloning API\n\n1. Don't call `api.play.ht`. The host doesn't resolve\n2. Ignore docs.play.ht for new work. It documents an API that no longer exists\n3. Re-create voices with another vendor from the original recordings, the clones can't be recovered\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design or PlayHT Voice Cloning API?\n\nMiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against PlayHT Voice Cloning API's 3.9 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and PlayHT Voice Cloning API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and PlayHT Voice Cloning API without installing anything?\n\nYes. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and PlayHT Voice Cloning API at https://api.play.ht/api/v2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-playht-voice-cloning.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-voice-cloning\", \"b\": \"playht-voice-cloning\"}`. 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