# MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design vs PlayHT Voice Cloning API (slim)

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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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.

- MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design: D 53.1, rank #640 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.min.md
- PlayHT Voice Cloning API: F 3.9, rank retired, not ranked · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.min.md
- MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design, good for Teams already using MiniMax speech models that want quick clones or prompt-designed voices at a flat fee per voice across 40 languages. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 0; Schema & documentation, 78 against 31; Agent ergonomics, 56 against 0; Security & auth, 39 against 0; Payments & pricing, 20 against 0; Maintenance & community, 38 against 0; Transparency & 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.
- PlayHT Voice Cloning API, good for Nothing new. It shut down on 2025-12-31.

| Category | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design | PlayHT Voice Cloning API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 0 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 31 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 0 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 39 | 0 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 38 | 0 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 53 | 33 |

| Fact (where they differ) | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design | PlayHT Voice Cloning API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | MiniMax | PlayHT |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.minimax.io` | `https://api.play.ht/api/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Price for voice clone | $60 per 1M characters | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. The two official MCP servers are MIT | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK) |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2025-05-21 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2023-06-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2021-06-19 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 377 npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk | 218 stars, 14k npm/wk, 6.6k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 1/5 (2) |