{ "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": "Soniox Voice Cloning scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design's 53.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "b": { "slug": "soniox-voice-cloning", "name": "Soniox Voice Cloning", "vendor": "Soniox", "vendorUrl": "https://soniox.com", "kind": "model", "category": "voice-cloning", "summary": "Instant clones for Soniox TTS from one reference clip of up to 2 minutes, made in the Console or with `POST /v1/voices`.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-voice-cloning", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-voice-cloning.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-voice-cloning.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/soniox-voice-cloning.json", "repo": "https://github.com/soniox/soniox-python", "license": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.soniox.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@soniox/node" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "soniox" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key. Voices belong to the project that created them, so use a key from the same project to create, list, recompute, delete or speak with them.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "No separate cloning fee is published. Speech from any voice is billed at the TTS token rates, $4.00 per 1M input text tokens and $21.50 per 1M output audio tokens, about $0.70 an hour. 20 voices per organisation by default (https://soniox.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or machine payment in the docs or pricing. Billed to a funded account (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12, "npmWeekly": 22200, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://soniox.com/docs/tts/concepts/voice-cloning", "llmsTxt": "https://soniox.com/docs/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "voice.clone", "speech.tts" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "llms-txt", "async-jobs" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 518, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 73, "schema": 61, "security": 53, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One API call and a clip of up to 2 minutes. No consent capture or speaker verification, and the terms say so.", "bestFor": "A quick clone that has to speak many languages, from a vendor with clean data terms.", "strengths": [ "One API call and a clip of up to 2 minutes", "Clones speak all 60+ TTS languages", "Audio never used for training, and clips stay only until the voice is deleted", "Stable `error_type` slugs that say which errors to retry", "SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 stated" ], "weaknesses": [ "No consent capture or speaker verification, and the terms say so", "Instant clones only, no professional tier or voice design", "20 voices per organisation and 3 concurrent TTS requests by default", "Voices must be recomputed by hand after a new TTS model ships", "No public OpenAPI file and no free tier" ], "agentNotes": [ "Poll the voice until the target model's status is `ready` before using it in TTS", "On `voice_not_prepared` call recompute, don't retry the TTS request", "Don't retry `voice_failed` even though it's a 503. Create a new voice from a better clip", "Use a key from the project that owns the voice, voices are per project", "Keep the clip under 2 minutes and 35 MB, longer fails with `voice_audio_too_long`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 73, "schema": 61, "security": 53, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 81 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.soniox.com/v1/voices -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SONIOX_API_KEY\" \\\n -F name=narrator -F file=@sample.wav" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.clone", "tool": "https://letme.dev/soniox-voice-cloning" }, "sameCompany": [ "soniox-stt", "soniox-tts" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Speech from a cloned voice", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0117, "note": "same TTS token rates as built-in voices, Soniox's estimate of $0.70 an hour" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Soniox Inc.", "domain": "soniox.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-03-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://soniox.com/policies/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://soniox.com/policies/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.soniox.com", "changelog": "https://soniox.com/docs/tts/models", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Terms and privacy policy last updated 2026-06-29. The company address is Foster City, California" ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-voice-cloning.json", "live": { "slug": "soniox-voice-cloning", "probe": { "target": "https://api.soniox.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:37.594099544Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 215, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 84, "p95ms24h": 187, "samples24h": 260, "samples30d": 2303, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 117, "ok": 117 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.soniox.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:11.78881253Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@soniox/node", "version": "2.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:58.480550534Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "soniox", "version": "2.10.0", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:58.895958653Z" } ], "githubStars": 12, "npmWeekly": 26231, "pypiWeekly": 124290, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://soniox.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:50.110847376Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://soniox.com/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:56.59522132Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "soniox.com", "registered": "2020-03-23", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/soniox.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:00.531232044Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:37.594099544Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "Soniox", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.minimax.io", "b": "https://api.soniox.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$60 per 1M characters", "b": "$0.0117 per minute of audio", "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": "2026-08-11", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-06-29", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-06-29", "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": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "377 npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk", "b": "12 stars, 22k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Soniox Voice Cloning scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design's 53.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design or Soniox Voice Cloning?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and Soniox Voice Cloning need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Soniox Voice Cloning at https://api.soniox.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and Soniox Voice Cloning without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 61" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "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": [ "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 56", "Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 39", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 45 against 38", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 53" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A quick clone that has to speak many languages, from a vendor with clean data terms.", "slug": "soniox-voice-cloning", "watchFor": "No consent capture or speaker verification, and the terms say so" } ], "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-soniox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP vs Soniox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-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": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Murf Voice Cloning API vs Soniox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-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/resemble-ai-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Resemble AI Voice Cloning API vs Soniox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resemble-ai-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soniox-voice-cloning-vs-speechify-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Soniox Voice Cloning vs Speechify API Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soniox-voice-cloning-vs-speechify-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soniox-voice-cloning-vs-ultravox-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Soniox Voice Cloning vs Ultravox Voice Cloning", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soniox-voice-cloning-vs-ultravox-voice-cloning" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 3, "edge": "soniox-voice-cloning", "key": "reliability", "minimax-voice-cloning": 70, "name": "Reliability", "soniox-voice-cloning": 73, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "minimax-voice-cloning", "key": "schema", "minimax-voice-cloning": 78, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "soniox-voice-cloning": 61, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "soniox-voice-cloning", "key": "ergonomics", "minimax-voice-cloning": 56, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "soniox-voice-cloning": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "soniox-voice-cloning", "key": "security", "minimax-voice-cloning": 39, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "soniox-voice-cloning": 53, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "minimax-voice-cloning": 20, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "soniox-voice-cloning": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "soniox-voice-cloning", "key": "maintenance", "minimax-voice-cloning": 38, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "soniox-voice-cloning": 45, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "soniox-voice-cloning", "key": "transparency", "minimax-voice-cloning": 53, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "soniox-voice-cloning": 71, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Soniox Voice Cloning scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design's 53.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design leads on schema \u0026 documentation. 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.", "soniox-voice-cloning": "One API call and a clip of up to 2 minutes. No consent capture or speaker verification, and the terms say so." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.min.md" }, "markdown": "Soniox Voice Cloning scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design's 53.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design leads on schema \u0026 documentation. 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- Soniox Voice Cloning: grade C, 58.6/100, rank #518 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-voice-cloning.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/soniox-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- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\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### Soniox Voice Cloning (C)\n\nGood for: A quick clone that has to speak many languages, from a vendor with clean data terms.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 39\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 45 against 38\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 53\n\nWatch for: No consent capture or speaker verification, and the terms say so\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design | Soniox Voice Cloning | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 73 | Soniox Voice Cloning +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 61 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 75 | Soniox Voice Cloning +19 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 53 | Soniox Voice Cloning +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 38 | 45 | Soniox Voice Cloning +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 71 | Soniox Voice Cloning +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.1 · D** | **58.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design | Soniox Voice Cloning |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | Soniox |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.minimax.io` | `https://api.soniox.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for voice clone | $60 per 1M characters | $0.0117 per minute of audio |\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 | 2026-08-11 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-06-29 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-06-29 |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 377 npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk | 12 stars, 22k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (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**Soniox Voice Cloning.** One API call and a clip of up to 2 minutes. No consent capture or speaker verification, and the terms say so.\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### Soniox Voice Cloning\n\n1. Poll the voice until the target model's status is `ready` before using it in TTS\n2. On `voice_not_prepared` call recompute, don't retry the TTS request\n3. Don't retry `voice_failed` even though it's a 503. Create a new voice from a better clip\n4. Use a key from the project that owns the voice, voices are per project\n5. Keep the clip under 2 minutes and 35 MB, longer fails with `voice_audio_too_long`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design or Soniox Voice Cloning?\n\nSoniox Voice Cloning scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design's 53.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design leads on schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Do MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and Soniox Voice Cloning need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design and Soniox Voice Cloning without installing anything?\n\nYes. MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design has a hosted endpoint at https://api.minimax.io and Soniox Voice Cloning at https://api.soniox.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-voice-cloning-vs-soniox-voice-cloning.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-voice-cloning\", \"b\": \"soniox-voice-cloning\"}`. 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