MiniMax Speech-to-Text
by MiniMax Model API in Speech-to-text
Nanonoble Pte. Ltd. · minimax.io since 2021 · status page · who's behind it
MiniMax's speech-to-text API transcribes audio files of up to 500 seconds with its asr-1.0 model in 20 languages, with optional streamed text output, speaker diarisation, segment timestamps and SRT or VTT subtitles.
Best for Cheap file transcription with diarisation and subtitles, strongest on Chinese and code-switched audio by the vendor's account.
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Assessment. MiniMax's ASR API has an OpenAPI file, typed error envelopes and a public price of $0.38 an hour, with diarisation and subtitle output. It takes files of up to 500 seconds only, allows 2 concurrent connections, has no free tier or status component, and no dated release.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Transport
- HTTP
- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Pay per use
- x402
- No
- Licence
- not stated
- Tools exposed
- 0
- Capabilities
- speech.stt speech.diarisation speech.languages
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- llms.txt
- published
From our research 6 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The speech-to-text endpoint at api.minimax.io/v1/speech_to_text, read from platform.minimax.io docs (guide, API reference, OpenAPI file, rate limits, pricing, release notes) and status.minimax.io history on 6 November 2026, with terms and privacy as read for minimax-voice-cloning on 4 November. No account was made and no request was sent
- Model
asr-1.0, the only public model. No release date was found- Languages
- 20, among them Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Turkish. Without
languagethe model detects the dominant language and handles Chinese-English code-switching - Output
json(text, duration, trace ID),verbose_json(speaker count and per-segment speaker and timestamps),srtorvtt. Streaming works withjsononly- Audio
- wav, aiff, flac, alac, mp3, aac, opus or ogg in a container, up to 500 seconds and 50 MB. Raw PCM isn't accepted
- Same company
- MiniMax's text models (minimax-api), voice cloning (minimax-voice-cloning), video and speech synthesis (minimax-speech) are listed separately. MiniMax's MCP servers have no transcription tool
Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- OpenAPI 3.1 file with eight documented responses, and an error table with HTTP status, type and trigger
- $0.38 an hour of audio, published without a login
- Speaker diarisation, segment timestamps and SRT or VTT output from one call
- Automatic language detection with Chinese-English code-switching across 20 languages
Weaknesses
- Files only, up to 500 seconds and 50 MB; live audio input isn't supported
- 2 concurrent connections and paid accounts only, with no free allowance
- No status page component and no dated release of
asr-1.0 - Terms let MiniMax use inputs to improve its services, and no retention period for audio was found
Before you call it notes for agents
- Split recordings into pieces under 500 seconds before uploading, since longer audio returns 400
- Convert to mono 16 kHz or a compressed format to stay under 50 MB
- Use
verbose_jsonfor speakers and timestamps, andjsononly when streaming - Treat 402
insufficient_balance_erroras final and ask the user to top up - Use
https://api.minimaxi.comfor a mainland China account
Who's behind it provenance 82/100
- Legal entity namedNanonoble Pte. Ltd.20/20
- Domain ageminimax.io, registered 2021-03-27 (5 years)11/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainminimax.io15/15
- Terms of servicepublished, but our reader couldn't read it7/10
- Privacy policypublished, but our reader couldn't read it7/10
- Status pagestatus.minimax.io10/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtnot found0/10
- People named4 named with their role, 1 with a public profile10/10
- Support routeonly a general contact2/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service our reader couldn't read it
TL;DR Our reader couldn't read it, so nothing here is checked. The document is published and scores 7 of 10 until we can.
the page has 0 words of text without a browser, so the document is drawn by script or sits elsewhere.
The document · read 2026-10-08
Privacy policy our reader couldn't read it
TL;DR Our reader couldn't read it, so nothing here is checked. The document is published and scores 7 of 10 until we can.
the page has 0 words of text without a browser, so the document is drawn by script or sits elsewhere.
The document · read 2026-10-08
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
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 4 November 2026 from the document text the pages carry for the browser, as on the minimax-api listing. The 8 October reader recorded both pages as unreadable.
RDAP for minimax.io gives a registration date of 2021-03-27 and a transfer on 2025-01-31, as recorded on 8 October.
platform.minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 (per the 8 October check), 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 on 4 November. Model releases are dated on a separate page, whose newest speech model is Speech 2.8 (23 January 2026).
status.minimax.io/robots.txt disallows /api/, so incidents were read from the /history pages only.
firstReleased and lastRelease are left empty, since no dated release of asr-1.0 was found.
Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Yan JunjieFounder, chairman, CEO and CTO, MiniMax
- Yeyi YunCo-founder, executive director and COO, MiniMax
- Zhou YucongCo-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax
- Zhao PengyuExecutive director and large language model research leader, MiniMax
MiniMax on LinkedIn @MiniMax_AI
Ownership Public company (HKEX: 00100)
Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Copied on 6 November 2026 from the minimax-voice-cloning listing's humans file (checked 28 October 2026), since the company is the same. MiniMax's investor relations management page names four executive directors, the founder and three others. Wikipedia's infobox names Yan Junjie, Yun Yeyi and Zhou Yucong as the founders. minimax.io/about names nobody. No page we read shows any of them with a photo. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 17:34 UTC
- Vendor status page all systems normal, All Systems Operational · 5 minutes ago
- security.txt none · 1 hour ago
- llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/minimax-stt.json
Notable
POST https://api.minimax.io/v1/speech_to_texttakes a multipart file withmodel=asr-1.0. Audio over 500 seconds returns 400 and isn't truncated, and bodies over 50 MB return 413 sourcestream=truestreams text deltas over SSE for a whole uploaded file. Live audio input isn't supported, and the docs suggest client-side VAD for pseudo-streaming source- Limits of 2 concurrent connections and 30,000 audio seconds a minute, for paid accounts only source
- Errors use an OpenAI-style envelope with the real HTTP status, unlike the
base_respcodes on MiniMax's other speech APIs source - The status page has components for LLM, Text-to-Speech and Video Generation, and none for speech to text source
- Neither the model release notes nor the API release notes mention
asr-1.0source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 | 16%20 | 9.4 | |
Atlassian Statuspage at status.minimax.io with component history, but its components are LLM, Text-to-Speech and Video Generation, with none for speech to text (10 of 20). With no component, the history holds no record for transcription (5). Limits published with numbers, 2 concurrent connections and 30,000 audio seconds a minute (15). 429 is documented as rate_limit_error, and the general error code page says to retry later, with no backoff figures or Retry-After (7 of 15). No SLA in the terms or docs (0). asr-1.0 is called the current public model with no beta label (10). 10 + 5 + 15 + 7 + 0 + 10 = 47. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 13.3 | |
OpenAPI 3.1 for /v1/speech_to_text, with eight documented responses (25). llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every page (10). The guide says when to stream, when to use verbose_json, and that subtitles and diarisation can't be combined with streaming (15 of 20). Typed multipart fields with an enum for response_format, and file limits stated in prose (12 of 15). Python examples and an error table giving HTTP status, error.type and trigger for 400, 401, 402, 413, 422, 429 and 500 (15). Versioned /v1 path, but neither release notes page mentions the ASR API, and the API notes stop at 28 October 2025 (5 of 15). Total 82. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 11.4 | |
API reading of the checklist. The default json returns only text, duration and a trace ID, with segments and subtitles opt-in (22 of 25). No lists to page. response_format and language are the output controls (12 of 20). Typed error envelopes with the real HTTP status, an error type and request_id, and 402 for an empty balance (18 of 20). Calls are synchronous with no idempotency key (10 of 20). Two fields, a model and a file. No official SDK, and MiniMax's MCP servers don't cover transcription (8 of 15). Total 70. | |||
| Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 5.8 | |
| Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of the least-privilege and injection lines. Plain API keys from the console with no scopes found, and the docs say publicly leaked keys may be disabled, as on minimax-voice-cloning (20 of 30). The terms (effective 30 March 2026), as read for minimax-voice-cloning on 4 November, let MiniMax use input and generated content to operate, maintain, develop and improve its services, with no opt-out found, and the privacy policy rules out only training to profile or target consumers (5 of 20). No retention period for uploaded audio or transcripts was found (3 of 15). Each response carries a trace ID, with no audit log found (5 of 15). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found, as on the other MiniMax listings (0 of 20). Total 33. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 2.5 | |
| No x402, MPP or L402 (0). $0.38 an hour published without a login (20). Speech to text is for paid accounts only (0). A person signs up in a browser and funds a balance (0). Total 20. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 0.5 | |
Read as a model. No dated release or change of asr-1.0 was found on the model or API release notes or the status page (0). No dated ASR entries in the last 90 days (0). Support by email and Discord, not tested (6 of 15). No official SDK, and the MCP servers have no transcription tool (0 of 15). No package to judge (0 of 10). Total 6. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 43, provenance 82checked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 5.5 | |
| Closed API with clear terms under Singapore law naming Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., as on the other MiniMax listings (15 of 30). The terms and privacy policy agree that inputs may be used to improve services and that data sits in a United States data centre, with no retention period for audio (8 of 30). No deprecation notice or policy touches the ASR API (10 of 20, for the dated notices elsewhere on the API release notes). Data location stated as the United States and an EU representative named, with third parties only by category (10 of 20). Total 43. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 48.4 · D | ||
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Graded 48.4 D methodology v0.7
Fix list 16 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on MiniMax Speech-to-Text. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
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What we couldn't check
- status.minimax.io/api/v2/components.json and incidents.json, which the host's robots.txt disallows, were fetched once by mistake on 6 November. Nothing from them is used; incidents and components were re-read from the allowed /history and home pages.
- unchecked: when
asr-1.0was released, since no dated page names it - unchecked: retention of uploaded audio and transcripts
- unchecked: whether failed transcriptions are billed
Sources 10
- llms.txt docs index platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- pricing overview platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- rate limits platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- model release notes platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- API release notes platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- status history status.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- terms and privacy, per the minimax-voice-cloning check platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-04
- speech-to-text guide platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- speech-to-text OpenAPI platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
- speech-to-text API reference platform.minimax.io · seen 2026-11-06
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Pay per use Pay per use $0.38 an hour of audio, pay as you go from a prepaid balance or through an M Plan subscription. Speech to text is for paid accounts only, with no free allowance.
Prices
| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| asr-1.0 | $0.0063 | per minute of audio | $0.38 an hour, paid accounts only |
Compared across listings on the price index.
What a task costs from the prices above
| Task | Cost | At |
|---|---|---|
| Transcribe a one-hour meeting60 minutes of recorded audio | $0.38 | asr-1.0 |
The quantity times this listing's own price, from its cheapest item in that unit to its dearest. Plans, minimums and free allowances aren't counted. Tasks across every listing.
Recent changes
- No changes recorded yet.
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Connect
First request
curl -X POST https://api.minimax.io/v1/speech_to_text \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MINIMAX_API_KEY" \
-F model=asr-1.0 -F file=@meeting.mp3 -F response_format=verbose_jsonAlternatives to MiniMax Speech-to-Text
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure AI Speech speech-to-text Microsoft | BB | 75.1 | speech.stt speech.diarisation speech.languages | no |
| OpenAI Speech to Text OpenAI | BB | 75 | speech.stt speech.diarisation speech.languages | no |
| Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) Deepgram | BB | 74.4 | speech.stt speech.diarisation speech.languages | no |
| Amazon Transcribe Amazon Web Services | BB | 73.6 | speech.stt speech.diarisation speech.languages | no |
| ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API ElevenLabs | BB | 73 | speech.stt speech.diarisation speech.languages | no |
| Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP Gladia | B | 69.8 | speech.stt speech.diarisation speech.languages | no |
Machine-readable
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