# MiniMax Audio review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Speech and music generation with voice cloning on monthly credit plans Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. MiniMax Audio is a web studio for generating speech and songs with MiniMax's Speech and Music models. Subscriptions give a monthly pool of credits and voice slots for cloning or designing voices, with a free tier that refills each month. The same models are also sold to developers through a separate pay-as-you-go API with its own price list. - **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech - **Made by:** MiniMax - **Website:** https://www.minimax.io/audio - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: about 12 minutes of speech a month. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, MiniMax Audio has a free plan, and paid plans start at $4.50 per month, billed annually ($5 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free: 10,000 credits a month (about 12 minutes of HD speech or 33 songs), 3 voice slots, standard generation speed. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 10K monthly credits, about 12 minutes of HD speech, 3 voice slots, limited long-text support. | | Starter | $4.50 per month, billed annually ($5 billed monthly) | 100K credits, about 120 minutes of HD speech, 10 voice slots, fast generation. | | Creator | $13 per month, billed annually ($17 billed monthly) | 330K credits, about 400 minutes of HD speech, 30 voice slots. | | Standard | $25 per month, billed annually ($38 billed monthly) | 750K credits, about 900 minutes of HD speech, 50 voice slots. | | Pro | $80 per month, billed annually ($150 billed monthly) | 3 million credits, about 3,600 minutes of HD speech, 250 voice slots. | Read from https://www.minimax.io/audio/subscribe on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MiniMax Audio before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing, up to 47% off** (Annual discount): The subscription page's Yearly toggle shows 10% to 47% off, for example Pro at $80 a month billed yearly ($960) against $150 monthly. Source: https://www.minimax.io/audio/subscribe ## Key features - **Speech models:** Speech 2.8, 2.6, 2.5 and 02 in Turbo and HD variants, across 40+ languages and accents. - **Voice cloning and design:** Voice slots hold cloned or designed voices; the count runs from 3 on Free to 250 on Pro. - **Music generation:** Music-3.0 and Music-2.6 generate songs from the same credit pool, about 33 a month on Free and 10,000 on Pro. - **Voice modifier and isolator:** The plan table lists a voice modifier and voice isolator among its advanced controls. - **Developer API and packages:** A separate platform site sells model pricing and audio packages for API use, outside these subscription plans. ## Good for - Creators who want speech and songs from one credit pool - Voice cloning on a low monthly budget - Developers who may later move to the pay-as-you-go API ## Worth knowing - The page opens on yearly pricing; monthly-billed prices are $5, $17, $38 and $150, and a subscription cancelled early is not refunded for the paid period. - Credits are a monthly allowance, and minutes shown are approximate for the HD model. - Commercial rights for songs depend on the plan and on when they were generated; the page has a separate FAQ on this. - API access is billed separately on the MiniMax platform site, not through these plans. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. MiniMax Audio makes speech and music with voice cloning from one pool of monthly credits, from $4.50 a month billed yearly. The free tier gives 10,000 credits, about 12 minutes of speech. API access is billed separately, and a subscription cancelled early is not refunded. - **Value for money: B.** Starter is $4.50 a month yearly ($5 monthly), inside the cheapest quarter. Creator $13, Standard $25, Pro $80. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 10,000 credits a month, about 12 minutes of HD speech or 33 songs, 3 voice slots and slower generation. Enough to try, not to run on. - **Features: B.** Speech in HD, songs, cloning and voice slots from 3 to 250. It covers the job, with minutes approximate and commercial rights for songs depending on plan and date. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Credits and voice slots are small things to learn in a web app. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. API access lives on the separate MiniMax platform site. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MiniMax's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. Its pricing page would not load as plain text here, so the grades rest on the listing. ## Where it stands among AI voice generators - MiniMax Audio's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 28 of the 43 other AI voice generators we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 32 of 43) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $4.50 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 3 of the 33 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace MiniMax Audio you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $54 a year. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/minimax-audio-vs-murf) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.minimax.io/audio/subscribe - https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/minimax-audio Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).