Prerequisites

1

Register or Login

Access MiniMax API Platform, register or login .

2

Create an API Key

Pay-as-you-go：Visit API Keys > Create new secret key to get your API Key
Pay-as-you-go supports all modality models, including Text, Video, Speech, and Image.
Token Plan：Visit API Keys > Create Token Plan Key to get your API Key
Token Plan supports MiniMax models of all modalities. See Token Plan Overview for details.

After generating an API key, we recommend you export it as an environment variable in terminal or save it to a .env file.

# Compatible Anthropic API (Recommended)
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.minimax.io/anthropic
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=${YOUR_API_KEY}

3

Recharge Account

Access Billing/Balance page to top up if needed.