MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD

MiniMax's studio-quality speech (its default voice). By MiniMax, on GridPup at $121 per million characters, paid from your GridPup balance per request. No subscription.

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Price

Made by: MiniMax
Price: $121 per million characters
Voices: 1
Languages: Read from the text

What it costs, roughly
A minute of speech (about 1,000 characters)	$0.12
A 10,000-word article read aloud (about 60,000 characters)	$7.25

Use it from your code

GridPup's API speaks OpenAI's format: use any OpenAI SDK with the base URL https://api.gridpup.com/v1/ai and a GridPup API key with Also use AI models. The answer tells you what it cost. More in the API docs.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.gridpup.com/v1/ai", api_key="gp_live_…")

r = client.audio.speech.create(
    model="minimax/speech-2.8-hd",
    input="Hello from GridPup.",
)
open("hello.wav", "wb").write(r.content)

Questions

How much does MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD cost?: $121 per million characters, charged per request from your prepaid balance. You need a small balance to start ($1 for most models); there is no monthly fee.
Who runs it?: MiniMax made MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD. GridPup serves it through Cloudflare's AI Gateway, so you use it with one GridPup balance instead of an account with MiniMax.
Does it work with the OpenAI SDK?: Yes: set base_url to https://api.gridpup.com/v1/ai and the model to minimax/speech-2.8-hd.

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