MiniMax Speech 2.8
Released
2024-10-01
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 108d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
MiniMax Speech 2.8 is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
- Family
- MiniMax Speech
- Released
- 2024-10-01
- Architecture
- Audio / Speech
- Specialization
- text-to-speech
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
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Cheapest of 1 route · Runware
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About
MiniMax Speech 2.8 is MiniMax's MiniMax Speech model. It was released 2024-10-01.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runware | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Audio
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(1)
Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis TTS Arena ELO | 1164.0 | arena-elo-hd-variantObserved 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Created by
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · Runware
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