LLM Reference

MiniMax Speech 2.8

Released
2024-10-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 19d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use with conditions

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
Released
2024-10-01
Architecture
speech-synthesis
Specialization
text-to-speech
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use with conditions
Created by

Developing AI for gaming and entertainment.

Minhang, Shanghai, China
Founded 2021
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · Runware

About

MiniMax Speech 2.8 is MiniMax's MiniMax Speech model. It was released 2024-10-01.

MiniMax Speech 2.8 is a proprietary model in the MiniMax Speech family. The structured metadata tracks audio. This page tracks provider routes through Runware. Headline tracked benchmarks include Artificial Analysis TTS Arena ELO 1164.0.

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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
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.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
Artificial Analysis TTS Arena ELO1164.0arena-elo-hd-varianthttps://offlinetts.com/blog/tts-arena-leaderboard-2026/

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.