MiniMax Speech 2.8
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
- Family
- MiniMax Speech
- Released
- 2024-10-01
- Architecture
- speech-synthesis
- Specialization
- text-to-speech
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use with conditions
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.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runware | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(1)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis TTS Arena ELO | 1164.0 | arena-elo-hd-variant | https://offlinetts.com/blog/tts-arena-leaderboard-2026/ |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · Runware