MiniMax Music 1.5 API

minimax/music-1.5
MiniMax Music 1.5 is a powerful and versatile generative AI music model designed to democratize professional music creation.
Output
$0.03 / gen
Released
Dec 5, 2025

Overview

MiniMax Music 1.5 API Overview

MiniMax Music 1.5 creates complete, original songs up to 4 minutes long. This advanced AI model transforms your text prompts and optional reference audio into full musical pieces. It produces high-fidelity compositions featuring natural vocals, ethnic instruments, and live-style arrangements. The model supports custom lyrics and generates music across diverse genres and multicultural styles, making it ideal for use in soundtracks, video content, advertising, and professional music production.

Technical Specifications

  • Maximum output length: Approximately 4 minutes per generation.
  • Input: Text prompts describing music style, mood, lyrics (optional), and optional reference audio.
  • Model architecture: Advanced multimodal deep learning combining text understanding with audio generation pipelines.
  • Languages supported for lyrics: Primarily English and Chinese, with potential multilingual extensions.

Performance Benchmarks

  • Produces coherent, emotionally expressive songs with smooth transitions and rich instrumental layers.
  • Vocal synthesis achieves high realism with clear timbre and expressive nuances surpassing previous model versions.
  • Demonstrated versatility across multiple music genres with culturally authentic instrument sounds.
  • Generation time optimized to support interactive and production workflows.
  • Outperforms comparable models in maintaining style consistency when guided by reference audio.

Key Features

  • Natural vocals: Synthesizes expressive, smooth, and natural singing voices alongside instrumental accompaniment.
  • Multi-genre support: Covers genres including pop, rock, jazz, classical, electronic, R&B, and ethnic music with authentic instrumentation.
  • Custom lyrics integration: Supports adding user-provided lyrics to generate matching melodies and vocal delivery.
  • Multilingual & multicultural styles: Handles lyrics in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, and accommodates various cultural music styles.
  • Reference audio guidance: Accepts reference tracks to influence style, tempo, and arrangement for consistent personalized outputs.
  • Fine-grained control: Allows control over style, mood, emotional expression, and segment-level song structure via text prompts.
  • High audio quality: Produces studio-grade audio ready for commercial use.

MiniMax Music 1.5 API Pricing

  • $0.039 per music generation (up to 4 minutes)

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Generation Code Sample

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Comparison with Other Models

vs Suno AI: MiniMax delivers more predictable and consistent full-length songs up to 4 minutes, with superior natural vocals guided by reference audio. Suno AI offers greater creative flexibility and dynamic style variation but with less predictable outcomes. MiniMax focuses on strong genre fidelity and vocal clarity, while Suno supports more experimental music generation styles.

vs Google Lyria 2: MiniMax excels in vocal expressiveness and ethnic instruments with clear song structure (Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Outro). Lyria 2 is praised for highly controllable, professional-grade instrumental music and nuanced creative controls like BPM and key signature. Lyria 2 targets producers needing deep customization primarily on instrumental music, while MiniMax offers end-to-end vocals and multi-genre coverage.

vs OpenAI Jukebox: MiniMax generates polished, studio-quality songs with focused vocal and instrumental clarity within 4 minutes, supporting user lyrics input. OpenAI Jukebox produces diverse stylistic music samples but struggles with long coherent song structure and natural vocal quality. MiniMax provides more refined and commercially usable audio, while Jukebox is better for creative explorations and genre experiments.

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Use cases

  • Soundtrack production: Film, TV, and game music requiring high-quality original compositions.
  • Video content: Background music for YouTube, social media, and corporate videos.
  • Music creation: Virtual idols, demo tracks, and professional songwriting assistance.
  • Advertising & branding: Custom music for commercials, corporate identity, and events.
  • Education & training: Music for language learning, practice, and creative workshops.
  • Interactive media: Game sound effects and real-time music generation.

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How to use MiniMax Music 1.5 API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to minimax/music-1.5.
import requests, time

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}
job = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/generate/audio",
    headers=headers,
    json={
      "model": "minimax/music-1.5",
      "prompt": "Upbeat lofi background music"
    },
).json()
gid = job["generation_id"]

while True:
    res = requests.get(f"https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/generate/audio?generation_id={gid}", headers=headers).json()
    if res.get("status") in ("completed", "error", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(3)
print(res)
const headers = {
  Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
};
const job = await (await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/generate/audio", {
  method: "POST",
  headers,
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "minimax/music-1.5",
    "prompt": "Upbeat lofi background music"
  }),
})).json();

let res;
do {
  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 3000));
  res = await (await fetch(`https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/generate/audio?generation_id=${job.generation_id}`, { headers })).json();
} while (!["completed", "error", "failed"].includes(res.status));
console.log(res);
# submit the job — the response contains "generation_id"
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/generate/audio \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"minimax/music-1.5","prompt":"Upbeat lofi background music"}'

# then poll for the result until it is ready
curl "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/generate/audio?generation_id={generation_id}" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY"

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

MiniMax Music 1.5 API Pricing

TypePrice
Output
$0.03 / gen

MiniMax Music 1.5 vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
$0.03 / gen
Audio generation
$100 / 1M characters
$130 / 1M
Speech synthesis
$100 / 1M characters
$0.13 / 1M tokens
Speech synthesis
$60 / 1M characters
$0.078 / 1M tokens
Speech synthesis
$10 / 1M characters
$0.013 / 1M tokens
Speech synthesis

Frequently asked questions

MiniMax Music 1.5 takes audio, text as input and returns audio.

MiniMax Music 1.5 became available on December 5, 2025.

MiniMax Music 1.5 is priced at $0.039 / gen.

MiniMax Music 1.5 is billed per generation — a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.

MiniMax Music 1.5 was built by MiniMax.

Send a request to v2/generate/audio with minimax/music-1.5 as the model id.

Yes. MiniMax Music 1.5 is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.

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