Prerequisites

Get a Key

Pay-as-you-go：Visit API Keys > Create new secret key to get your API Key
Pay-as-you-go supports all modality models, including language, Video, Speech, and Image.
M Plan：Visit Billing > M Plan to view your Subscription Key
The Subscription Key is used for M Plan subscriptions and purchased Credits. It can exist before paid resources are available, and becomes usable when you have an M Plan seat or Credits access. See M Plan Overview for details.

After generating an API Key, we recommend you export it as an environment variable in terminal or save it to a .env file:

Compatible Anthropic API (Recommended), see: Anthropic SDK

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.minimax.io/anthropic
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=${YOUR_API_KEY}

Compatible OpenAI API, see: OpenAI SDK

export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.minimax.io/v1
export OPENAI_API_KEY=${YOUR_API_KEY}