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MiniMax pricing in the UK
MiniMax sells its M Plan to buyers in the UK in US dollars before tax: Free, then Go, Explore and Build, each for one person. There is no team or per-seat plan. One plan covers MiniMax Code and a key for tools such as Claude Code and Cursor; use past its limits comes from prepaid credit packs, and the MiniMax API is priced separately per million tokens.
Country
- Starting price
- Free plan
- Paid from £16/month (MiniMax M Plan Go)
- Pricing model
- Per person for one user
- No team plan
- Plus credit packs past plan limits
- Billing
- Monthly or yearly
- Yearly is 2 months free; billed in US dollars
- Tax
- Tax excluded
- Prices in USD, shown in GBP
- YOY change
- Not enough history
- Last updated
- 18 Oct 2026
How much does MiniMax cost in the UK?
Plans
Four plans for one person each, priced in US dollars before tax.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Who it is for | Key limits |
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| MiniMax Free | £0 per user | Not offered | MiniMax Code on web, desktop and mobile, with limited use | Key limits
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| MiniMax M Plan Go | £16 per user | £14 per user | For light use | Key limits
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| MiniMax M Plan Explore | £41 per user | £34 per user | For everyday use | Key limits
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| MiniMax M Plan Build | £99 per user | £82 per user | For heavy use | Key limits
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Additional costs
Costs on top of the plan price.
| Cost | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Usage past a plan's limits | Pay as you go list pricePrepaid credit packs at 1,000 credits per US$1, valid one year | |
| Credit packs | £3.75£19£75One-off, in three sizes | |
| Two or more people | Not availableNo team plan; every M Plan is for one person | |
| Downgrades | Not availableNot supported; upgrades are immediate and prorated | |
| Unused usage | Lost at each resetDoes not carry over when a 5-hour or weekly window resets | |
| MiniMax-M3 Priority tier | 1.5 times the Standard API priceAPI usage, chosen per request | |
| MiniMax-M3 over 512k input tokens | 2 times the rate up to 512kAPI usage | |
| Audio Subscription | £3.75 to £749 a monthMonthly, outside M Plan; 10% off 3-monthly, 20% off yearly | |
| Video Packages | £750 to £4,499Prepaid, valid one month, outside M Plan | |
| VAT | Rate not statedVAT may apply by billing location, calculated by the payment processor at checkout | |
| Foreign currency fees | Varies by bank or cardMiniMax bills in US dollars, so card foreign transaction fees can apply | Not publicly listed |
API prices
The MiniMax API is billed by use, in US dollars per million tokens, from a prepaid balance, separately from any plan.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context window | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax-M3 | US$0.30 | US$1.20 | US$0.06 | 1M tokens |
MiniMax cost calculator
Enter how many people need MiniMax, any extra usage, and any API use to price every plan. Estimates in GBP, converted from US dollars, excluding VAT.
How many people in each role will use AI?
For example, General office: 10 people. 12 people in total.
- General officeEmail, writing, summaries and researchpeople
- Content and marketingDrafting, editing and campaignspeople
- Software developmentCoding assistants, reviews and debuggingpeople
- Customer supportReplies and ticket summariespeople
- Finance and analysisSpreadsheets, reports and documentspeople
Do you also want AI to do jobs automatically?
How many times a month for each job. For example, 300 if you sign about 300 contracts a month.
Writing
- Answer support emailsa month
- Summarise email threadsa month
- Answer questions from your documentsa month
- Summarise contractsa month
- Draft blog posts or newslettersa month
- Review code changesa month
Decisions
- Route support ticketsa month
- Score inbound leadsa month
- Flag invoices for reviewa month
- Check documents against a policya month
Estimated cost
The plans with a published price are for one person each. Set the people to 1, or see the plans table for team options.
What MiniMax costs by company size
Estimated cost by number of employees on the cheapest plan that fits each end of the band. MiniMax sells no team plan, so only one person is priced.
| Employees | Plans | Monthly cost | Annual cost | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | MiniMax Free | £0 to No plan | £0 | to | No plan | £0 to No plan | £0 | to | No plan | |||
| 11 to 50 | No plan fits | |||||||||||
| 51 to 200 | No plan fits | |||||||||||
| 201 to 500 | No plan fits | |||||||||||
MiniMax discount codes and offers
Current MiniMax offers in the UK, checked 18 October 2026.
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Pay yearly
Go £14 a month instead of £16; 2 months free
Billed once a year; 10 months charged
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MiniMax-M3 API at 50% off list
US$0.30 input and US$1.20 output per million tokens, half the list rate
Labelled permanent; pay as you go only, up to 512k input tokens
How to negotiate MiniMax's price
Ranked by confidence of the biggest return.
| Rank | Lever | How it works | What it can save |
|---|---|---|---|
| [01] | Pay yearly | Yearly billing charges 10 months and gives 2 free. Go drops from £16 to £14 a month, and Build from £99 to £82. | £33 a year on Go £198 on Build |
| [02] | Start on Go and upgrade when needed | Upgrades take effect at once and are prorated, but downgrades are not supported, so a plan bought too big stays that way until it lapses. | £25 a month, Go against Explore |
| [03] | Use credit packs for occasional overflow | Past a plan's limit, credit packs cost the pay as you go list price and last a year. A US$5 or US$25 pack can cost less than moving up a tier for a busy month. | Up to £25 a month against Explore |
| [04] | Keep an existing Token Plan renewing | Token Plan subscribers keep their price and past discounts while auto-renewal stays on. Upgrading to M Plan ends those discounts. | Any discount the Token Plan carried |
| [05] | Run production work on the API | MiniMax recommends pay as you go for production use. MiniMax-M3 is billed at 50% off its list price. | 50% of list API price |
| [06] | Cache repeated input | Cached input on MiniMax-M3 costs US$0.06 per million tokens against US$0.30 for standard input. | Up to 80% of cached input spend |
| [07] | Use the Standard tier, not Priority | The Priority tier costs 1.5 times Standard for the same model. | 33% of Priority API spend |
| [08] | Keep prompts under 512k input tokens | Requests over 512k input tokens cost twice the rate of those under it. | 50% of long-prompt API spend |
MiniMax price history
MiniMax's API list prices over the last two years, in US dollars per million tokens. The M Plan's own price changes, the same in every country, are in the questions below.
API prices
MiniMax's API price over the same two years, one line per model family, in US dollars per million tokens. Each point is the blended price, 70% input and 30% output; hover for each launch and change.
MiniMax alternatives
Other tools in our price guides for the UK, largest first by market share.
| Vendor | Starting price | Pricing model | Key difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Free plan; paid from £7 a user a month (ChatGPT Go) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage credits | Credits for use past Business limits | Price guides |
| Gemini | Free plan; paid from £4.49 a user a month (Google AI Plus) | Per person on Google AI plans, per user in Google Workspace, plus AI credit top-ups | Business use comes through Workspace | Price guides |
| Claude | Free plan; paid from £18 a user a month (Claude Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Use past plan limits billed at API rates | Price guides |
| Meta AI | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Free for everyday use, pay as you go API, per million tokens, muse Code at a flat monthly rate | Free assistant; the API is pay as you go per million tokens in US dollars | Price guides |
| Grok | Free plan; paid from £7 a user a month (Grok Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, in US dollars, plus prepaid usage credit | Use past plan limits is prepaid credit | Price guides |
| DeepSeek | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per million tokens, half price off-peak | Half price off-peak | Price guides |
| Mistral Vibe | Free plan; paid from £11 a user a month (Mistral Vibe Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, with API usage in the same plan | Price guides |
| Qwen | Free plan; paid from £6 a user a month (Qwen Token Plan Lite) | Per person for one developer, per seat for teams, plus API usage per token | Per person or per seat in US dollars on monthly Credits quotas, plus API usage per token | Price guides |
| Kimi | Free plan; paid from £14 a user a month (Kimi Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, paid yearly, plus usage top-ups | Per person or per seat in US dollars, Business paid yearly, plus top-ups at about API rates | Price guides |
| Z.ai | Free plan; paid from £13 a user a month (GLM Coding Plan Lite) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus Team overage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, 20% off quarterly and 30% off yearly | Price guides |
| Jev | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per input token, output free | API only, per billion input tokens in US dollars, output free | Price guides |
MiniMax pricing questions
MiniMax Free costs nothing. M Plan Go is £16 a month, Explore £41 and Build £99, all before tax. Paid yearly they are £165, £412 and £990 a year.
No. MiniMax describes M Plan as a subscription for individuals and sells no per-seat or team version. It recommends pay as you go API use for production work. A Token Plan for Teams was sold briefly from late August 2026 and, according to a third-party tracker, closed to new buyers on 5 September.
MiniMax prices in US dollars only, so a card may add foreign transaction fees. Its terms say sales tax or VAT may apply based on the billing location, calculated by its payment processor at checkout and shown before payment. Businesses can enter a VAT number at checkout, which then appears on invoices.
Usage and video. Explore gives 3 times and Build 7.5 times the usage of Go, and only Explore and Build include the H3 video model. Build adds priority access at peak hours. Every plan covers MiniMax Code and a Subscription Key for tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode, all drawing on the same allowance.
Usage runs on a 5-hour and a weekly window. Past either limit, use continues from separately bought credit packs at 1,000 credits per US$1, the pay as you go list price, valid one year. Without credits, you can upgrade, wait for the window to reset, or switch the tool to a pay as you go API key.
MiniMax-M3 costs US$0.30 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens up to 512k input tokens, shown as a permanent 50% off its US$0.60 and US$2.40 list price. Past 512k it is US$0.60 and US$2.40. The API is paid from a prepaid US dollar balance.
Yes. Its coding subscription was US$10, US$20 and US$50 a month in February 2026. Token Plan replaced it in March and added a US$120 Ultra tier in June. Token Plan rose about 10% in late August 2026 to US$22, US$55 and US$132, and M Plan kept those prices when it replaced Token Plan on 30 September 2026.
MiniMax pricing sources and methodology
From minimax.io/m-plan on 18 October 2026 and MiniMax's docs. The page showed the same US dollar prices to visitors from the UK, the US, Canada and Singapore. Prices are in US dollars, and the platform terms say tax is calculated at checkout from the billing location, so prices here exclude VAT. Annual per month is each yearly price divided by 12. This page covers MiniMax's international platform, not its China site, which prices in yuan.
Estimates from list prices, excluding VAT, calculated in US dollars and converted to GBP at the European Central Bank reference rate (1 USD = 0.74989 GBP, 16 October 2026). Every plan serves one person and MiniMax sells no team plan, so two or more people are not estimated. Extra usage is added at cost and is not rounded up to whole credit packs. API tokens are priced on the chosen model from Ensurva's AI price guides; no plan includes API credits. Company size assumes every employee gets a seat.
The API table comes from the same data as Ensurva's AI price guides, read from MiniMax's own pricing pages, in US dollars per million tokens.
The chart shows MiniMax's API prices, from the same data as Ensurva's AI price guides. The M Plan's price history is not charted for United Kingdom. The plan price changes in the questions above are US dollar list prices, monthly, before tax, from MiniMax's changelog, archived copies of its docs, and third-party sources (aibase.com, codepick.dev, VentureBeat and the usagepricing.com tracker) for dates MiniMax does not publish.
Drawn from how MiniMax charges, not from records of negotiated deals.
Not shown. Public comments on MiniMax's pricing from people in the UK have not been collected yet.
Checked monthly against MiniMax's own pages.
The calculator's By use case tab puts each person on a seat that suits how heavily their role uses AI. Software developers use it most, about 15% of their working hours against about 6% across all workers (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2026), so they get the heavier seat where the plan has one. Content, support and finance staff fit a standard seat, and general office staff use AI least. Each automated job is priced at a typical size, about 100 tokens to 75 words: a support reply reads about 1,100 words and writes 200, and a contract summary reads 10,000 and writes 750. Decision jobs read the record and give a short typed answer: about 600 words to route a support ticket, 4,500 to check a document against a policy. Those sizes are Ensurva's own estimates. A model that writes no text, such as Jev, is priced on decision jobs only. Jobs are priced as API use on the vendor's default model, less any API credits the plan includes.
- MiniMax M Plan 18 Oct 2026
- MiniMax pricing overview 18 Oct 2026
- M Plan overview 18 Oct 2026
- M Plan FAQ 18 Oct 2026
- M Plan usage rules 18 Oct 2026
- M Plan upgrades and cancellation 18 Oct 2026
- M Plan monthly launch offer 16 Oct 2026
- Existing Token Plan subscribers 16 Oct 2026
- About Account (billing) 16 Oct 2026
- MiniMax Platform Terms of Service 18 Oct 2026
- MiniMax Code changelog 16 Oct 2026
- Coding Plan pricing, archived February 2026 16 Oct 2026
- Token Plan overview, archived August 2026 16 Oct 2026
- Token Plan overview, archived September 2026 16 Oct 2026
- VentureBeat on MiniMax-M3 and Token Plan 16 Oct 2026
- UsagePricing: Token Plan price rise 16 Oct 2026
- UsagePricing: Token Plan for Teams suspended 16 Oct 2026
- iadecider MiniMax Code review 16 Oct 2026
Prices are estimates from MiniMax's published list prices on the date shown. Check minimax.io before buying.