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MiniMax Music 3AI music generator
Songs up to five minutes long from a style prompt and your lyrics. Without lyrics it makes an instrumental. A song can end before the length you ask for, which is what the run is billed. On Leap, it sits beside 169 other models in one studio.
- Music
- Up to 300 s
- Start free, no card
- Every top model, one account
- Pay per run, priced before it starts
AI music generator
MiniMax Music 3 at a glance
MiniMax Music 3 is a music model from MiniMax. It makes music from words, 1 to 300 seconds long.
The version before it: MiniMax Music 2.6.
- Made by
- MiniMax
- Makes
- Music
- Starts from
- Words
- Length
- 1 to 300 seconds
- Prompt
- Up to 4,000 characters
- Price per run
- $0.0022 to $0.66
- On Leap since
- October 5, 2026
- Updated
- October 5, 2026
- 01Write the words, pick a voice
- 02See the exact price, then press go
- 03Keep it in your library, or take it further
Pick the right one
MiniMax Music 3 and its siblings
| Model | Best for | Length | Price per run |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax Music 3 (this page) | Songs up to five minutes long from a style prompt and your lyrics. Without lyrics it makes an instrumental. A song can end before the length you ask for, which is what the run is billed. | 1 to 300 seconds | $0.0022 to $0.66 |
| MiniMax Music 2.6 | Full songs with vocals from a style prompt and your lyrics. | – | $0.165 |
| MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD | MiniMax's studio-quality speech, with emotion and over 30 languages. | – | $0.11 per 1,000 characters |
| MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo | MiniMax Speech 2.8 at a lower price, for volume. | – | $0.066 per 1,000 characters |
Start with an idea
Three ways to try MiniMax Music 3
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Questions
MiniMax Music 3, answered
- What is MiniMax Music 3?
- MiniMax Music 3 is a music model from MiniMax. Songs up to five minutes long from a style prompt and your lyrics. Without lyrics it makes an instrumental. A song can end before the length you ask for, which is what the run is billed. On Leap it runs in one studio beside every other top model, with one account.
- How long can the tracks be?
- 1 to 300 seconds. You choose the length before you press go, and the price follows it.
- What's new in MiniMax Music 3?
- MiniMax Music 3 follows MiniMax Music 2.6. A default run costs $0.132, against $0.165 for MiniMax Music 2.6.
- How is it different from MiniMax Music 2.6, MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD and MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo?
- MiniMax Music 3: Songs up to five minutes long from a style prompt and your lyrics. Without lyrics it makes an instrumental. A song can end before the length you ask for, which is what the run is billed. MiniMax Music 2.6: Full songs with vocals from a style prompt and your lyrics. MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD: MiniMax's studio-quality speech, with emotion and over 30 languages. MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo: MiniMax Speech 2.8 at a lower price, for volume. They all run in the same studio, so you can try one prompt on each.
- How much does a run cost?
- A track costs $0.132 at the default settings. By length, a run costs $0.0022 to $0.66. You see the exact price before you press go, and a run that fails costs nothing.
- Is MiniMax Music 3 free to try?
- Yes. Sign up with a Gmail, Outlook or work address and you start with $2 of free credit, no card needed. The cheapest run is $0.0022 (a track), so the credit covers 909 of those. After that you pay per run, in dollars, with no subscription.
- Can I use what I make commercially?
- Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
- Is there an API?
- Yes. Leap's REST API runs it as minimax/music-3, at the same price per run as the studio, and agents can call it through Leap's MCP server. The request is at the bottom of this page.
- Do I need a MiniMax account?
- No. Leap sends your request to MiniMax's model and gives you what it makes. One Leap account runs MiniMax Music 3 and every other model, in the studio, through the API and from your agents.
Your idea, MiniMax Music 3.
Start free, no card. Every run shows its price before it starts.
Make it with MiniMax Music 3For developers
Run MiniMax Music 3 from code
- Model ID
- minimax/music-3
- Makes
- Voice and sound
- Pricing
- Per run, quoted first: POST /v1/quotes
Inputs
What the model takes. Leave out anything with a default.
Promptprompt
Text, up to 4,000 characters, required
Durationduration
1 to 300, required. Default: 60 s
Lyricssettings.lyrics
Text, up to 4,000 charactersThe lyrics to sing.
Num Inference Stepssettings.num_inference_steps
1 to 100. Default: 30Number of flow-matching Euler steps per 8-second denoising chunk.
Guidance Scalesettings.guidance_scale
0 to 20. Default: 1.7Classifier-free guidance scale of the flow-matching stage.
Seedseed
0 to 4294967295The same seed and input give the same image.
The request
The same envelope for every model; only the model and its input change. With prefer: wait=60 the answer holds the result when the run finishes within a minute; a longer one is read again by its ID. Agents can call it through the MCP server at app.tryleap.ai/api/mcp.
curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations \ -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -H "prefer: wait=60" \ -d '{ "model": "minimax/music-3", "input": { "prompt": "A paper boat drifting down a rainy street at dusk" } }' # Video often outlasts the wait and answers "queued" or "running".# Put its "id" in GENERATION_ID and read it again until it is done:# curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations/$GENERATION_ID -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY"