MiniMax Music 3
minimax/music/3MiniMax Music 3 by MiniMax composes a complete song up to five minutes long with expressive vocals and evolving arrangements from a style prompt and lyrics.
- Base price
- $0.12USD / run
- Execution
- async
- Model type
- audio
- Input fields
- 4
Try the model
Playground
Your output will appear here
Complete the inputs, then click Run.
Specifications
Pricing
- Base price
- $0.12 / run
- Billing formula
- (params.duration ?? 60) * 0.002
Context & modalities
- Input
- Schema-defined
- Output
- audio
Capabilities
- Chat
- Not supported
- Vision
- Not supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Structured output
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Not supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- MiniMax
- Model ID
- minimax/music/3
- Execution
- async
- API
- Unified Run API
- Endpoint
- /v1/run
API README
MiniMax Music 3
MiniMax Music 3 composes a complete song with vocals and accompaniment from a music description and lyrics. Songs can run up to five minutes, with long-range structure across verses, choruses, and bridges.
Pricing
Billed at $0.002 per second of the requested duration upper bound (default 60 seconds).
| Duration | Price |
|---|---|
| 30 seconds | $0.06 |
| 60 seconds | $0.12 |
| 120 seconds | $0.24 |
| 300 seconds | $0.60 |
Prompt Guide
Describe genre, tempo, key, mood, vocals, and instrumentation in prompt, and put the song text in lyrics with one structure tag per line.
{
"prompt": "Genre: acoustic pop. BPM: 96. Warm and intimate. Vocals: soft female lead. Arrangement: fingerpicked guitar and soft piano.",
"lyrics": "[verse]\nMorning light filtering through the pine\n[chorus]\nSoftly the world begins to breathe",
"duration": 60
}
Technical Specs
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Model ID | minimax/music/3 |
| Required inputs | prompt, lyrics |
| Duration | 1-300 seconds upper bound; default 60 |
| Output | 44.1 kHz stereo WAV URL |
| Execution | Async (submit, then poll for result) |
Start building
Send your first request
OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "minimax/music/3",
"lyrics": "[verse]\nMorning light filtering through the pine\nEvery quiet street is yours and mine\n[chorus]\nSoftly the world begins to breathe",
"prompt": "Genre: acoustic pop. BPM: 96. Key: C major. Warm and intimate, building gently into the chorus. Vocals: soft female lead, close and breathy, light stacked harmonies in the chorus. Arrangement: fingerpicked guitar and soft piano; brushed drums and upright bass enter in the chorus.",
"duration": 60
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
sleep 2
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
"https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Type | Default price | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
MiniMax Music 3This model MiniMax | Audio | $0.12 / run | Oct 5, 2026 |
MiniMax | Audio | $0.15 / run | Apr 11, 2026 |
MiniMax | Audio | $0.10 / run | Feb 4, 2026 |
MiniMax | Audio | $0.06 / run | Feb 4, 2026 |
MiniMax | Audio | $0.06 / run | Oct 29, 2025 |
MiniMax | Audio | $0.10 / run | Oct 29, 2025 |
Questions
FAQ
How do I call MiniMax Music 3 through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "minimax/music/3" to Unified Run API (/v1/run) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
Do I need a separate MiniMax account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to MiniMax Music 3 and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with MiniMax separately.
