--- title: "MiniMax Code pricing, platforms and integrations" description: "MiniMax's open source terminal coding agent, with ACP and headless modes. A closed-source desktop companion app adds Agent Team, memory and scheduled tasks." canonical_url: "https://whichcoding.tools/tools/minimax-code" --- # MiniMax Code > MiniMax's open source terminal coding agent, with ACP and headless modes. A closed-source desktop companion app adds Agent Team, memory and scheduled tasks. - **Layer**: Terminal agent, Desktop app - **Vendor**: MiniMax - **Platforms**: macOS, Windows, Linux - **License**: MIT - **Pricing**: From $20/mo - **Status**: Active - **JSON**: /api/v1/tools/minimax-code.json ## Links - [Website](https://agent.minimax.io/download) - [Pricing](https://platform.minimax.io/subscribe/token-plan) - [Repo](https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code) - [Docs](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/welcome) - [Changelog](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/changelog) ## Pricing | Plan | Price | Included | Beyond that | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Plus (individual) | $20/mo (per user) | — | — | Runs 3-4 concurrent agents; Page lists "Daily coding calls": ~34,000, assuming ~50K tokens per M3 call; ~1.7B tokens a month of M3 usage, shared across text, image and speech (vendor estimate); No video generation on this tier. Billed annually, the page lists $220/year for Plus alongside $264/year. | | Max (individual) | $50/mo (per user) | — | — | Runs 4-5 concurrent agents; Page lists "Daily coding calls": ~102,000, assuming ~50K tokens per M3 call; ~5.1B tokens a month of M3 usage, shared across text, image and speech (vendor estimate); Hailuo 2.3 video generation, 3 clips a day. Billed annually, the page lists $550/year for Max alongside $648/year. | | Ultra (individual) | $120/mo (per user) | — | — | Runs 6-7 concurrent agents; Page lists "Daily coding calls": ~250,000, assuming ~50K tokens per M3 call; ~12.5B tokens a month of M3 usage, shared across text, image and speech (vendor estimate); Hailuo 2.3 video generation, 5 clips a day. Billed annually, the page lists $1,320/year for Ultra alongside $1,560/year. | MiniMax Code, desktop and CLI, runs on the Token Plan with no separate API key required. The page also states Token Plan is closing to new purchases once M Plan launches; existing auto-renew subscriptions continue. One-time credit packs are also sold, Starter $5 for 5,000 credits, Growth $25 for 25,000 credits, High Volume $100 for 100,000 credits. Source: [platform.minimax.io/subscribe/token-plan](https://platform.minimax.io/subscribe/token-plan), verified 2026-09-29. ## Models - **Providers**: MiniMax - **Bring your own key**: BYOK - **Local models**: No Runs directly on a MiniMax Token Plan subscription by default, no API key required. BYOK does not require a MiniMax login either, a custom provider can be added over an openai-completions, openai-responses or anthropic-messages compatible endpoint. ## Features - **Subagents**: The agent can delegate to child agents - **MCP client**: Connects to MCP servers - **ACP agent**: Can be hosted by ACP clients such as Zed - **Browser automation**: Drives a browser to verify UI - **Mobile companion**: Follow or drive sessions from a phone - **Scheduled tasks**: Automations that run on a schedule - **Diff review**: Review and annotate changes in the tool - **Checkpoints**: Snapshot and roll back agent changes - **Plugins**: Extensible through plugins or a marketplace ## Install - **curl**: `curl -fsSL https://filecdn.minimax.chat/public/install.sh | bash` - **npm**: `npm install -g @minimax-ai/code` - **download**: [agent.minimax.io/download](https://agent.minimax.io/download) ## License - **SPDX**: MIT - **Kind**: Open source - **Repo**: [github.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code](https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code) The repo README: "First-party code defaults to MIT" and "The published source covers the terminal TUI, headless CLI, and ACP; it does not include the desktop application's source." The desktop app is a separate binary distributed from agent.minimax.io/download. ## Sources Every fact above points at a vendor page and the date someone last checked it. | Source | Covers | Verified | | --- | --- | --- | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/welcome](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/welcome) | general, features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/cli/quick-start](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/cli/quick-start) | general, platforms, models | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/cli/features](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/cli/features) | features, models | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/cli/security](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/cli/security) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/download](https://agent.minimax.io/download) | general, platforms | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/get-started/download](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/get-started/download) | platforms | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/team](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/team) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/custom-agents](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/custom-agents) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/mcp](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/mcp) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/plugins](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/plugins) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/memory](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/agents/memory) | general | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/automation/schedules](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/automation/schedules) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/automation/remote-control](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/automation/remote-control) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/desktop/browser](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/desktop/browser) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [agent.minimax.io/docs/code/workflows/code-review](https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/workflows/code-review) | features | 2026-09-29 | | [platform.minimax.io/subscribe/token-plan](https://platform.minimax.io/subscribe/token-plan) | pricing | 2026-09-29 | | [raw.githubusercontent.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code/main/README.md](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code/main/README.md) | license, models, features | 2026-09-29 | | [raw.githubusercontent.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code/main/LICENSE](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code/main/LICENSE) | license | 2026-09-29 | | [registry.npmjs.org/@minimax-ai/code](https://registry.npmjs.org/@minimax-ai/code) | license | 2026-09-29 | Source data: [content/tools/minimax-code.yml](https://github.com/benjamincanac/whichcodingtools/blob/main/content/tools/minimax-code.yml) ## Related - [Compare MiniMax Code with another tool](https://whichcoding.tools/compare?tools=minimax-code) - [All terminal agents](https://whichcoding.tools/layers/harness) Data: CC BY 4.0. 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