MiniMax CLI

MiniMax AI platform CLI — text, image, video, speech, music, vision, and web search from terminal or AI agents. Use when generating multimedia content (images, TTS, video, music), doing web searches via MiniMax, or interfacing with the MiniMax API directly. Install with: npm install -g mmx-cli

Official CLI for MiniMax AI Platform. Full multimodal platform — text, image, video, speech, music, vision, and search.

Install

bash

npm install -g mmx-cli

Setup

bash

# Authenticate (get key from https://platform.minimax.io)
mmx auth login --api-key sk-xxxxx

# Verify
mmx auth status
mmx quota

Core Commands

Text Chat

bash

mmx text chat --message "prompt"
mmx text chat --model MiniMax-M2.7 --message "prompt" --stream
mmx text chat --system "You are a helpful assistant" --message "prompt"
mmx text chat --messages-file ./conversation.json --output json

Image Generation

bash

mmx image "A lobster in space"
mmx image generate --prompt "A cat" --n 3 --aspect-ratio 16:9
mmx image generate --prompt "Logo" --out-dir ./out/

Video Generation

bash

mmx video generate --prompt "Ocean waves at sunset" --async
mmx video generate --prompt "A robot painting" --download robot.mp4
mmx video task get --task-id <id>
mmx video download --file-id <id> --out video.mp4

Speech (TTS)

bash

mmx speech synthesize --text "Hello!" --out hello.mp3
mmx speech synthesize --text "Stream test" --stream | mpv -
mmx speech synthesize --text "Hi" --voice English_magnetic_voiced_man --speed 1.2
mmx speech voices  # list all available voices

Music Generation

bash

mmx music generate --prompt "Upbeat pop" --lyrics "[verse] La da dee" --out song.mp3
mmx music generate --prompt "Indie folk" --lyrics-optimizer --out song.mp3
mmx music generate --prompt "Cinematic orchestral" --instrumental --out bgm.mp3
mmx music cover --prompt "Jazz piano" --audio-file original.mp3 --out cover.mp3

Vision

bash

mmx vision photo.jpg
mmx vision describe --image https://example.com/img.jpg --prompt "What breed?"

Web Search

bash

mmx search "MiniMax AI latest news"
mmx search query --q "latest news" --output json

Quotas

Feature	Command	Quota
Text/Chat	mmx text chat	4,500 req/5hrs
Web Search	mmx search	integrated
Image Gen	mmx image	50/day

Check mmx quota for current usage.

Key Reference

For voice list, async video workflow, and API details see references/api-notes.md.