MiniMax 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#

FeatureCommandQuotaText/Chatmmx text chat4,500 req/5hrsWeb Searchmmx searchintegratedImage Genmmx image50/day

Check mmx quota for current usage.

Key Reference#

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