Quickstart

Go to Plan Details, choose a tier, and complete payment.

If you only use M Plan in MiniMax Code, sign in to MiniMax Code after completing step 1. You do not need to configure an M Plan API key.

2. Get your M Plan API key

After subscribing, find your M Plan API key in Plan Details. You need this M Plan API key to use M Plan in AI tools such as Claude Code and Cursor. Note:

Your M Plan API key only uses your M Plan usage and is not interchangeable with a pay-as-you-go API Key.
Keep your M Plan API key secure. Do not share it with others or commit it to a code repository. Use an environment variable or configuration file to store it.

3. Test an API call (optional)

For example, use the Anthropic SDK to quickly test MiniMax-M3.1-Flash. Install the SDK

pip install anthropic

npm install @anthropic-ai/sdk

Configure environment variables Replace ${YOUR_API_KEY} with your M Plan API key:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.minimax.io/anthropic
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=${YOUR_API_KEY}

See Configure environment variables. Call the API

Python

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()

message = client.messages.create(
    model="MiniMax-M3.1-Flash",
    output_config={"effort": "max"},
    max_tokens=4096,
    system="You are a helpful assistant.",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {
                    "type": "text",
                    "text": "Hi, how are you?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
)

for block in message.content:
    if block.type == "thinking":
        print(f"Thinking:\n{block.thinking}\n")
    elif block.type == "text":
        print(f"Text:\n{block.text}\n")

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​3. Test an API call (optional)

1. Subscribe to M Plan

2. Get your M Plan API key

3. Test an API call (optional)