whatmodel.sh / tts / MiniMax Speech-02-Turbo

MiniMax Speech-02-Turbo is a closed-weights text-to-speech model from MiniMax, released April 2025. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

Vapi registry minimax-speech-02-turbo, apiModelId speech-02-turbo. Distinct from Speech-02-HD and Speech 2.8 Turbo. Rating-only comparison identity; no price, API or run metadata asserted.

59.7±3.2#42 of 118 text-to-speech modelsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the Vapi Humanness · Bradley–Terry rating, 2026-09-25 snapshot comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The text-to-speech models ranked either side of MiniMax Speech-02-Turbo, out of 148 with a score, then more from MiniMax.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
49CosyVoice2-0.5B Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)61±1local~4.1GB2024-12
50E2 TTS Base (F5-TTS reproduction) SWivid (SJTU X-LANCE)60±2local~1.3GB2024-10
51MiniMax Speech-02-Turbo MiniMax60±3api $60.00/M chars2025-04
52TTS-1 OpenAI59±4api $15.00/M chars2023-11
53MaskGCT Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)59±1local~6.6GB2024-10
more from MiniMax
15MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo MiniMax66±3api $60.00/M chars2026-02
19MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD MiniMax66±2api $100.00/M chars2026-02
36MiniMax Speech-02-HD MiniMax63±3api $100.00/M chars2025-03

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 96% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Vapi Humanness · Bradley–Terry rating, 2026-09-25 snapshot1196.0 ✎▁···▁▃··█▄▁▇ beats 7/18avg 1078▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 96%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · $60.00/M chars · platform.minimax.io ↗ · price sourceUSD per 1M input characters: MiniMax's pay-as-you-go page lists T2A speech-2.6-turbo / speech-02-turbo at $60/M characters under Legacy Models. Product: MiniMax pay-as-you-go text-to-audio (T2A). API model: speech-02-turbo. Settings: pay-as-you-go. Price basis: published list rate. Exclusions: voice design/cloning fees. Currency: USD. MiniMax official pay-as-you-go pricing page, observed 2026-09-25.

$ how the score was worked out · The Humanness Index by Vapi ·… 96%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 96%CC BY 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 4%
weighted average= 59.7

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