MiniMax alternatives
6 agents tools in the same lane as MiniMax, ranked by editorial score.
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mini-SWE-agent
Agents · Multi-model (via litellm, OpenRouter, Portkey)
7.2
A 100-line open-source coding agent that scores 74%+ on SWE-bench Verified.
Free· Free and open source (Apache 2.0); you pay only for the underlying LLM tokens.swe-bench-evaluationautonomous-coding
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Portkey AI Gateway
Agents · Multi-model (1,600+ LLMs)
7.2
Open-source AI gateway that routes a single API call across 1,600+ LLMs with caching, fallbacks, and observability.
Freemium· Developer: Free Forever · Production: $49/month · Enterprise: Custom Pricingllm-routingfallbacks-and-retries
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Manifest
Agents · Multi-model
7.1
Open-source LLM router that fans your agent traffic across providers and your existing AI subscriptions.
Freemium· Free: $0 /month · Pro: $19 /month · Enterprise: Let's Talkllm-routingcost-control
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LLM Gateway
Agents · Routes to GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5, Llama 3.1, Mistral, and 200+ others
One API, 200+ models, transparent pricing, and no vendor lock-in.
Freemium· Free: $0 · Enterprise: CustomMulti-provider LLM routingAutomatic failover between model vendors
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Yi (01.AI)
Agents · Yi-Lightning (MoE), Yi-Large, Yi-1.5 (6B/9B/34B), Yi-VL, Yi-Coder — in-house 01.AI foundation models
8.4
Foundation models from 01.AI — open-weight Yi family plus frontier Yi-Lightning and Yi-Large
Freemium· Open-source Yi models free under permissive license; hosted API via platform.lingyiwanwu.com with pay-per-token pricing (Yi-Lightning positioned as a low-cost frontier tier; Yi-Large priced higher; exact per-token rates on the platform dashboard). Enterprise custom-training and consulting on quote.Self-hosted coding assistantBilingual English-Chinese chatbot
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Kong AI Gateway
Agents · Multi-model
7.3
Enterprise API gateway extended to route, govern, and observe LLM and agent traffic across providers.
Freemium· Free trial: $0 · Plus: Charged per Gateway per month · Enterprise: Custom pricing · Essentials: $0 · Pro: $12llm-gatewaymulti-llm-routing