What is Video 01 API?
Minimax Video-01 generates high-quality videos from text prompts or image using advanced AI techniques for diverse creative applications.
Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Image, Text
- Output: Video
Performance Benchmarks
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Video 01 API Pricing
- Pricing on request
Where to Use Video 01
Short-form video generation
Create clips for social, ads, and product demos from text or image prompts.
Previsualization and storyboards
Rapidly prototype motion concepts before committing to production.
Video 01 is documented as suitable for concept trailers and story beats, where it can be used for quick visual drafts of narrative sequences.
It is also documented for marketing clips, including product mood videos and brand-style visuals.
The model is documented for social content, producing short clips with strong camera direction for social media use.
It is also documented for pre-visualization, including test shots, lighting, and staging before production.
import requests, time headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY} job = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations", headers=headers, json={ "model": "video-01", "prompt": "A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range" }, ).json() gid = job["id"] while True: res = requests.get(f"https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id={gid}", headers=headers).json() if res.get("status") in ("completed", "error"): break time.sleep(5) print(res["video"]["url"])
const headers = { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }; const job = await (await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations", { method: "POST", headers, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "video-01", "prompt": "A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range" }), })).json(); let res; do { await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5000)); res = await (await fetch(`https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id=${job.id}`, { headers })).json(); } while (!["completed", "error"].includes(res.status)); console.log(res.video.url);
# submit the generation — the response contains the job "id" curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"video-01","prompt":"A serene timelapse of clouds over a mountain range"}' # then poll until status is "completed" — video.url holds the result curl "https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id={id}" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY"
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
| Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Output | |
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Video 01 This page | Video generation |
Video 01 takes image, text as input and returns video.
Video 01 is priced at $0.559 / gen.
Video 01 is billed per generation — a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.
Yes, Video 01 accepts image input as well as a text prompt.
Video 01 was built by MiniMax.
Use video-01 as the model id on AI/ML API.
Yes. Video 01 is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.