# MiniChan Translation API (NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3)

> MiniChan Translation API (NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3) is a paid API for AI agents from app-minichwaan.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Translates text from any language into a specified target language using NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3 (428B MoE), payable with USDC on Base via x402.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://app-minichwaan.vercel.app/api/translate
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/minichan-translation-api-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-3408c6d7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7LRU-qflyFQXnuH0-9FTI

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability minichan-translation-api-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-3408c6d7 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Translate the following text into Japanese using MiniChan: 'We are pleased to announce the launch of our new product line. Thank you for your continued support.'

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need on-demand neural machine translation powered by a large MoE model (MiniMax-M3 428B) and are comfortable paying per-call in USDC on Base via x402. It is well-suited for agents that handle multilingual content dynamically and need a single flexible endpoint rather than a dedicated translation service with fixed language pairs.

## Known failure modes

- Missing 'text' field — request rejected with validation error
- Missing 'target_lang' field — request rejected with validation error
- Unsupported or misspelled target language — may produce an error or unexpected output
- Payment failure via x402/USDC — request blocked if payment not confirmed
- Very long input text may be truncated or refused
- Model hallucination on low-resource languages may degrade translation quality

## How this service works

NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3 (428B MoE) powered API for AI agents. 15 multimodal endpoints — text, vision, code, reasoning, creative. Pay with USDC on Base via x402.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the translated version of the input text in the specified target language, produced by the MiniMax-M3 428B MoE model via NVIDIA NIM.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "text",
  "target_lang"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "text": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Text to translate"
  },
  "target_lang": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Target language (e.g., Japanese, Spanish, French)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/minichan-translation-api-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-3408c6d7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from app-minichwaan.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/app-minichwaan.vercel.app/llms.txt)