# MiniChan Visual Q&A — NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3 Vision

> MiniChan Visual Q&A — NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3 Vision is a paid API for AI agents from app-minichi.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Answers natural language questions about images using NVIDIA NIM's MiniMax-M3 428B multimodal model

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://app-minichi.vercel.app/api/visual-qa?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/minichan-visual-q-a-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-vision-c0de420b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CB5GPm73ChBACM6Kx4MMM

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-visual-q-a-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-vision-c0de420b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Look at this image — https://example.com/photo.jpg — and tell me: what breed of dog is in the picture?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to ask a specific natural language question about an image and receive a direct answer, rather than just a generic caption or description. It is well-suited for structured visual Q&A tasks, diagram interpretation, text-in-image reading, object identification, and scene reasoning. Prefer it over generic captioning services when the query is question-shaped and context-specific. The MiniMax-M3 428B MoE model provides strong multimodal reasoning at $0.10 USDC per call via x402 payment on Base.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or inaccessible image URL returns an error (image must be publicly reachable)
- Ambiguous or overly vague questions may produce generic answers
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance results in 402 response
- Very large or unsupported image formats may cause processing errors
- Questions requiring real-world knowledge beyond visual content may be inaccurate

## 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

A text response answering the posed question about the provided image, generated by MiniMax-M3's 428B multimodal model. May include object identification, scene description, text extraction, reasoning about visual content, or any other image-grounded answer depending on the question asked.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "question",
  "image_url"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "question": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Question about the image"
  },
  "image_url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "URL of the image to analyze"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

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