Monid AI

Monid is an API aggregation layer for AI agents, giving developers one base URL and one key to reach hundreds of third party tools and models without signing up for each provider individually. The platform positions itself as OpenRouter for agent tools, with the pitch that an agent can discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime . This launch adds the MiniMax H3 family, an omni-modal generation model that jointly handles text, images, video, and audio , to that catalog on a pay-as-you-go basis with no subscription required. The timing matters because MiniMax only officially launched H3 recently as a general-purpose multimodal generation model , and teams building agentic video workflows are actively comparing it against models like ByteDance's Seedance. By routing H3 through Monid, developers building agents that generate video can swap models behind a single interface and meter usage per call rather than committing to a provider subscription, which is useful for prototyping and for production workloads with spiky demand. Monid was co-founded in San Francisco by Shengkun Ye and Feiyou Guo, with Ye previously at Founders Inc, TabaPay and WeChat . The company is building toward a broader thesis that agents need a shared runtime for discovering and paying for external tools, and adding a frontier video model to the registry is a concrete extension of that catalog for builders who want image and video generation available through the same integration they already use for search, scraping, and enrichment APIs.