minimax / text-generation API-only released 2025-06-17

MiniMax M1

MiniMax-M1 is a large-scale, open-weight reasoning model designed for extended context and high-efficiency inference. It leverages a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture paired with a custom "lightning attention" mechanism, allowing it...

Input / 1M
$0.55
Output / 1M
$2.20
Context
1M
AA Intelligence
11.7
Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text → text Knowledge cutoff Jun 2024 View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.55
input / 1M
$2.20
output / 1M
—
cached input / 1M
$2.75
1M in + 1M out
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
40,000 tokens
Providers
2
Cheapest provider
Minimax · $0.40 / $2.20
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
11.7 / — / —
✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✗ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)
Current: $0.55 input · $2.20 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index
11.7
AA Coding Index
—
AA Agentic Index
—

Providers

2 providers · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
Minimax unknown 1M $0.40 $2.20 — —
Novita bf16 1M $0.55 $2.20 — —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
minimax
Released on OpenRouter
2025-06-17
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
40,000 tokens
Input
text
Output
text
Knowledge cutoff
June 2024
Tokenizer
Other
Moderated by provider
No
OpenRouter id
minimax/minimax-m1
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.