MiniMax M1
MiniMax released 2025-06-17
$0.963 per million tokens, balanced
No independent quality score.
No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.
Every price dimension
| Input | $0.550/M |
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| Output | $2.20/M |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1341.9default |
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Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
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| Max output | 40K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-30 |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
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| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |
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...