MODEL PROOF
MiniMax M1
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Serving precision differs between offers.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 148.2 points · 36% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens
Gemma 4 31B is a further stored option with these losses: 1M → 262K context, 40K → 16K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,342.8 ± 4.28 · 34,042 votes
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- 40K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.400 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $2.20 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Minimax: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.400/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $2.20/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.550/M from Novita.
2 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimaxminimax Endpoint terms
| $0.400 | $2.20 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Novitanovita/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.550 | $2.20 | bf16 | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1342.8default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 40K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-30 |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does MiniMax M1 cost?
$0.400/M in, $2.20/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does MiniMax M1 have an independent quality score?
MiniMax M1 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats MiniMax M1?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for MiniMax M1?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest MiniMax M1 endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.550/M from Novita.
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