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# MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1: $0.300/M in, $1.20/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax · released 2025-12-23

 $0.525 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## 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 | $0.300 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.20 /M |
| Cached input | $0.030 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1391.1 preview |
| --- | --- |

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 | 205K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 131K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

MiniMax-M2.1 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated parameters, it delivers a major jump in real-world...