MiniMax M1: API pricing, providers and specs
MiniMax M1 is a text model by MiniMax. One provider serves it: OpenRouter, at $2.20 /1M.
A newer version is out: MiniMax M2.5 · released Feb 12, 2026
Lowest price$2.20/1Mat OpenRouter
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers1
Context1MMax output 40K
How MiniMax M1 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $2.20 /1M against a median of $1.10; 65% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 1M-token context window is larger than 67% of them (median 262K), about 1500 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #65 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
MiniMax M1 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.55/1M | From$2.20/1M | — | 1M |
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- MiniMax
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1M≈ 1500 pages of text
- Max output
- 40K
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- Jun 17, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1343Text
Alternatives to MiniMax M1
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M1this model | $2.20/1M | 1M | 1343 | 1 |
 GLM-5.3 | $1.10/1M | 1.05M | 1623 | 49 |
 Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $4.11/1M | 1M | — | 22 |
| Grok 4.7 | $4.80/1M | 500K | 1637 | 28 |
 Gemini 3 Flash | $2.40/1M | 1.05M | 1466 | 5 |
 Mistral Large 4 | $2.09/1M | 1.05M | 1543 | 13 |
 Muse Spark 1.3 | $4.25/1M | 1.05M | 1657 | 11 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
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The lowest price for MiniMax M1 is $2.20 /1M, at OpenRouter.
MiniMax M1 reads up to 1M tokens per request and writes up to 40K.
We have not found MiniMax M1's weights published by its maker.
1 API providers serve MiniMax M1. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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