MiniMax M1 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 16, 2026 at 08:05 AM

Overview

MiniMax M1 was released on June 17, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.400 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 1.0M tokens. API access is available through Minimax.

Context Window

1.0M

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.400

Output$2.20

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

ReasoningTools

Pricing Comparison

Compare MiniMax M1 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
MM Minimax	MiniMax M1	$0.400	$2.200	65.7	80.8	68.2	1,000,000	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3 70B Instruct	$0.300	$0.400	19.8	57.4	37.9	8,192	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.6	$0.350	$1.500	56.1	78.4	63.2	202,752	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.5	$0.350	$1.550	—	—	—	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct	$0.350	$0.400	21.4	67.1	43.2	32,768	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi K2 0905 (exacto)	$0.390	$1.900	61.0	81.9	76.7	262,144	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)	$0.400	$1.200	—	—	—	1,000,000	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.7	$0.400	$1.500	56.2	79.4	66.4	202,752	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi K2 Thinking	$0.400	$1.750	85.3	84.8	83.8	262,144	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Medium 3.1	$0.400	$2.000	40.6	68.3	58.8	131,072	Try
MI Mistral AI	Devstral Medium	$0.400	$2.000	33.7	70.8	49.2	131,072	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

MiniMax M1 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.400

Cheapest Input/M

$1.760

Cheapest Output/M

Minimax

Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
M Minimax Best Price	$0.400	$2.200	-
OpenRouter Best Price	$0.400	$2.200	-
N Novita	$0.440	$1.760	-
S SiliconFlow	$0.550	$2.200	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

20.9 (56th pct)

Coding

14.0 (40th pct)

Math

13.7 (14th pct)

MMLU Pro

80.8 (68th pct)

GPQA

68.2 (63th pct)

LiveCodeBench

65.7 (72th pct)

AIME

81.3 (86th pct)

Aider

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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