MiniMax M1 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 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
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Coder Flash	$0.300	$1.500	—	—	—	1,000,000	Try
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 3 70B Instruct	$0.300	$0.300	18.8	57.1	40.1	65,536	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
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

2 models

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

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

20.9 (52th pct)

Coding

14.1 (36th pct)

Math

13.7 (13th pct)

MMLU Pro

80.8 (66th pct)

GPQA

68.2 (59th pct)

LiveCodeBench

65.7 (69th pct)

AIME

81.3 (86th pct)

Aider

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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