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MiniMax M2.1 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 12, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

MiniMax M2.1 was released on December 23, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.280 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 197K tokens. API access is available through Minimax.

Context Window
197K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.280
Output$1.20
Cached$0.140
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output71 tok/s
TTFT1.51s
median latency
Capabilities
ReasoningToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare MiniMax M2.1 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Context
Actions
$0.280
$1.200
196,608
Try
$0.250
$2.000
262,144
Try
$0.250
$0.850
163,840
Try
$0.250
$2.000
400,000
Try
$0.250
$2.000
400,000
Try
$0.250
$0.380
163,840
Try
$0.250
$0.250
32,768
Try
$0.250
$1.250
200,000
Try
$0.270
$0.270
131,072
Try
$0.270
$0.410
163,840
Try
$0.280
$1.100
123,000
Try

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

Compare Providers

MiniMax M2.1 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

4
Providers
$0.300
Cheapest Input/M
$1.200
Cheapest Output/M
Minimax
Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
M
Minimax
Best Price
$0.300
$1.200
99.6%
A
AtlasCloud
Best Price
$0.300
$1.200
92.1%
C
Chutes
Best Price
$0.300
$1.200
-
F
Fireworks
Best Price
$0.300
$1.200
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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MiniMax M2.1
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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
39.3 (93th pct)
Coding
31.6 (86th pct)
Math
82.7 (86th pct)
MMLU Pro
87.5 (98th pct)
GPQA
83.0 (94th pct)
LiveCodeBench
81.0 (91th pct)
AIME
-
Aider
-
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

MiniMax M2.1 costs $0.000280 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.001200 per 1,000 output tokens.
MiniMax M2.1 is available from 4 provider(s). Minimax offers the best price.
We compare MiniMax M2.1 with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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