Scheduled for retirement on Mar 30, 2027. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
1M
Max output
205K
Serving providers
7
Cheapest input
$0.30 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.
Benchmarks
independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face leaderboardsSpeed & latency
Output speed
66 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
1.54s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
| Benchmark | Best score | Effort | Cost / task | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | default | — | |
| EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 116.2 | default | — | |
| GPQA Diamond | 83% | default | — | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 23% | default | — | |
| IFBench | 70% | default | — | |
| LiveCodeBench | 81% | default | — | |
| Long-Context Reasoning | 68% | default | — | |
| MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 87% | default | — | |
| Omniscience | -32.9 | default | — | |
| Omniscience Accuracy | 0.2 | default | — | |
| Omniscience Non Hallucination | 0.3 | default | — | |
| SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 2026 | 41% | — | — | |
| SWE-bench Pro | 37% | default | — | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 74% | default | — | |
| TerminalBench Hard | 29% | default | — | |
| τ²-bench | 85% | default | — |
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | ||||||||||||||||
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| Amazon Bedrock | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Standardbedrock/us-east-1/minimax.minimax-m2.1
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| Fireworks AI | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Standardfireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/minimax-m2p1
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| Gmi | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Standardgmi/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1
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| MinimaxCheapest | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Standardminimax/MiniMax-M2.1
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| Novita | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Standardnovita/minimax/minimax-m2.1
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| OpenRouter | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Standardminimax/minimax-m2.1
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| VercelVercel reseller quote | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Standardminimax/minimax-m2.1
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Price history
listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens Input Output
Cost calculator
estimate your monthly spend on this model$156
estimated / month
Model IDs
copy the exact identifier for your platformbedrock/us-east-1/minimax.minimax-m2.1gmi/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/minimax-m2p1minimax/MiniMax-M2.1novita/minimax/minimax-m2.1minimax/minimax-m2.1minimax/minimax-m2.1
Frequently asked questions
MiniMax M2.1 pricing, context and availabilityIs MiniMax M2.1 still available?
Yes. MiniMax M2.1 is scheduled for retirement on 2027-03-30.
How much does MiniMax M2.1 cost?
MiniMax M2.1 costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens from Minimax, and $1.20 per 1M output tokens from Minimax.
What is the context window of MiniMax M2.1?
MiniMax M2.1 accepts up to 1M tokens of context and can return up to 205K output tokens.
Which providers serve MiniMax M2.1?
MiniMax M2.1 is available from 7 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Minimax is currently the cheapest.
What can MiniMax M2.1 do?
MiniMax M2.1 supports tool use, reasoning, prompt caching and structured output.
Other MiniMax models
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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026
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