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MiniMax-M2.1

Earlier MiniMax agent model for practical coding and productivity tasks

MiniMax-M2.1
Type
Text
Quality
60 · Top 40% on the LMArena Text
Context window
204,800 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Input price
$0.30 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.20 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.03 / 1M tokens
Cache write
$0.38 / 1M tokens
Parameters
229B (228,689,764,864)
Downloads
11K in the last 30 days
Likes
1.4K
Access to weights
Open download
Released
Dec 23, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
—
Takes in
Text
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
File attachments
No
Access
Open weights
License
Modified MIT
Rarity
Common
Set number
732/1044
Open MiniMax docsWeights on Hugging FaceQuality 60Where to run it 24Evolution 2/5Meet its creatureBattle Solar Pro 4

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Specs from models.dev, downloads from Hugging Face, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: platform.minimax.io.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for MiniMax-M2.1, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 40% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #165.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

24 providers sell MiniMax-M2.1 through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.cn)FreeMiniMax-M2.1FreeFree205K
MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io)FreeMiniMax-M2.1FreeFree205K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)Cheapest paidminimax-m2.1$0.27$1.10205K
LLM Gatewayminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.27$1.10197K
MeganovaMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1$0.28$1.20197K
MoarkMiniMax-M2.1$0.29$1.20205K
302.AIMiniMax-M2.1$0.30$1.20205K
Amazon Bedrockminimax.minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20197K
Eden AIminimax/MiniMax-M2.1$0.30$1.20205K
Hugging FaceMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1$0.30$1.20205K
Show 14 more providers
ProviderInputOutputContext
Jiekou.AIminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20205K
Kilo Gatewayminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20205K
Merge Gatewayminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20205K
MiniMax (minimax.cn)MiniMax-M2.1$0.30$1.20205K
MiniMax (minimax.io)OfficialMiniMax-M2.1$0.30$1.20205K
Ofoxminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20205K
OpenCodeminimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20205K
OpenRouterminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20205K
Vercel AI Gatewayminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20205K
ZenMuxminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.30$1.20204K
NanoGPTminimax/minimax-m2.1$0.33$1.32200K
Cortecsminimax-m2.1$0.36$1.44196K
Poenovita/minimax-m2.1——205K
Qiniuminimax/minimax-m2.1——205K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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