MiniMax-01
Released
2025-01-14
Last refreshed
2026-06-22
Status
Researched 89d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalLong contextVision
MiniMax-01 is worth evaluating for long context and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context and vision
- Workloads that can use a 4m context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
- Family
- MiniMax-01
- Released
- 2025-01-14
- Context
- 4m
- Parameters
- 456B total, 45.9B active
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- MiniMax Community LicenseCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Created by
Pricing
Output / 1M
$1.10
Input / 1M
$0.200
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter
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About
MiniMax-01 combines MiniMax-Text-01 and MiniMax-VL-01, pairing a 456B-total-parameter MoE language model with multimodal understanding for long-context text generation and vision-language tasks.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.200 | $1.10 | Serverless |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodal
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(2)
Created by
Pricing
Output / 1M
$1.10
Input / 1M
$0.200
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter
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