MiniMax-01
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
- Family
- MiniMax-01
- Released
- 2025-01-14
- Context
- 4m
- Parameters
- 456B total, 45.9B active
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter
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.
MiniMax-01 is an open-weight model. The structured metadata tracks a 4m-token context window and multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.2 input and $1.1 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for MiniMax-01 yet.
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
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(1)
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter