LLM Reference

MiniMax M1

Released
2025-09-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-11
Status
Researched 45d ago
Open SourceCommercial use allowedRAGAgentsLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

MiniMax M1 is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
  • Workloads that can use a 1m context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
Released
2025-09-01
Context
1m
Parameters
456B
Architecture
moe
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0(OSI)Commercial use allowed
Training
pretrained
Created by

Developing AI for gaming and entertainment.

Minhang, Shanghai, China
Founded 2021
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$2.20
Input / 1M
$0.400

Cheapest of 1 route · MiniMax

About

MiniMax-M1 is a large-scale open-weight reasoning model from MiniMax with 456B total parameters and a 1M token context window, designed for extended reasoning and high-efficiency inference.

MiniMax M1 is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks a 1m-token context window, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through MiniMax, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.4 input and $2.2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for MiniMax M1 yet.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
MiniMax$0.400$2.20
Serverless

Capabilities

ReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.