MiniMax M1
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
- Family
- MiniMax M1
- 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
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.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax | $0.400 | $2.20 | Serverless |
Capabilities
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.
Cheapest of 1 route · MiniMax