MiniMax M1
MiniMax M1 is a legacy integration reference; evaluate MiniMax M3 before starting new work.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 1m context window
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- MiniMax M1
- Released
- 2025-09-01
- Context
- 1m
- Parameters
- 456B
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
This model is deprecated. MiniMax recommends switching to MiniMax M3.
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 and OpenRouter, 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 all 2No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
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.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 has a context window of 1m tokens.
How much does MiniMax M1 cost?
MiniMax M1 pricing ranges from $0.40/1M to $0.4/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was MiniMax M1 released?
MiniMax M1 was released on 2025-09-01.
Which providers offer MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 is available from 2 providers: MiniMax, OpenRouter.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.