MiniMax

26 models across 7 families · Latest: MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview (2026-09)

Developing AI for gaming and entertainment.

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MiniMax's portfolio covers 25 active models across 6 current families, spanning coding, rag, and agents. Open a model detail page to compare provider routes and sourced benchmarks.

Covers 7 workload areas across 25 active tracked models; last verified 2026-09-28.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents across this lab's releases
  • Comparing model families before committing to a flagship
  • Migration and pricing follow-ups across 25 tracked models

Do not use it for

  • Choosing a hosting provider without opening a model page for price ladders

Active models

25

Current models from this lab, excluding deprecated ones

Active families

6

Current model families from this lab

Open catalog

17 open

15 open source / 2 open weights

Lowest output price

$0.900 /1M

Cheapest tracked output across active models, per 1M tokens

Latest dated release

2026-09-27

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview

Freshness

2026-09-28

Researched 2d ago

fresh

Information

Founded2021
Minhang, Shanghai, China

Release cadence

Dated releases
5
Latest date
2026-09-27

Where this lab wins

  • Coding: 5 tracked models with SWE-bench / HumanEval-style scores.
  • RAG: 8 tracked models with ruler / needle retrieval benchmarks.
  • Agentic: 5 tracked models with BFCL, tau-bench, and SWE-bench tool-use coverage.
  • Long-context: 15 tracked models with context-token or InfiniteBench-class signal.

Flagship quality / price signal

Flagship
MiniMax M3
Selection source
Best sourced coding Q/$
Coding grade
C
Benchmark / output price
swe-bench-pro 59 · $1.20/1M

About

MiniMax is a Chinese AI company that specializes in developing AI technologies for the gaming and entertainment industries. Their work focuses on creating intelligent game agents, procedural content generation, and player behavior analysis to enhance gaming experiences and drive innovation. For example, MiniMax's AI can power non-player characters (NPCs) that exhibit more realistic and adaptive behaviors, making game worlds feel more immersive and dynamic. Their procedural content generation techniques can create endless variations of game levels, quests, and items, ensuring a fresh experience for players.

Featured models

ModelReleasedContextInput price ($/1M)Output price ($/1M)LicenseOpenness
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview2026-09-271m--ProprietaryProprietary
MiniMax M32026-06-011m$0.30$1.20MiniMax Community LicenseOpen weights
MiniMax M2.72026-03-18205k$0.279$1.2MITOpen source

Model families

Recent releases

  1. MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview- 2026-09-27
  2. MiniMax M3- 2026-06-01
  3. MiniMax M2.7- 2026-03-18
  4. MiniMax M2.7 Highspeed- 2026-03-18
  5. MiniMax M2-her- 2026-03-01

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Last reviewed: 2026-09-28. Data sourced from public lab announcements and provider documentation.