MiniMax-M2.1
by MiniMaxChat
Earlier MiniMax agent model for practical coding and productivity tasks
- Context
- 205K tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Parameters
- 229B total, 10B active
- Released
- 2025-12-23
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- modified-mit
minimax/minimax-m2-1 · also seen as novita/minimax-m2.1, MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1, minimax/minimax-m2.1-lightning, ap-northeast-1/minimax.minimax-m2.1, +12 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-12-23
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- modified-mit
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 204,800 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 10 + 17 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.28–$0.30 in · $1.20 out per 1M tokens · 8 of 10 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-10
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1
- Parameters
- 229B total, 10B active
- Developer country
- China
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.28 in / $1.20 out per 1M tokens at Meganova on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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