MiniMax M2.1 Lightning
by MiniMaxChat
High-speed MiniMax model for low-latency coding and agent workflows
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Released
- 2025-12-23
- Weights
- Closed
minimax/minimax-m2-1-lightning
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-12-23
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,000,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 8,192
- Providers
- 1 + 3 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.30 in · $2.40 out per 1M tokens · from its one provider
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-12-23
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-10
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- 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
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.30 in / $2.40 out per 1M tokens at MiniMax (minimax.io) 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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