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MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1

minimax/minimax-m2.1

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MiniMax-M2.1 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated parameters, it delivers a major jump in real-world capability while maintaining exceptional latency, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Compared to its predecessor, M2.1 delivers cleaner, more concise outputs and faster perceived response times. It shows leading multilingual coding performance across major systems and application languages, achieving 49.4% on Multi-SWE-Bench and 72.5% on SWE-Bench Multilingual, and serves as a versatile agent “brain” for IDEs, coding tools, and general-purpose assistance.

To avoid degrading this model's performance, MiniMax highly recommends preserving reasoning between turns. Learn more about using reasoning_details to pass back reasoning in our docsOpens in new tab.

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In / Out Price

$0.30 / $1.20per 1M

Context

205K

Released

Dec 23, 2025

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Providers

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Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Benchmark score summary for MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 (Artificial Analysis and Design Arena)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 GPQA Diamond83.0%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 HLE23.2%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 IFBench69.9%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 τ²-Bench Telecom85.4%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 AA-LCR67.7%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 CritPt0.3%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 Terminal-Bench Hard28.8%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 AA-Omniscience Accuracy21.2%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M2.1 AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate31.5%
Design ArenaMiniMax M2.1 Models Arena 3D Elo1193
Design ArenaMiniMax M2.1 Models Arena Code Categories Elo1205
Design ArenaMiniMax M2.1 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo1222
Design ArenaMiniMax M2.1 Models Arena Game Development Elo1157
Design ArenaMiniMax M2.1 Models Arena SVG Elo1156
Design ArenaMiniMax M2.1 Models Arena UI Component Elo1238
Design ArenaMiniMax M2.1 Models Arena Website Elo1214

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

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Frequently asked questions

MiniMax-M2.1 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated parameters, it delivers a major jump in real-world capability while maintaining exceptional latency, scalability, and cost efficiency.

MiniMax M2.1 costs $0.30/M input tokens and $1.20/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.03/M tokens.

MiniMax M2.1 has a 204,800 token context window. It supports up to 131,072 completion tokens.

Yes. MiniMax M2.1 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It supports response_format for JSON output, without JSON-schema enforcement.

MiniMax M2.1 is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: NovitaAI and MiniMax Highspeed. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

MiniMax M2.1 was released on December 23, 2025.

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