MiniMax-01
Summary
MiniMax-01 is an open-weight language model from MiniMax, released on 15 Jan 2025. It accepts text and images and generates text, with a 1M-token context window and up to 900K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens (OpenRouter), across 1 provider we track.
MiniMax-01 is a combines MiniMax-Text-01 for text generation and MiniMax-VL-01 for image understanding. It has 456 billion parameters, with 45.9 billion parameters activated per inference, and can handle a context...
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | MiniMax |
|---|---|
| Release date | 15 Jan 2025 [OpenRouter] |
| Status | Generally available |
| Weights | Open weights [OpenRouter] |
| Context window | 1M (1,000,192 tokens) [OpenRouter] |
| Max output | 900K tokens [OpenRouter] |
| Knowledge cutoff | 31 Mar 2024 [OpenRouter] |
| Input | Text and images [OpenRouter] |
| Output | Text [OpenRouter] |
| Reasoning mode | No [OpenRouter] |
| Tool calling | No [OpenRouter] |
| Structured output | No [OpenRouter] |
| Hugging Face | MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01 |
MiniMax-01 API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter minimax/minimax-01 | $0.20 | $1.10 | – | 1M | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of MiniMax-01?
MiniMax-01 has a context window of 1,000,192 tokens (1M) and can generate up to 900,172 tokens in a single response, according to OpenRouter.
How much does the MiniMax-01 API cost?
MiniMax-01 is listed from $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens (OpenRouter). Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is MiniMax-01 open source?
MiniMax-01 is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was MiniMax-01 released?
MiniMax released MiniMax-01 on 15 Jan 2025, according to OpenRouter.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.