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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 docs(opens in new tab).

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.30 / $1.20per 1M

Context

205K

Released

Dec 23, 2025

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Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

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.

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.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

About MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1

OpenRouter makes MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID minimax/minimax-m2.1. Requests can be routed across 2 providers, including NovitaAI and MiniMax Highspeed, with automatic failover when an endpoint is unavailable.

MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 accepts text and returns text. It has a 204,800-token context window and a maximum output of 131,072 tokens.

On OpenRouter, MiniMax: 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. Effective pricing can be lower when prompt caching applies. It was released on December 23, 2025.

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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.

$0.30$1.20$0.032.02s40 tps
99.84%
$0.30$1.20$0.031.33s65 tps
99.30%
$0.30$2.40$0.031.84s46 tps
99.01%

Throughput

65tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

1.33s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto Benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-Bench
MiniMax Highspeed
87.5%73.8%
auto-routing
86.4%62.9%
NovitaAI
85.9%63.0%
MiniMax
85.1%63.0%
Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.90%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.90%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.92%
Without Routing
99.66%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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