Vendor

MiniMax models

9 models with the vendor's list prices per million tokens. None answers on this deployment yet - connect your own provider to route to them.

Models

0 available here

Cheapest (blended)

free

MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)

Median list price

$0.52

3:1 input to output per 1M tokens

Strongest

MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)

intelligence index 43

Every MiniMax model

Newest first. Prices are the vendor's published rates per million tokens; click a model for the full specification.

Model	Released	Context	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Intelligence	Capabilities
MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free	Oct 19, 2026	1M	free	free	43	reasoning tools
MiniMax M3minimax/minimax-m3	May 31, 2026	1.0M	$0.30	$1.20	29	reasoning tools open weights
MiniMax M2.7minimax/minimax-m2.7	Mar 18, 2026	205K	$0.30	$1.20	23	reasoning tools open weights
MiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5	Feb 12, 2026	205K	$0.27	$0.95	23	reasoning tools open weights
MiniMax M2-herminimax/minimax-m2-her	Jan 23, 2026	66K	$0.30	$1.20	-
MiniMax M2.1minimax/minimax-m2.1	Dec 23, 2025	205K	$0.30	$1.20	21	reasoning tools open weights
MiniMax M2minimax/minimax-m2	Oct 23, 2025	205K	$0.26	$1.02	19	reasoning tools open weights
MiniMax M1minimax/minimax-m1	Jun 17, 2025	1M	$0.55	$2.20	12	reasoning tools
MiniMax-01minimax/minimax-01	Jan 15, 2025	1.0M	$0.20	$1.10	-	open weights

Frequently asked

What is the cheapest MiniMax model?: MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free) at free per 1M input tokens and free per 1M output tokens (vendor list price).
Which MiniMax model has the largest context window?: MiniMax M3 accepts 1.0M tokens of context.
How do I route to MiniMax models with OpenSmartRoute?: Declare a target in targets.yaml with metadata.model set to the catalogue id (for example minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free); the router scores it against every other target on cost, quality, latency and your policies for each request.

Route MiniMax with everything else

OpenSmartRoute picks the cheapest model that meets your quality bar per request, so a MiniMax flagship handles hard prompts while small models take the rest. Price a workload or try a routing decision live.

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One of many

MiniMax answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

The prices on this page are the vendor's own list prices. Behind the router they become one column in a scorecard: for every request the candidates from MiniMax are weighed against every other vendor on cost, quality prior, latency and your policy, and the trace records why the winner won. Bring your own MiniMax key or buy by the token here; the decision is the same.

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For the business

What it does for the vendor strategy.

One URL, every vendor
No vendor lock-in
Point your OpenAI-compatible client at one address; add, swap or retire providers in the catalogue without touching application code.
Every vendor side by side
89% less
Lower cost per request
On the 150-prompt benchmark the router spent 89% less than sending every prompt to the reference model, and the judged quality went up, not down.
Read the benchmark
Self-hosting is free
Open source, Apache-2.0
The router is a library, a sidecar or a control plane you can run yourself, so the exit is always open.
What is open

Will this lock us into another vendor?: No. The router is Apache-2.0 open source, your provider keys stay yours, and the API is OpenAI-compatible, so leaving is a change of base URL.
How much can we save on our LLM bill?: On the public benchmark the router saved 89% against sending everything to the reference model. Import last month's provider bill on the bill page and the estimate is computed on your own traffic before you change a line of code.
How do we compare AI gateways and routers?: The compare pages score each product against the same documented capabilities and say when the review was done; the benchmark page shows measured cost and quality, including the cases the router lost.

Model

Released

Context

Input / 1M

Output / 1M

Intelligence

Capabilities

MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free

Oct 19, 2026

free

reasoning tools

MiniMax M3minimax/minimax-m3

May 31, 2026

1.0M

$0.30

$1.20

reasoning tools open weights

MiniMax M2.7minimax/minimax-m2.7

Mar 18, 2026

205K

$0.30

$1.20

reasoning tools open weights

MiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5

Feb 12, 2026

205K

$0.27

$0.95

reasoning tools open weights

MiniMax M2-herminimax/minimax-m2-her

Jan 23, 2026

66K

$0.30

$1.20

MiniMax M2.1minimax/minimax-m2.1

Dec 23, 2025

205K

$0.30

$1.20

reasoning tools open weights

MiniMax M2minimax/minimax-m2

Oct 23, 2025

205K

$0.26

$1.02

reasoning tools open weights

MiniMax M1minimax/minimax-m1

Jun 17, 2025

$0.55

$2.20

reasoning tools

MiniMax-01minimax/minimax-01

Jan 15, 2025

1.0M

$0.20

$1.10

open weights

Frequently asked

What is the cheapest MiniMax model?

MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free) at free per 1M input tokens and free per 1M output tokens (vendor list price).

Which MiniMax model has the largest context window?

MiniMax M3 accepts 1.0M tokens of context.

How do I route to MiniMax models with OpenSmartRoute?

Declare a target in targets.yaml with metadata.model set to the catalogue id (for example minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free); the router scores it against every other target on cost, quality, latency and your policies for each request.

MiniMax answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

MiniMax models

Every MiniMax model

Frequently asked

Route MiniMax with everything else

MiniMax answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

What it does for the vendor strategy.

No vendor lock-in

Lower cost per request

Open source, Apache-2.0

MiniMax models

Every MiniMax model

Frequently asked

Route MiniMax with everything else

MiniMax answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

What it does for the vendor strategy.

No vendor lock-in

Lower cost per request

Open source, Apache-2.0