MiniMax-01 pricing

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… MiniMax-01 from MiniMax costs $0.200 per 1M input tokens and $1.10 per 1M output tokens. Context window 1,000,192 tokens.

API id minimax-01 · MiniMax · source · updated 2026-08-15 · general-purpose

$0.200
Input / 1M tokens
$1.10
Output / 1M tokens
Cached input / 1M
1M
Context window

What MiniMax-01 costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500$0.0008
Document summary50,0002,000$0.01
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000$0.42

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does MiniMax-01 cost per 1M tokens?
MiniMax-01 costs $0.200 per 1M input tokens and $1.10 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
What is MiniMax-01's context window?
MiniMax-01 accepts up to 1,000,192 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 1,000,192 output tokens.
Where does this MiniMax-01 price come from?
From the OpenRouter catalogue, because MiniMax does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from MiniMax's own — verify before committing spend.

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