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MiniMax-01 Pricing

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MiniMax · 1M tokens context

MiniMax-01 from MiniMax costs $0.200 per 1 million input tokens and $1.10 per 1 million output tokens as of July 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 1,000,192-token context window (approximately 750,144 words) with a 1M-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0002 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0020.

MiniMax-01 pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.200 / 1M tokens
Output price$1.10 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio5.5×
Context window1,000,192 tokens (~750,144 words)
Maximum output1,000,192 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0002
TierFast
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MiniMax-01 is a combines MiniMax-Text-01 for text generation and MiniMax-VL-01 for image understanding.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.200

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$1.10

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

1M tokens

max 1000K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.000267$0.00044
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.000667$0.0011
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.001$0.00165
100K token document100,000$0.02$0.033

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Extremely cheap at $0.200/1M input tokens
  • Massive 1M-token context window
  • Low latency for high-throughput workloads
  • Multimodal: understands images as well as text

Limitations

  • Less capable than flagship models on complex reasoning
  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

High-volume classification
Text extraction and summarization
Simple chat and Q&A
Cost-sensitive pipelines

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