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MiniMax M1

Added Jan 8, 2025Open weights

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MiniMax-M1 is a hybrid MoE reasoning model with 40K thinking budget. World's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention model with lightning attention for efficient test-time compute scaling. Excels at complex tasks requiring extensive reasoning.

Input
Text
Output
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Discovery tier
Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$0.14
Output
$1.33

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
1M
Max output
131.1K

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MiniMax M1MiniMaxThis modelMiniMax LatestMiniMaxRemove
ProviderMiniMaxMiniMax
Discovery tierOpen weightsOpen weights
AddedJan 8, 2025May 3, 2026
Limits
Context window1MBest512K
Max output131.07KBest80K
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.14Best$0.23
Output$1.33$0.96Best
Cache read—$0.05
Performance
Throughput—127.0 tok/s
Time to first token—1.1 s
Request success (24h)—99.9%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index10.029.2Best
Coding Index—58.6
Math Index13.7—
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
ToolsNoYes
VisionNoYes
Structured outputNoYes
Reasoning effort——

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • MiniMax M1
  • MiniMax Latest

Intelligence Index

  • MiniMax M110.0
  • MiniMax Latest29.2

MiniMax M1: Better than 21% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 58.6
  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • MiniMax M1: 13.7
    • MiniMax Latest: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 21.3%
  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 4.4%
  • Harvey LAB-AAv1.1

    Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 0.0%
  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 1,089 Elo
  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 1,243 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 9.8%
  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 83.0%
  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 4.4%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • MiniMax M1: 7.8%
    • MiniMax Latest: 39.0%Top
  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • MiniMax M1: 68.2%
    • MiniMax Latest: 92.9%Top
  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • MiniMax M1: 80.8%
    • MiniMax Latest: —
  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • MiniMax M1: 41.2%
    • MiniMax Latest: 82.9%Top

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 2.0%
  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 47.1%
  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • MiniMax M1: 65.7%
    • MiniMax Latest: —

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • MiniMax M1: 13.7%
    • MiniMax Latest: —
  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • MiniMax M1: 81.3%
    • MiniMax Latest: —
  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • MiniMax M1: 97.2%
    • MiniMax Latest: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • MiniMax M1: 2.3%
    • MiniMax Latest: 42.4%Top
  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • MiniMax M1: 31.6%
    • MiniMax Latest: 88.9%Top
  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax Latest: 83.0%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "MiniMax-M1",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="MiniMax-M1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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