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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 M2.5MiniMaxRemove
ProviderMiniMaxMiniMax
Discovery tierOpen weightsOpen weights
AddedJan 8, 2025Feb 12, 2026
Limits
Context window1MBest204.8K
Max output131.07K131.07K
Average output—653 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.14Best$0.27
Output$1.33$1.08Best
Cache read—$0.027
Performance
Throughput—110.4 tok/s
Time to first token—1.8 s
Request success (24h)—100.0%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index10.022.8Best
Math Index13.7—
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
ToolsNoYes
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 M2.5

Intelligence Index

  • MiniMax M110.0
  • MiniMax M2.522.8

MiniMax M1: Better than 21% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • MiniMax M1: 13.7
    • MiniMax M2.5: —

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax M2.5: 73.3%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • MiniMax M1: 7.8%
    • MiniMax M2.5: 20.5%Top
  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • MiniMax M1: 68.2%
    • MiniMax M2.5: 84.8%Top
  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • MiniMax M1: 80.8%
    • MiniMax M2.5: —
  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • MiniMax M1: 41.2%
    • MiniMax M2.5: 71.6%Top

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • MiniMax M1: 65.7%
    • MiniMax M2.5: —

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • MiniMax M1: 13.7%
    • MiniMax M2.5: —
  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • MiniMax M1: 81.3%
    • MiniMax M2.5: —
  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • MiniMax M1: 97.2%
    • MiniMax M2.5: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • MiniMax M1: 2.3%
    • MiniMax M2.5: 34.8%Top
  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • MiniMax M1: 31.6%
    • MiniMax M2.5: 95.3%Top
  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • MiniMax M1: —
    • MiniMax M2.5: 73.3%

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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