MiniMax · Open weights
MiniMax M1
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
- Text
- 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
Side by side
MiniMax M1 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| MiniMax M1MiniMaxThis model | GPT 4.1 MiniOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Efficient |
| Added | Jan 8, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 131.07KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | — | 19 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.14Best | $0.40 |
| Output | $1.33Best | $1.60 |
| Cache read | — | $0.10 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 10.0 | 10.2Best |
| Coding Index | — | 20.2 |
| Math Index | 13.7 | 46.3Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- MiniMax M1
- GPT 4.1 Mini
Intelligence Index
- MiniMax M110.0
- GPT 4.1 Mini10.2
MiniMax M1: Better than 21% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- MiniMax M1: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 20.2
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- MiniMax M1: 13.7
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3Top
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- MiniMax M1: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 270 Elo
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- MiniMax M1: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- MiniMax M1: 7.8%Top
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 5.0%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- MiniMax M1: 68.2%Top
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 66.4%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- MiniMax M1: 80.8%Top
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 78.1%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- MiniMax M1: 41.2%Top
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 38.3%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- MiniMax M1: 65.7%Top
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 48.3%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- MiniMax M1: 13.7%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- MiniMax M1: 81.3%Top
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 43.0%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- MiniMax M1: 97.2%Top
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 92.5%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- MiniMax M1: 2.3%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 7.6%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- MiniMax M1: 31.6%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 52.9%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- MiniMax M1: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- MiniMax M1
- GPT 4.1 Mini
| Leaderboard | MiniMax M1 | GPT 4.1 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1187.3 |
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1193.3 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
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)MiniMax
Related models
Other MiniMax models, starting with the same family.