MiniMax · Balanced
MiniMax M1 80K
MiniMax-M1 with 80K thinking budget. Enhanced version of the hybrid MoE reasoning model with double the thinking capacity. Ideal for extremely complex software engineering, tool use, and long context tasks.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.61
- Output
- $2.42
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 131.1K
Side by side
MiniMax M1 80K compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| MiniMax M1 80KMiniMaxThis model | MiniMax M2.1MiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 8, 2025 | Jan 20, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1MBest | 200K |
| Max output | 131.07K | 131.07K |
| Average output | — | 359 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.61 | $0.30Best |
| Output | $2.42 | $1.20Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.03 |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 11.7 | 20.9Best |
| Math Index | 61.0 | 82.7Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- MiniMax M1 80K
- MiniMax M2.1
Intelligence Index
- MiniMax M1 80K11.7
- MiniMax M2.120.9
MiniMax M1 80K: Better than 26% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- MiniMax M1 80K: 61.0
- MiniMax M2.1: 82.7Top
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- MiniMax M1 80K: 57.7%
- MiniMax M2.1: 67.7%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- MiniMax M1 80K: 8.9%
- MiniMax M2.1: 23.2%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- MiniMax M1 80K: 69.7%
- MiniMax M2.1: 83.0%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- MiniMax M1 80K: 81.6%
- MiniMax M2.1: 87.5%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- MiniMax M1 80K: 41.8%
- MiniMax M2.1: 69.9%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- MiniMax M1 80K: 71.1%
- MiniMax M2.1: 81.0%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- MiniMax M1 80K: 61.0%
- MiniMax M2.1: 82.7%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- MiniMax M1 80K: 84.7%
- MiniMax M2.1: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- MiniMax M1 80K: 98.0%
- MiniMax M2.1: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- MiniMax M1 80K: 3.0%
- MiniMax M2.1: 28.8%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- MiniMax M1 80K: 34.2%
- MiniMax M2.1: 85.4%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- MiniMax M1 80K: 57.7%
- MiniMax M2.1: 67.7%Top
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.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M1-80k",
"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="MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M1-80k",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)MiniMax
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