MiniMax · Efficient
MiniMax 01
MiniMax's flagship model with a 1M token context window
- PDF input
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.14
- Output
- $1.12
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 16.4K
Side by side
MiniMax 01 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| MiniMax 01MiniMaxThis model | MiniMax M2.5MiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Feb 12, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1MBest | 204.8K |
| Max output | 16.38K | 131.07KBest |
| Average output | — | 653 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.14Best | $0.27 |
| Output | $1.12 | $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 Index | — | 22.8 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- MiniMax 01
- MiniMax M2.5
Intelligence Index
- MiniMax 01—
- MiniMax M2.522.8
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- MiniMax 01: —
- MiniMax M2.5: 73.3%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- MiniMax 01: —
- MiniMax M2.5: 20.5%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- MiniMax 01: —
- MiniMax M2.5: 84.8%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- MiniMax 01: —
- MiniMax M2.5: 71.6%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- MiniMax 01: —
- MiniMax M2.5: 34.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- MiniMax 01: —
- MiniMax M2.5: 95.3%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- MiniMax 01: —
- 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.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "minimax/minimax-01",
"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/minimax-01",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)MiniMax
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