MiniMax · Open weights
MiniMax Latest
Compatibility alias for MiniMax M3 Thinking, retaining its existing request format and structured-output support. The newer MiniMax M3.1 Flash is available separately as minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash and has different request parameter support.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.23
- Output
- $0.96
- Cache read
- $0.05
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 512K
- Max output
- 80K
Side by side
MiniMax Latest compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| MiniMax LatestMiniMaxThis model | MiniMax M2.7MiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | May 3, 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 512KBest | 204.8K |
| Max output | 80K | 131.07KBest |
| Average output | — | 556 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.23 | $0.21Best |
| Output | $0.96 | $0.84Best |
| Cache read | $0.05 | $0.042Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 170.7 tok/sBest | 24.3 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 1.2 s | 0.9 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.9% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 29.2Best | 22.8 |
| Coding Index | 58.6Best | 52.6 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- MiniMax Latest
- MiniMax M2.7
Intelligence Index
- MiniMax Latest29.2
- MiniMax M2.722.8
MiniMax Latest: Better than 70% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- MiniMax Latest: 58.6Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 52.6
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- MiniMax Latest: 21.3%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 4.4%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- MiniMax Latest: 4.4%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 0.3%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- MiniMax Latest: 0.0%
- MiniMax M2.7: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- MiniMax Latest: 1,089 EloTop
- MiniMax M2.7: 718 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- MiniMax Latest: 1,243 EloTop
- MiniMax M2.7: 1,008 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- MiniMax Latest: 9.8%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 6.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- MiniMax Latest: 83.0%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 78.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- MiniMax Latest: 4.4%
- MiniMax M2.7: 5.6%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- MiniMax Latest: 39.0%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 29.6%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- MiniMax Latest: 92.9%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 87.4%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- MiniMax Latest: 82.9%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 75.7%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- MiniMax Latest: 2.0%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- MiniMax Latest: 47.1%
- MiniMax M2.7: 50.1%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- MiniMax Latest: 42.4%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 39.4%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- MiniMax Latest: 88.9%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 84.8%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- MiniMax Latest: 83.0%Top
- MiniMax M2.7: 78.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 170.7 tok/s
- Faster than 80% of 251 models
- Time to first token
- 1.2 s
- Quicker than 92% of 251 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 80.3%
- About $0.0854 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.9%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
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-latest",
"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-latest",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)MiniMax
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