MiniMax · Open weights
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax M2.1 builds on M2 with enhanced context understanding and improved complex tool use. 230B parameter MoE model (10B active) optimized for agentic workflows and long-horizon tasks.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $1.20
- Cache read
- $0.03
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 200K
- Max output
- 131.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 359 tokens
- Longer than 37% of 465 models
Side by side
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
20.9
Better than 51% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
82.7Composite of the math evaluations
Better than 75% of 118 scored models
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
67.7%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 44% of 309 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
23.2%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 52% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
83.0%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 54% of 291 scored models
MMLU-Pro
87.5%Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
Better than 98% of 132 scored models
IFBench
69.9%Following precise output instructions
Better than 71% of 215 scored models
Coding
LiveCodeBench
81.0%Recent competitive programming problems
Better than 89% of 129 scored models
Math
AIME 2025
82.7%Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
Better than 75% of 118 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
28.8%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 53% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
85.4%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 69% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
67.7%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 44% of 309 scored models
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-m2.1",
"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-m2.1",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)MiniMax
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