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MiniMax M1

by Minimax

MiniMax-M1 is a large-scale, open-weight reasoning model designed for extended context and high-efficiency inference. It leverages a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture pa

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MiniMax M1

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

MiniMax-M1 is a large-scale, open-weight reasoning model designed for extended context and high-efficiency inference. It leverages a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture paired with a custom "lightning attention" mechanism, allowing it...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `minimax/minimax-m1`.

  • openrouter · minimax/minimax-m1 Docs

OpenRouter id: minimax/minimax-m1

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 11.7 index

Notes

MiniMax M1 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much MiniMax M1 is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
98.7M ▲80.9%
Requests, last 7 days
12.4K
Tool calls, last 7 days
870
Intelligence score
11.7
People's vote
1343
Average cost per request
2.3¢
Price per million tokens
$0.55 in · $2.2 out
0100M200M19 Sept: 1.9M tokens, 1.3K requests20 Sept: 1.2M tokens, 1.2K requests21 Sept: 32.3M tokens, 3.7K requests22 Sept: 199M tokens, 35.2K requests23 Sept: 69M tokens, 15.8K requests24 Sept: 40.2M tokens, 14.3K requests25 Sept: 41.3M tokens, 17.4K requests26 Sept: 13.6M tokens, 1.5K requests27 Sept: 2.5M tokens, 1.4K requests28 Sept: 7.9M tokens, 1.4K requests29 Sept: 5.2M tokens, 1.5K requests30 Sept: 19.9M tokens, 2K requests1 Oct: 3.1M tokens, 1.8K requests2 Oct: 6.7M tokens, 1.6K requests3 Oct: 19.3M tokens, 2K requests4 Oct: 32.4M tokens, 2K requests5 Oct: 170M tokens, 4.3K requests6 Oct: 10.1M tokens, 1.9K requests7 Oct: 43.1M tokens, 2.4K requests8 Oct: 2.6M tokens, 1.7K requests9 Oct: 32.8M tokens, 1.7K requests10 Oct: 4.7M tokens, 1.6K requests11 Oct: 3.3M tokens, 1.7K requests12 Oct: 2.8M tokens, 1.5K requests13 Oct: 6.1M tokens, 2.2K requests14 Oct: 2.2M tokens, 1.6K requests15 Oct: 17.1M tokens, 2.7K requests16 Oct: 21M tokens, 1.5K requests17 Oct: 1.8M tokens, 1.3K requests18 Oct: 21.6M tokens, 2.5K requests19 Oct: 4.5M tokens, 1.4K requests20 Oct: 2.2M tokens, 1.5K requests21 Oct: 30.5M tokens, 1.5K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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