MiniMax M1
minimax/minimax-m1
MiniMax M1 is a text-to-text model with a context length of 1,000,000 tokens. It supports tool use and reasoning, and is an open-weight model. Pricing is $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens.
- tool use
- reasoning
- open-weight
At a glance
Specifications
What the API gives you
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 40K tokens
- Input price
- $0.55 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $2.20 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
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- Modalities
- text → text
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 30, 2024
- Released
- Jan 8, 2025
Measured evidence
Public benchmark record
- LMArena Creative Writing
- 1297 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Instruction Following
- 1312 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Long Query
- 1326 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Math
- 1361 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Text
- 1364 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Text Factuality
- 1370 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference.
Task evidence
How broad is the support?
Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.
- Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Show all 25 tasks
- Best LLM for a General AssistantProvisional evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingProvisional evidence
36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Math & ReasoningProvisional evidence
28% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI). 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence
27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Competition MathProvisional evidence
26% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI). 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Value LLMProvisional evidence
25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence
22% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Grounded RAGProvisional evidence
14% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from CRAG or SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI). 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Recommendation coverage
Where this model appears
Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.
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