MiniMax LLM API Models & Pricing

Browse MiniMax LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.

14Models tracked
14Priced models
1Popular models
2Latest releases

Provider shortlist

Use MiniMax as a model-level shortlist, not a single default choice.

Start from the cost, context, and popularity picks below, then open the model pages or head-to-head comparisons before choosing an API.

Cost pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free) $0 sample workload
Context pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash 1.05M context window
Popular pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash #8 popularity signal
When to avoid Verify model fit Do not choose by provider name alone. Compare model-level input price, output price, context window, release timing, and current availability before production use.

MiniMax comparisons

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ComparisonSample Cost WinnerLarger ContextNewest Release
🔥Claude Opus 5.5 vs New🔥MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax M3.1 Flash
New🔥DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs New🔥MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax M3.1 FlashTie
🔥DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs New🔥MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax M3.1 FlashTie
🔥GLM 5.3 Flash vs New🔥MiniMax M3.1 FlashGLM 5.3 FlashTie
🔥GPT-6 Luna vs New🔥MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax M3.1 FlashGPT-6 Luna
🔥Hy4 preview vs New🔥MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax M3.1 FlashTie
New🔥Kimi K3.1 Pro vs New🔥MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax M3.1 FlashTie
New🔥MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs 🔥Step 5 PreviewMiniMax M3.1 FlashTie

Cross-Provider Alternatives

Open alternatives hub

Use this shortlist when MiniMax is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.

AlternativeProviderSample CostInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
NewCrouton Alphastealth$0$0$01.05M
NewFlint (free)Recursive$0$0$0262.14K
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)XingChen$0$0$0262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)Apodex$0$0$0262.14K
Space Bunny Alphastealth$0$0$01M

MiniMax model catalog

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ModelPromptOutputContextPopularity
New🔥MiniMax M3.1 Flash$0.075$0.31.05M#8
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)$0$01M
MiniMax M3$0.3$1.21.05M
MiniMax M3 (batch)$0.3$1.2524.29K
MiniMax M3 (free)$0$01.05M
MiniMax M2.7$0.3$1.2204.8K
MiniMax M2.7 (free)$0$0196.61K
MiniMax M2.5$0.27$0.95204.8K
MiniMax M2.5 (free)$0$0204.8K
MiniMax M2-her$0.3$1.265.54K
MiniMax M2.1$0.3$1.2204.8K
MiniMax M2$0.255$1.02204.8K
MiniMax M1$0.55$2.21M
MiniMax-01$0.2$1.11M