MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax minimax-m2-1

Model Information
Slug minimax-m2-1
Release Date December 23, 2025
Aliases minimax-m2.1 minimax-m2-1
Organization
Name MiniMax
Description

MiniMax-M2.1 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated parameters, it delivers a major jump in real-world capability while maintaining exceptional latency, scalability, and cost efficiency. Compared to its predecessor, M2.1 delivers cleaner, more concise outputs and faster perceived response times. It shows leading multilingual coding performance across major systems and application languages, achieving 49.4% on Multi-SWE-Bench and 72.5% on SWE-Bench Multilingual, and serves as a versatile agent “brain” for IDEs, coding tools, and general-purpose assistance. To avoid degrading this model's performance, MiniMax highly recommends preserving reasoning between turns. Learn more about using reasoning_details to pass back reasoning in our [docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#preserving-reasoning-blocks). Context: 196608

Available at 10 Providers
Provider Input Price ($/1M) Output Price ($/1M) Free
OpenCode Zen $0.00 $0.00
OpenRouter $0.28 $1.20
AIHubMix $0.29 $1.15
Hugging Face $0.30 $1.20
MiniMax $0.30 $1.20
MiniMax (China) $0.30 $1.20
ZenMux $0.30 $1.20
Synthetic $0.55 $2.19
NanoGPT $1.00 $2.00
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