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MiniMax: MiniMax M1 API Pricing
MiniMax: MiniMax M1 costs $0.550 per 1M input tokens and $2.20 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 1M. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.550
Output / 1M tokens
$2.20
Context window
1M
Max output
40K
What would MiniMax: MiniMax M1 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $13.20 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $44.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $99.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $26.40 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About MiniMax: MiniMax M1
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...
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