MiniMax M2.1 API Pricing
MiniMax · Budget · Proprietary · released 2025-12. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-06.
- Input: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.20 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.03
- Context window: 205K
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0010 | $0.000807 | $81 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0016 | $0.0012 | $118 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.0044 | $0.0042 | $417 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.0029 | $0.0028 | $278 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.0033 | $0.0029 | $290 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0012 | $0.0010 | $105 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0014 | $0.0014 | $139 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.0054 | $0.0043 | $427 |
MiniMax M2.1 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-06 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Novita (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| Minimax (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.30 | $1.20 |
Common questions about MiniMax M2.1 pricing
- How much does MiniMax M2.1 cost?
- MiniMax M2.1 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does MiniMax M2.1 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.03/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would MiniMax M2.1 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, MiniMax M2.1 costs about $105 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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