Provider pricing
MiniMax AI API pricing
MiniMax has 22 priced models in the public snapshot. For 1,000 input and 500 output tokens, abab6.5t-chat has the lowest recorded request cost at $0.000105, with $0.07 input and $0.07 output per million tokens.
Best for
Multimodal apps, voice products, and ultra-long-context workloads.
Strengths
- 4M token context on MiniMax M2 — the largest in production
- MoE efficiency keeps per-token pricing competitive with mid-tier models
- TTS, voice cloning, image, and video on the same API
- Strong agentic + tool-use benchmarks
Tracked MiniMax models
| Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Tier | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M3 | $0.500 | $2.20 | 4,000,000 | Flagship | Flagship MoE with 4M-token context — agentic reasoning and tool use |
| MiniMax M2 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1,000,000 | Flagship | 230B MoE optimized for agentic coding and end-to-end tool use |
| MiniMax M1 | $0.400 | $2.20 | 1,000,000 | Reasoning | 456B MoE reasoning model with 1M-token context — first open M-series |
| MiniMax Pro | $0.900 | $2.70 | 256,000 | Flagship | Max-capability variant with extended-context reasoning and tool use |
| MiniMax Text-01 | $0.350 | $1.05 | 256,000 | Flagship | Long-context text flagship — strong reasoning and RAG |
| MiniMax VL-01 | $0.450 | $1.35 | 128,000 | Flagship | Vision-language MoE for multimodal reasoning and image understanding |
| abab6.5-chat | $0.300 | $0.300 | 245,000 | Mid-tier | Trillion-parameter MoE chat model with long context |
| abab6.5s-chat | $0.140 | $0.140 | 245,000 | Budget | Lighter, faster abab6.5 sibling for high-volume chat |
| abab6.5t-chat | $0.070 | $0.070 | 8,192 | Budget | Tiny abab6.5 variant for ultra-low-latency apps |
| MiniMax Text-Lite | $0.080 | $0.240 | 128,000 | Budget | Ultra-affordable entry model for chat and high-volume apps |
| MiniMax Speech-2.5 HD | $60.00 | $0 | 5,000 | Flagship | Multilingual expressive TTS (~$0.06/1K chars) — 30+ languages |
| abab7-chat | $0.400 | $0.400 | 256,000 | Mid-tier | Next-gen abab chat model with extended context and stronger reasoning |
| MiniMax M4 | $0.600 | $2.40 | 4,000,000 | Premium | Successor to M3 — 4M context with stronger agentic reasoning |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the MiniMax API cost?
MiniMax has 22 priced models in the public snapshot. For 1,000 input and 500 output tokens, abab6.5t-chat has the lowest recorded request cost at $0.000105, with $0.07 input and $0.07 output per million tokens.
Which MiniMax model is cheapest?
abab6.5t-chat is the lowest-cost recorded model for the 1,000-input/500-output example. Prices are $0.07 input and $0.07 output per million tokens; different workloads may change the ranking.
Does MiniMax have cached or batch prices?
Cached input: not separately recorded. Batch: not recorded in this dataset. Eligibility and cache-write charges depend on the provider; these discounts are not automatically stacked.
How often are provider prices verified?
The live pricing table synchronizes stored model records daily; public file snapshots update when the site is rebuilt. Synchronization is not independent provider verification. Snapshot updated 2026-10-31; only explicit per-model dates are verification records.