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Shanghai lab shipping the M-series text models alongside its Hailuo video and speech products.

Current version

M2.1

Entry cost

Free tier, API from $0.30/M input

Changes / 30d

1

Capabilities

  • Interleaved thinking
  • Tool calling
  • Open weights
  • Long context

Pricing

  • Free

    Free

  • API input /M

    $0.3

  • API output /M

    $1.2

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • MiniMax-M2.1

    MiniMax

    disclosed

Context window

204K tokens

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • Open weights
  • MoE architecture

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

  • MiniMax-M2.1MiniMax · 1 product

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • version

    M2.1 released with interleaved thinking traces

    M2M2.1

    source