MiniMaxReleased January 15, 2025

MiniMax-01

Open Source#11 Arena Rank456B parameters

Context

4M

Input

$0.50

Key Specifications

🏆

Arena Rank

#11

📐

Context Window

4M

📥

Input Price

per 1M tokens

$0.50

📤

Output Price

per 1M tokens

$1.10

🧠

Parameters

456B

🔓

Open Source

Yes

Best For

Ultra-long contextdocument analysis

About MiniMax-01

MiniMax-01 is a revolutionary model featuring the world's largest production context window at 4 million tokens — enough to process dozens of books or an entire codebase in a single request. Developed by Chinese AI company MiniMax, it achieves this through an innovative linear attention mechanism called Lightning Attention that maintains performance at extreme context lengths without the quadratic cost of standard transformers. With 456 billion total parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture, it delivers competitive quality while offering remarkably affordable pricing. The model has been open-sourced, allowing researchers and developers to study and build upon its long-context innovations. MiniMax-01 is particularly suited for document analysis, legal review, codebase understanding, and any task requiring processing of very large text inputs.

Pricing per 1M tokens

Input Tokens

$0.50

Output Tokens

$1.10

Compare MiniMax-01

See how MiniMax-01 stacks up against other leading AI models

MiniMax-01 vs Hailuo AICompare →MiniMax-01 vs Claude Opus 4Compare →MiniMax-01 vs GPT-o3Compare →MiniMax-01 vs GPT-4oCompare →MiniMax-01 vs GPT-o1Compare →

Other MiniMax Models

Hailuo AI
N/A (video)

Other Top Models

Claude Opus 4Anthropic
#1
GPT-o3OpenAI
#2
GPT-4oOpenAI
#2
GPT-o1OpenAI
#3
DeepSeek R1DeepSeek
#3
Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic
#3

Explore More

Model Benchmarks →All Models →

Frequently Asked Questions

What is MiniMax-01?▾
MiniMax-01 is a revolutionary model featuring the world's largest production context window at 4 million tokens — enough to process dozens of books or an entire codebase in a single request. Developed by Chinese AI company MiniMax, it achieves this through an innovative linear attention mechanism called Lightning Attention that maintains performance at extreme context lengths without the quadratic cost of standard transformers. With 456 billion total parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture, it delivers competitive quality while offering remarkably affordable pricing. The model has been open-sourced, allowing researchers and developers to study and build upon its long-context innovations. MiniMax-01 is particularly suited for document analysis, legal review, codebase understanding, and any task requiring processing of very large text inputs.
How much does MiniMax-01 cost?▾
MiniMax-01 costs $0.50 per 1 million input tokens and $1.10 per 1 million output tokens. Pricing is based on token usage, making it cost-effective for both small and large-scale applications.
What is MiniMax-01's context window?▾
MiniMax-01 has a context window of 4M tokens. This determines how much text the model can process in a single request — larger context windows allow the model to handle longer documents, maintain more conversation history, and reason over bigger codebases.
Is MiniMax-01 open source?▾
Yes, MiniMax-01 is open source. This means the model weights are publicly available, allowing developers and organizations to download, fine-tune, and self-host the model on their own infrastructure. Open-source models offer greater flexibility and data privacy control.
What is MiniMax-01 best for?▾
MiniMax-01 is best suited for: Ultra-long context, document analysis. These use cases leverage the model's specific strengths in terms of capability, speed, and cost-effectiveness within MiniMax's model lineup.