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MiniMaxReleased January 15, 2025

MiniMax-01

Open Source#11 Arena Rank456B parameters

MiniMax-01 holds a solid spot in the Arena rankings at #11. Context window: 0.004K tokens.

Context

4M

Input

$0.50

Key Specifications

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Arena Rank

#11

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Context Window

4M

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Input Price

per 1M tokens

$0.50

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Output Price

per 1M tokens

$1.10

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Parameters

456B

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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

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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?▾
Input pricing for MiniMax-01 is $0.50 per million tokens; output runs $1.10. Token-based pricing means you can scale up or down without a fixed commitment.
What is MiniMax-01's context window?▾
The context window for MiniMax-01 is 4M tokens. That's the maximum amount of text you can feed into a single prompt, including system instructions, conversation history, and the actual query.
Is MiniMax-01 open source?▾
MiniMax-01 is fully open source. You can grab the weights, run it on your own hardware, and fine-tune it for specific tasks. That flexibility is a big deal for teams with strict data requirements.
What is MiniMax-01 best for?▾
The sweet spot for MiniMax-01 is: Ultra-long context, document analysis. If your workload fits one of these categories, it's worth benchmarking against alternatives.