MiniMax M2.1 Preview
MiniMax
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
MiniMax M2.1 Preview is a MiniMax model released on 22 Dec 2025. Its API price is $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. Its context window is 204.8K tokens. It ranks #188 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1385, read 2 Nov 2026). Source: huggingface.co.
MiniMax M2.1 Preview is LMArena's label for MiniMax-M2.1, which MiniMax released on December 22, 2025. It has a 204.8K-token context window, and MiniMax lists API pricing of $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, in the legacy section of its pricing page. The weights are published under a modified MIT licence, so it can be self-hosted, and on LMArena it holds 1385 Elo (rank 188).
Pricing & specs checkedSource: vendor documentation · checked Oct 29, 2026LMArena: 1385 Elo (rank 188) · source · retrieved Nov 2, 2026
Full Specifications
$0.30 / $1.20 per million tokens | |
|---|---|
| Identity | |
| Developer | MiniMax |
| Released | Dec 2025 |
| Licence | Modified MIT |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $0.525 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.300 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $1.200 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 204.8K tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1385 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 188 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 2638 |