MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1

Released Dec 23, 2025

minimax/minimax-m2.1

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MiniMax-M2.1 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated parameters, it delivers a major jump in real-world...

Best overall rank

#46

▼ 2 vs 7d ago

Total arena votes

133,528

Across 33 (subset, category) entries

Providers on OR

Minimax + others

First seen

2026-05-08

61 days tracked

Trend

Pricing

Per token

Input (per 1M): $0.300
Output (per 1M): $1.20
Cache Read (per 1M): $0.030

Capabilities

Modality

text->text

Context

205K tokens

Tokenizer

Other

Max output

131K tokens

Moderation

Unmoderated

Hugging Face

MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1

Supported parameters

frequency_penalty

include_reasoning

max_tokens

presence_penalty

reasoning

repetition_penalty

response_format

seed

stop

temperature

tool_choice

tools

top_k

top_p

Providers

Provider	Region / Tag	Context	Input/M	Output/M	Uptime 1d	Latency	Quant	Cache
Minimax	`minimax/fp8`	205K	$0.300	$1.20	99.72%	-	fp8	-
Minimax	`minimax/highspeed`	205K	$0.300	$2.40	99.60%	-	fp8	-
Novita	`novita/fp8`	205K	$0.300	$1.20	99.55%	-	fp8	-

Per-category ranks

Text

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#100	Industry Mathematical	-	1419	651
#104	Expert	-	1431	1,053
#117	German	-	1380	268
#118	Longer Query	-	1410	4,250
#123	French	-	1405	398
#126	Coding	-	1439	3,421
#126	Hard Prompts English	-	1424	4,192
#126	Instruction Following	-	1385	4,467
#129	Russian	-	1383	1,916
#130	Chinese	-	1414	822
#131	Spanish	-	1378	405
#134	Industry Legal And Government	-	1398	1,185
#134	Polish	-	1365	508
#135	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	-	1350	3,202
#135	Math	-	1392	1,008
#135	Multi Turn	-	1391	2,871
#136	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	-	1406	2,654
#136	Industry Software And It Services	-	1423	5,782
#137	Hard Prompts	-	1407	9,056
#138	English	-	1402	7,628
#139	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	-	1381	3,144
#140	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	-	1365	3,919
#142	Overall	-	1384	17,112
#143	Creative Writing	-	1346	2,714
#144	Non English	-	1365	9,484
#145	Exclude Ties	-	1357	12,069
#145	Japanese	-	1280	147
#158	Korean	-	1277	267
#167	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	-	1375	1,125

WebDev

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#44	Webdev-html	-	1404	6,772
#46	Overall	-	1391	9,273
#46	Webdev	-	1391	9,273
#48	Webdev-react	-	1373	2,492

Provider

Region / Tag

Context

Input/M

Output/M

Uptime 1d

Latency

Quant

Cache

Minimax

minimax/fp8

205K

$0.300

$1.20

99.72%

fp8

Minimax

minimax/highspeed

205K

$0.300

$2.40

99.60%

fp8

Novita

novita/fp8

205K

$0.300

$1.20

99.55%

fp8

Per-category ranks

Text

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#100	Industry Mathematical	-	1419	651
#104	Expert	-	1431	1,053
#117	German	-	1380	268
#118	Longer Query	-	1410	4,250
#123	French	-	1405	398
#126	Coding	-	1439	3,421
#126	Hard Prompts English	-	1424	4,192
#126	Instruction Following	-	1385	4,467
#129	Russian	-	1383	1,916
#130	Chinese	-	1414	822
#131	Spanish	-	1378	405
#134	Industry Legal And Government	-	1398	1,185
#134	Polish	-	1365	508
#135	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	-	1350	3,202
#135	Math	-	1392	1,008
#135	Multi Turn	-	1391	2,871
#136	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	-	1406	2,654
#136	Industry Software And It Services	-	1423	5,782
#137	Hard Prompts	-	1407	9,056
#138	English	-	1402	7,628
#139	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	-	1381	3,144
#140	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	-	1365	3,919
#142	Overall	-	1384	17,112
#143	Creative Writing	-	1346	2,714
#144	Non English	-	1365	9,484
#145	Exclude Ties	-	1357	12,069
#145	Japanese	-	1280	147
#158	Korean	-	1277	267
#167	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	-	1375	1,125

WebDev

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#44	Webdev-html	-	1404	6,772
#46	Overall	-	1391	9,273
#46	Webdev	-	1391	9,273
#48	Webdev-react	-	1373	2,492