MiniMax Pricing
Versatile AI with large context windows and competitive pricing.
Cost optimization across the full model lineup
Every model below is available at up to 70% lower cost than official pricing. Pay-as-you-go, no credit card.
All MiniMax Models
MiniMax M3MiniMax M2.7MiniMax Pricing Guide
How MiniMax pricing scales
Input pricing varies 0% across the lineup ($0.30 → $0.30/1M). At 1M requests/month with ~1K input tokens, the cheapest variant costs roughly $0.30 while the flagship runs $0.30 — a 0% gap that compounds fast at scale. Output-token pricing follows the same tiering, so long-form generation amplifies the difference.
Which variant to pick
MiniMax leans into reasoning and math, with 2 active variants priced $0.30–$0.30/1M input. The reasoning-tuned models suit multi-step logic and STEM tasks; use the lighter variants for throughput where step-by-step thinking isn't required.
MiniMax notes
MiniMax sits in the General Purpose category. Versatile AI with large context windows and competitive pricing. The 1M maximum context window (on MiniMax M3) is the largest in this lineup — enough to ingest entire codebases or long documents in one call.
Cost in practice
Real-world fit: MiniMax variants power document-understanding apps — OCR-free receipt parsing, screenshot-to-code, and visual Q&A. Cheaper vision variants handle high-volume extraction; the flagship tackles nuanced visual reasoning.