R1 Distill Llama 70B vs MiniMax M1

R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 in and $0.920 out and MiniMax M1 at $0.632 in and $2.53 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

0.53¢

for a client proposal

$0.920 in · $0.920 out / 1M

8K context · released January 2025

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MiniMax M1

MiniMax

0.52¢

for a client proposal

$0.632 in · $2.53 out / 1M

1M context · released June 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: MiniMax M1 at $0.632 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 per million tokens.
Largest context: MiniMax M1 at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.23¢

MiniMax M1

0.25¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.53¢

MiniMax M1

0.52¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 155K ctx

MiniMax M1

$0.11

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 35K ctx

MiniMax M1

2.5¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 250K ctx

MiniMax M1

$0.17

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

R1 Distill Llama 70B

MiniMax M1

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

R1 Distill Llama 70B

MiniMax M1

Input / 1M tokens

$0.920

$0.632

Output / 1M tokens

$0.920

$2.53

Specs

R1 Distill Llama 70B

MiniMax M1

Provider

DeepSeek

MiniMax

Released

January 2025

June 2025

Context window

Max output

40K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-07-31

2024-06-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

0.23¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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MiniMax M1

MiniMax

0.25¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.48¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,035 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, MiniMax M1 has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, MiniMax M1 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.52¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, R1 Distill Llama 70B or MiniMax M1?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): MiniMax M1 at 0.52¢; R1 Distill Llama 70B at 0.53¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

MiniMax M1 — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run R1 Distill Llama 70B and MiniMax M1 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1.1¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.