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MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax · released December 2025

MiniMax M2.1 is a MiniMax model with a 205K token context window — about 290 pages of text. It reads Text and replies in Text. It can show its reasoning before it answers.

$0.345

input / 1M tokens

$1.38

output / 1M tokens

205K

context — about 290 pages

0.28¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$0.345 per million tokens
Output
$1.38 per million tokens
Cached input
$0.035 per million tokens

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
MiniMax
Released
December 2025 (2025-12-23)
Context window
205K tokens — about 290 pages
Max output
131K tokens per reply
Input
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Shows its thinking before answering

Cost vs Token Amount

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

0.14¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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Questions, answered

How much does MiniMax M2.1 cost on Alyph?

MiniMax M2.1 costs $0.345 per million input tokens and $1.38 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.28¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is MiniMax M2.1's context window?

205K tokens — about 290 pages. Replies can be up to 131K tokens long.

Can MiniMax M2.1 read images and files?

MiniMax M2.1 is text-only. The canvas still serializes uploads into plain text, so you can work with files — but it cannot see images.

Does MiniMax M2.1 show its reasoning?

Yes. MiniMax M2.1 can expose its thinking before the final answer, so you can watch how it got there.

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