MiniMax M1 pricing and routing profile
MiniMax M1 from MiniMax lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens, with a 1,000,000-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
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Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.262 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $1.68 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $4.30 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for MiniMax M1. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below MiniMax M1 that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 Plus | $0.325 / $1.95 | 15% |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | $0.26 / $2.08 | 20% |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | $0.30 / $1.80 | 21% |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | $0.18 / $2.10 | 29% |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | $0.21 / $1.90 | 30% |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | $0.32 / $1.28 | 31% |
Questions
How much does MiniMax M1 cost?
MiniMax M1 lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $1.68 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of MiniMax M1?
1,000,000 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace MiniMax M1?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match MiniMax M1 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.