MiniMax-01

MiniMax chatvision Long

API ID: minimax/minimax-01

Input Price
$0.20
/1M tokens
Output Price
$1.10
/1M tokens

About MiniMax-01

MiniMax 01 is MiniMax's flagship language model, delivering strong performance across reasoning, coding, and creative tasks. The model features competitive capability with efficient architecture, enabling practical deployment. MiniMax 01 excels at general conversation, content generation, and analysis tasks. It demonstrates good performance on major benchmarks and supports various enterprise use cases. The model is particularly valuable for applications serving Chinese-speaking markets. For organizations seeking capable AI from a leading Chinese AI company, MiniMax 01 offers reliable performance. It's well-suited for chatbots, content platforms, and business automation.

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Price Ranking
#867 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
1.0M
Max Output
1.0M
Release Date
2025-01-15
Capabilities
chat vision
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.42
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$12.90
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each

MiniMax Model Lineup

Compare all models from MiniMax to find the best fit

Model Input Output Context Capabilities
MiniMax-01 Current $0.20 $1.10 1.0M chat vision
MiniMax M3 (batch) $0.15 $0.60 524k chat reasoning tool_use
MiniMax M2.7 $0.24 $0.96 205k chat reasoning tool_use
MiniMax M2 $0.26 $1.00 205k chat reasoning tool_use
MiniMax M2 $0.26 $1.02 205k chat reasoning tool_use
MiniMax M2.1 $0.27 $0.95 205k chat reasoning tool_use

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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with MiniMax-01 API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/minimax-01",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)