MiniMax API pricing
MiniMax M3, the MiniMax flagship, costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. MiniMax’s other current models, per million input / output tokens: MiniMax M3.1 Flash $0.15 / $0.60.
MiniMax Code has a free plan, and its paid plans are Go ($22/mo), Explore ($55/mo) and Build ($132/mo). MiniMax Code monthly plans
| MiniMax M3 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.30 | $0.15 |
| Output | $1.20 | $0.60 |
| Cache read | $0.06 | $0.015 |
US dollars per million tokens. List prices read 12 November 2026 from MiniMax.
What the film says
- Right now, every call to Claude or GPT costs you list price.
- The bill grows with every user you add.
- The same models. Up to 75% below list.
- One endpoint forClaude, GPT, Gemini and Grok
- $100 of API credit for $25. Savings vary by model. No model costs more than list.
- API creditClaude, GPT, Gemini and Grok models through one endpoint, on prepaid credit. $25. Start today.
Per token and per pass
The list price per million tokens, then how many of the benchmark’s 20 office tasks each model passed and what 1,000 passing answers cost, failed runs included.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Tasks passed | 1,000 passes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M3Flagships | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.06 | 1M | 15 of 20 | $1.82 |
| MiniMax M3.1 FlashSmall and fast | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | 1M | · | · |
To see what your own workload costs on every model, use the LLM API cost calculator.
MiniMax Code monthly plans
Consumer and team subscription plans published by MiniMax for MiniMax Code.
| Plan | Monthly price | Models included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | Not published |
| Go | $22/mo ($18.33/mo billed yearly) | Not published |
| Explore | $55/mo ($45.83/mo billed yearly) | Not published |
| Build | $132/mo ($110/mo billed yearly) | Not published |
minimax.io/m-plan · Read 20 October 2026. Prices can differ by country and include or exclude tax depending on the country.
MiniMax prices the 2 models on our list from MiniMax M3.1 Flash at $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens to MiniMax M3 at $0.30 in and $1.20 out. On the AIGROW small-business benchmark MiniMax M3 had the best record, 15 of 20 tasks passed, at $1.82 per thousand passes.
What three everyday jobs cost
1,000 runs of each job at list price. The token counts are ours; the prices are MiniMax’s.
| Model | 1,000 × support reply | 1,000 × document summary | 1,000 × agent task |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M3 | $1.38 | $8.70 | $10.80 |
| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | $0.69 | $4.35 | $4.35 |
- Support reply
- A 3,000-token prompt (the ticket, the thread so far and a policy excerpt) and a 400-token answer.
- Document summary
- A 40-page document of about 25,000 tokens in, a 1,000-token summary out.
- Agent task
- Ten steps that read 80,000 tokens between them, 70,000 of them context repeated from step to step and served from cache, and write 3,000.
The small print
What MiniMax’s pricing pages add to the headline rates.
- MiniMax M3
- Shown as a 'Permanent 50% off' price (struck-out $0.60 / $2.40), recorded as the list price. Above 512K input: $0.60 / $2.40, cache read $0.12. Priority tier 1.5x. Open weights (self-host guide on the official docs, MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 on Hugging Face).
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- MiniMax pitches it as an efficient open-weight model for everyday work, next to MiniMax M3, which remains available. Release date is the MiniMax launch post date.
A price page for each MiniMax model
Head to head
The comparisons with a MiniMax model on one side, each with both prices and the three jobs costed on each.
Where the prices come from
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Weigh MiniMax against every other maker
The price list sets the models of 11 makers side by side: input and output price per million tokens, and what three everyday jobs cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date · See the LLM leaderboard