MiniMax-01 pricing and routing profile
MiniMax-01 from MiniMax lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens, with a 1,000,192-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.131 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.84 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $2.15 |
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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-01. 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-01 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 Coder Flash | $0.195 / $0.975 | 7% |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | $0.15 / $1.00 | 17% |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.10 / $1.10 | 24% |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.188 / $0.652 | 24% |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | $0.12 / $0.80 | 33% |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | $0.15 / $0.60 | 36% |
Questions
How much does MiniMax-01 cost?
MiniMax-01 lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 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 $0.84 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of MiniMax-01?
1,000,192 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace MiniMax-01?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match MiniMax-01 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.