MiniMax M1

by MiniMax

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MiniMax M1 is described by its maker as the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model, featuring 456 billion total parameters with 45.9 billion activated per token. Released in June 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license, it pairs a 1M-token context window with a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts architecture and a Lightning Attention mechanism. The model scores 56.0% on SWE-bench (software engineering) and 86.0% on AIME 2024 (mathematics), and leads open-weight models on tool-use benchmarks such as TAU-bench. At 80K-token reasoning lengths, Lightning Attention uses roughly 30% of the compute that DeepSeek R1 requires, enabling efficient scaling of test-time compute across deep reasoning and long-context tasks. The 80K variant provides an 80,000-token reasoning budget for extended thinking. MiniMax trained M1 with CISPO, a reinforcement learning algorithm it reports converges about twice as fast as alternatives, completing training in three weeks on 512 H800 GPUs.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
1M
Max output
40K
Input price
$0.55 /1M
Output price
$2.20 /1M
Released
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

MiniMax M1 runs on 1 route through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USZero data retentionNo$0.55$2.20

Uptime and availability

MiniMax M1 runs on a single route through the qynio gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

100%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. .

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider qynio monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting MiniMax M1 has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

Novita β€” United StatesπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go β€” no action required. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
wallets

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores β€” composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Intelligence Index17.9
Math Index61.0
Reasoning & knowledge
MMLU-Pro
82%
GPQA Diamond
70%
Humanity's Last Exam
9%
Long-context reasoning
57%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
71%
SciCode
37%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
3%
τ²-Bench Telecom
34%
Math & instruction following
AIME 2025
61%
IFBench
42%

Get started

Call MiniMax M1 through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "novita/minimaxai/minimax-m1-80k",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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