MiniMax M2.1 Lightning API Pricing

MiniMax M2.1 Lightning pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What MiniMax M2.1 Lightning costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

MiniMax M2.1 Lightning features

• Function calling
• Reasoning
• Prompt caching

Use MiniMax M2.1 Lightning with LiteLLM

Call MiniMax M2.1 Lightning through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="minimax/MiniMax-M2.1-lightning",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: minimax-m2.1-lightning
    litellm_params:
      model: minimax/MiniMax-M2.1-lightning
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "minimax-m2.1-lightning",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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• MiniMax M2.7$0.25 / $1 per 1M tokens
• MiniMax M2.5$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M tokens
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• MiniMax M2.1$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M tokens
• MiniMax M2$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M tokens