MiniMax: MiniMax M2 API Pricing — $0.255 Input / $1.02 Output per 1M Tokens

MiniMax: MiniMax M2 by Minimax — $0.255 input / $1.02 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 204K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens
$0.255
Output / 1M tokens
$1.02
Provider
Minimax
Context window
204K tokens
Via
OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage Daily Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)$0.140$4.21
Small app (1K/day)$0.765$22.95
Mid-scale (10K/day)$10.20$306.00
Large scale (100K/day)$229.50$6885.00
Model ID: minimax/minimax-m2
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

About MiniMax: MiniMax M2

MiniMax: MiniMax M2 is an LLM developed by Minimax. Input costs $0.255 per million tokens and output costs $1.02 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 204K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

  • Input tokens: $0.255 per 1 million tokens
  • Output tokens: $1.02 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does MiniMax: MiniMax M2 Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

  • Daily cost: $0.7650
  • Monthly cost: $22.950

Accessing MiniMax: MiniMax M2 via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including MiniMax: MiniMax M2. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is minimax/minimax-m2.

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