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MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 Lightning

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MiniMax M2.1 Lightning is the speed-oriented serving tier of MiniMax M2.1, MiniMax's lightweight, state-of-the-art model for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated parameters, it delivers a major jump in real-world capability while maintaining exceptional latency, scalability, and cost efficiency; the Lightning tier prioritises fast responses, charging a premium on output tokens in exchange for lower latency. It supports reasoning, function calling, prompt caching, and web search. Context: 200K tokens, output: 131K. Available via OpenAI and Anthropic protocols.

Context Window
205K
Max Output Tokens
131K
Released
2025-12-23
Capabilities
Function CallingReasoningPrompt CachingWeb Search
Available Providers
MiniMax
Supported Protocols
openaianthropic

Pricing

TypePrice
Input Tokens$0.3/M
Output Tokens$2.4/M
Cache Read$0.03/M
Cache Write$0.375/M

Code Examples

from openai import OpenAI


client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.ofox.ai/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_OFOX_API_KEY",
)


response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/minimax-m2.1-lightning",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ],
)


print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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Frequently Asked Questions

MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 Lightning on Ofox.ai costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.4 per million output tokens. Pay-as-you-go, no monthly fees.