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MiniMax-M1
OPENMiniMax · MiniMax-M1 family · released Jun 16, 2025
World's first open-weight large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model; shipped as two checkpoints (40K/80K thinking budget) - this entry reflects the flagship 80K checkpoint.
ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
1567.3
Elo · rank #108
Parameters
456B
Active params
45.9B (MoE)
Context
1M tokens
Architecture
Hybrid Lightning+Softmax Attention MoE (80 layers, 32 experts top-2) reasoning model, trained with CISPO RL
License
Apache-2.0
Languages
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API price (in/out)
$0.4 / $2.2
Modalities
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Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
best: GPT-5.2 · 100.0%
best: GPT-5.6 · 94.6%
best: Claude Sonnet 5 · 57.4%
best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%
best: GPT-5 · 99.4%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 91.5%
best: GPT-4.5 · 62.5%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 95.0%
best: Claude Opus 4.1 · 82.4%
Run it locally
VRAM @ Q4
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VRAM @ FP16
912 GB
Fits on (Q4)
Multi-node cluster required
llama.cpp did not support the MiniMaxM1ForCausalLM architecture at release, so no GGUF/Q4 quant or RTX 4090 figure exists.
Quantizations
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API price $0.4/$2.2 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)