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MiniMax M1 benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place MiniMax M1, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 6, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 6, 2026

#95of 126

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 36 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places MiniMax M1

Artificial Analysis

#81of 115

Score 11.7. Best run: minimax/minimax-m1.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#84of 115

Score 1364. Best run: minimax-m1.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$0.96

OpenRouter: $0.55 in, $2.20 out Context window 1M tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of MiniMax M1

  1. #92Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 250736
  2. #93GLM 4.6V36
  3. #94Qwen3 32B36
  4. #95MiniMax M136
  5. #96o3 Mini High36
  6. #97Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking36
  7. #98Mistral Small 435

Questions about MiniMax M1

How good is MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 ranks #95 of 126 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 36 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is MiniMax M1 better than Qwen3 32B?
Not on the consensus: Qwen3 32B scores 36 to MiniMax M1's 36. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is MiniMax M1 better than o3 Mini High?
On the consensus, yes: 36 to 36.
How much does MiniMax M1 cost?
$0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.96 per million.

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