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MiniMax M2.1 benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place MiniMax M2.1, 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

#74of 126

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 46 across 2 leaderboards.

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

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places MiniMax M2.1

Artificial Analysis

#54of 115

Score 20.9. Best run: minimax/minimax-m2.1.

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

#76of 115

Score 1384. Best run: minimax-m2.1-preview.

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

$0.52

OpenRouter: $0.30 in, $1.20 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.30 in, $1.20 out Context window 205K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of MiniMax M2.1

  1. #71R147
  2. #72Claude Sonnet 446
  3. #73Grok 4.346
  4. #74MiniMax M2.146
  5. #75Qwen3.5-35B-A3B46
  6. #76mistral-medium-250846
  7. #77o144

Questions about MiniMax M2.1

How good is MiniMax M2.1?
MiniMax M2.1 ranks #74 of 126 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 46 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is MiniMax M2.1 better than Grok 4.3?
Not on the consensus: Grok 4.3 scores 46 to MiniMax M2.1's 46. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is MiniMax M2.1 better than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?
On the consensus, yes: 46 to 46.
How much does MiniMax M2.1 cost?
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.52 per million.

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