MiniMax M2.1 Lightning pricing.
Prices checked
MiniMax M2.1 Lightning costs $0.30 in and $2.40 out per million tokens from MiniMax; the cheapest price is $0.21 at LLM Gateway, checked .
MiniMax's own price
MiniMax
$0.30 in · $2.40 out
7% below the typical price of the 399 text models we track.
Cheapest price
LLM Gateway
$0.12 in · $0.48 out
75% less than MiniMax, and the provider says why.
Every provider selling MiniMax M2.1 Lightning
What it costs for your work
A month at MiniMax's own price
A month at LLM Gateway, the cheapest
What you save
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
How we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below MiniMax's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Resells
- The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what MiniMax M2.1 Lightning does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against MiniMax M2.1 Lightning's cheapest price, $0.21 per M tokens.
Frequently asked
- Who sells MiniMax M2.1 Lightning cheapest?
- LLM Gateway, at $0.12 in and $0.48 out per million tokens, checked 21 Oct 2026. The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Is MiniMax M2.1 Lightning open weights?
- Yes. MiniMax publishes the weights, so anyone may host MiniMax M2.1 Lightning, which is why 3 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does MiniMax M2.1 Lightning hold?
- 196,608 tokens in one call, which is about 197k.
- How does MiniMax M2.1 Lightning compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.82 per million tokens, MiniMax's own price is 7% below the typical $0.89 across the 399 text models we track.
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